What's Up At Christof's

[christof]

Thank you Vic.

 

I think I am in Duofold-Love currently... Here my newest acquisition. A RHR Senior with box. Directly from FPN member Speerbob. Thanks Bob!

 

 

 

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C.

Edited March 30, 2016 by christof

[Dickkooty2]

Re:

 

No space left...

 

 

 

 

C.

... a lovely pocketful. Better than a silk pocket square any day!

[Dickkooty2]

Now that's a cool bunny!!

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj157/dick168/Scan%2031_zpssugsf9bk.jpeg

[Dickkooty2]

 

HAPPY EASTER!

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj157/dick168/Scan%2031_zpssugsf9bk.jpeg

[Soot]

No space left...

 

 

C.

 

Love these pocket shots of yours! Wonderfully displayed!

[christof]

Thank you B. ... reminds me to buy a new jacket when find the time.

 

C.

Edited March 31, 2016 by christof

[DrCodfish]

A mandarin! This is a pen that is high on my Lust List, but also a budget buster!

[christof]

It's a "Special" size, length of Senior and diameter of junior.

The yellow plastic is brittle, so I never will use it.

 

 

I had the luck finding it on a fleamarket and didn't pay to much...

 

C.

Edited April 1, 2016 by christof

[penrivers]

Thank you B. ... reminds me to buy a new jacket when find the time.

 

C.

Yea, corduroy with elbow patch.

[tenney]

Christof, jumping back months... take a look for "wifi sd card" such as Eyefi, or "Toshiba 32GB FlashAir III Wireless SD Memory Card" for an SD Card in your camera that has built-in wifi to your iPad with no cable.

[christof]

Glenn

Thanks for the hint. Sounds like a great idea. Will have a look at.

C.

[christof]

Got a new pen. Nothing breathtaking spectacular... just another Lamy Safari. It's the 2016 special edition called "Dark Lilac".

 

 

Actually, I do not collect these yearly new colored Safari but I had to have this because it is, since long, a new color in textured/Matte surface, matching perfectly to the very early Safari like Savanna, Terra and Charcoal. This pen looks like a self evident extension of the early colors.

 

 

I really like this!

 

C.

Edited April 7, 2016 by christof

[mehandiratta]

Got a new pen. Nothing breathtaking spectacular... just another Lamy Safari. It's the 2016 special edition called "Dark Lilac".

 

 

Actually, I do not collect these yearly new colored Safari but I had to have this because it is, since long, a new color in textured/Matte surface, matching perfectly to the very early Safari like Savanna, Terra and Charcoal. This pen looks like a self evident extension of the early colors.

 

 

I really like this!

 

C.

all 4 textured ones look amazing...

[christof]

Actually, there is a fifth, the Griso (and even a sixt*), but I decided to do the picture without because the color doesn't match to the four that well...

 

*Alpin white came in a textured surface as well, but not on regular basis.

 

C.

[mehandiratta]

u r an amazing collector...

[DrCodfish]

Good photography makes all the difference.

[christof]

Got an interesting new pen:



The Seneca looks like a German student pen from early 1930's. It's well but economic made. Some sources from the internet say that Seneca was a subbrand of Soennecken. Although there is no proof for this, there is a certain similarity to this early Rheingold from 1930:



Would be interested in learning more about...

C.

Edited April 18, 2016 by christof

[markiv]

Very nice find indeed.

Striking similarities in style on the captop, turning knob, clip, section shape...

Does it have filler like Rheingolds?

[christof]

No, it's a button filler.

C.

[christof]

I just made an observation, I wantetd to ad to another post of mine. Maybe you remember this post:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/220855-whats-up-at-christofs/?p=3568755

 

I was showing a strange Pelikan 300 there. This one:

 

 

Not the color of the blind cap and clip screw was the most strange thing about. It was the short ink window on the plain black barrel. I had not seen this on a Pelikan until then....I thought.

 

I was wrong! I have seen this before, but not on a plain black barrel but instead on a light tortoise one. Have a look at the comparison below. The inkwindows of the strange 300 and the light tortoise 400 are almost identical:

 

from top down;

1. Pelikan 400 light tortoise

2. "strange" Pelikan 300

3. Pelikan 400 solid black

 

 

This makes me think that at least the barrel of this pen is not a fake, and if the barrel is odd, but original, why not the whole pen? Just my thoughts...

 

C.

Edited May 16, 2016 by christof