If you had $500 to spend on pens

[Paddler]

For $500, you could buy 150 high end, vintage pens and have enough left to repair them all.

 

Paddler

 

[bran]

I amy go for that Visconti Wall Street LE I have been looking at or maybe the Art Nouveau.

[andyk]

Hi,

 

Difficult to say, voted 3-4, but could easily be 1 pen if the right one came up $500 sounds a lot but if we are talking retail prices I suppose it isn't really.

 

Andy

[encremental]

$500 wouldn't go that far for some of us - in the UK the retail price of a Pelikan M800 is $572 ....

 

 

So thank goodness for FPN Marketplace!

[MinasTirithScribe]

I parsed this poll as "if I had $500 to spend on pens that I wouldn't elsewise have spent." My usual pattern is many small purchases because I'm still exploring the Hero-and-friends space. If I counterfactually allowed myself to spend $500 on pendom all at once, I'd buy a Duofold Amber Check. Whenever I see one online I sit on my hands to keep them away from the mouse.

 

I'm still wrestling with my conscience about the Taccia Premier--$180 is above my casual purchase threshold but slightly below my automatic interdiction threshold.

 

Apparently Taccia's designers have wiretapped my right brain--this is the third new "have to have it" pen I've seen from them in 2 years.

 

 

[Deirdre]

Where's the fractional numbers?

[Henrik]

I voted 1. The pen I would really, really like is the Pelikan 111 toledo in excellent condition - but that would be at least 4000 $ extra. :roflmho: So at 500 $ I'll go for a plain black Pelikan 100 with a nice flex nib.

 

regards Henrik

[lapis]

Just one, a Toledo M9XX.

 

Mike

[cfclark]

I'd put it together with some additional $$$ and get an Oldwin like Leigh R's (well, not the exact model; I like the giant version, or the ebony).

[Breck]

2 for me, please. I was thinking modern only when I cast my vote. Pelikan M600 and a Pilot VP, both with custom nibs from Herr Binder. Comes to $485. I'll get some ink with the remainder.

 

Then again, I could go vintage.... Can't I have two votes?

[orangezorki]

I amy go for that Visconti Wall Street LE I have been looking at or maybe the Art Nouveau.

 

You'd be lucky - today I saw a standard red Wall Street FP in a shop for £380 - that's well over $700! Goodness knows how much the LE costs.

 

David.

[jlepens]

Nakaya Cigar Portable Ishime Kanshitsu (Rough Stone Finish) without clip with soft fine flex monotone nib. And as soon as I get $600 free I am ordering it. :embarrassed_smile:

[Pen Nut]

$500 mmmmmmmmm here in the good old UK that wouldnt get you what I would want to add to my ever growing collection of pens. If I lived in the USA my collection would be twice as big

[PaulT00]

I voted 1 - but unfortunately it would be more like 0.5 : Nakayas don't come cheap, especially once you add import duty and UK VAT!

 

 

[Ink Stained Wretch]

For $500, you could buy 150 high end, vintage pens and have enough left to repair them all.

Really? Using the $500 to buy just the 150 vintage pens alone would require that each one cost only $3.33.

 

Are there really so many high end vintage fountain pens around getting sold for that price?

[Blades]

I picked 3-4. I'm still new to pens, and I think I would be better off starting slow.

I would really like a Hira-maki-e pen, so I might change my mind and blow all the money on 1 pen.

[nkk]

I chose 2 pens.

 

I do nto know what I would get, but most of the pens I want right that are under $500 cost around $200-300, so I could get 2.

 

-Nkk

[dumdummuoi]

If I had a spare $500 to spend on pens, I'd add it to the $500 I'm already about to spend on pens, and... oh wait, is that allowed?