If you had $500 to spend on pens

[RyanL27]

I'd buy one, really nice pen...but I'm not sure which one.

 

It would definitely be Italian - maybe an Omas, maybe a Stipula, maybe that Signum Nova I just passed up for my new Bexley (which should come Monday or Tuesday )

[Johnson]

QUOTE (MikeLip @ Mar 1 2007, 03:46 PM)

My bad - M200 demonstrator! Very nice pen. Cool transparent blue!

Oh, I already have one of those. Yes, it is a very pretty pen.

[rbbrock]

I would be seriously tempted to spring for that Omas Arco milord from Pam Braun that I'm lusting over. However, practicality might win out and result in the purchase of an M200 blue demo with a custom stub (14k) from Mr. B. for ~$140, and the remaining would go to either a Stipula Etruria, a Pel M1000, or a Bexley Americana and a Signum Carina.

 

Wow, I want too many pens.

 

*edit: I failed spelling in school, and it has haunted me ever since

Edited March 7, 2007 by rbbrock

[Latro21]

i picked 10+

 

i would get a pilot VP [plus a binder nib or two], namiki falcon, a bunch of $5-$30 hero's, lamy 2000, pelikan m215 [plus a binder nib or two], a parker vac, a couple vintage flex pens [prolly esterbrook], a "51", a sheaffer imperial touchdown, a snorkel or two....

 

of course the vintage pens wouldnt be top quality collectors items, just very nice users, you know, not all scratched up and beat to hell, but function and write perfectly.

 

i just like pens that i will be able to ink and use and that will always be there to write right when i need it to, but also look good. i enjoy checking out the super expensive pens, but i dont really plan on owning any since i have no reason to. more than likely ill be keeping under a $200 per pen price limit, though im sure there will be an exception or two [cough*nakaya*cough], but not for a very, very, very long time.

Edited March 2, 2007 by Latro21

[howaboutthat41]

Two, or preferably three, Waterman LeMan Rhapsody (and/or LeMan 100) fountain pens.

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

I'd fill up my stock racks with Pelikans.

 

I'm done getting pens for myself already.

 

Dillon

[æon]

I'd probably try to find an Omas Paragon in the blue celluloid, with a nice fine nib. Failing that, a Nakaya portable Shu with a clip. Or perhaps a 146 and a vintage Conway Stewart 58 Duro (marbled blue). Or perhaps some other Italian celluloid.......

[cowdad]

I'd buy the new Blackberry 8800 instead of fountain pens. In fact, I am going to buy the new Blackberry.

 

Not that I don't like fountain pens--I've got quite a few, but they're all cheapos.

[AndreaDuni]

I will buy or a Stipula Etruria Nuda and a Stipula I Castoni, or two Ancora Perla in different colors.

[vacuumkid3]

I would get a "nice" new pen with a cost of about $250, and a "nice" vintage pen for about $250. Most of my pens aren't "nice." I want a great writer, maybe a Pelikan for either vintage or new, and maybe a vintage Sheaffer's. Anyway...

 

~~K~~

[playpen]

If I had $500 now, I would definitely buy a Nakaya because I do not have one and I think it would be nice to own one, unless someone can tell me why I shouldn't buy one. Anyone?

[jdboucher]

Jeez its a Nakaya craze haha.

 

I myself would buy a Pelikan M800 and a Edison Herald.

[zquilts]

I voted two - a Bexley Poseidon in Tortoise and a Tuckaway (depending on prices of course!)

[LillianAd]

I voted 2. Don't know which pens though but keeping my current 'collection', I'd splurge on 2 showpieces

[Philip1209]

1- either an m1000 or maybe a Mont Blanc. . .

[ppenloverr]

lamy 2000

vanishing point (nice colour)

parker duofold

conway stewart (a big pen)

etc...

 

[Ink Stained Wretch]

I chose "more than 10." In fact it might be close to 100. For $500 I think that I could easily get about 50 fountain pens. I just bought a whole load of $5 fountain pens at the NY/NJ Pen Show last weekend.

 

Of course I might buy a couple of pens that cost more than $25 or so. Money might go to my head and make me do that.

[piembi]

With $500 I would try to find some more vintage German pens from the 1950s/1960s (Pelikans, Geha, Kaweco or MBs) with broad or oblique nibs or I would finally risk to buy a Pelikan 100(N) and get it restored if necessary :hmm1:

[calvin82]

1) Lamy 2000 -$100

2) Pilot Vanishing Point -$150

3) 3 pens around $50 - $150

4) Some nice inks and a good pen holder - $100

[feiye]

Oh...if I had $500 (hahaha, yeah right ) right now, I'd buy that darn Visconti Aida I've been eyeing for so long, a couple of Clairefontaine notebooks and a bag of chips.