What pen is your Holy Grail?

[Silvermink]

I've added the MB Franz Kafka to my earlier list (Waterman 554, Nakaya in one of the tamenuri finishes, Namiki Yukari Nightline).

[Bearcat]

Only the pure in heart may find the Holy Grail. To be pure in heart, one must be free from desire. Therefore, be content. Here endeth the lesson.

 

 

+1

[mallymal1]

I'm trying to be free from desire of a Montblanc Agatha Christie...

[tr3n1ty]

The fine super-flexible wet noodle beautiful jade green ringtop Mabie Todd Swan that disappeared from my purse last January.

[picautomaton]

pity the question is singular so I am going to have to go with a Mont Blanc 'skeleton'.

 

one more please,'_'

[NLP]

Bryant just showed me my new grail pen - the Visconti Templar!

 

GP, that one is on my hit list too. Bry is such an enabler. :-)

[NLP]

To the Visconti Templari, I'm adding a Simpole. Just can't make up my mind which one, other than I like the red or blue rather than plain black.

 

I had a CS Simpole sterling over black. It was a beautiful pen and very conservative - not at all flashy.

[vmac6702]

Until yesterday, I was intent on a brushed-steel flighter that I haven't seen made yet (outwardly identical to a Stainless Steel Sharpie), then I saw this:

 

<a href="http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/graphyscaph.asp" target="_blank">http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/graphyscaph.asp</a>

 

Are you still searching for this pen? I have one, with the porthole display case, seashells, sand, etc. I adore it, but circumstances require me to 'learn to let go'. Would you like to purchase her?

[vmac6702]

Until yesterday, I was intent on a brushed-steel flighter that I haven't seen made yet (outwardly identical to a Stainless Steel Sharpie), then I saw this:

 

<a href="http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/graphyscaph.asp" target="_blank">http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/graphyscaph.asp</a>

 

Are you still searching for this pen? I have one, with the porthole display case, seashells, sand, etc. I adore it, but circumstances require me to 'learn to let go'. Would you like to purchase her?

 

Never inked, dipped, nada

[Number3124]

A black Parker 51 Red Band, with a gold cap with the blue diamond clip and matching pencil. Man...... me wanty...

Edited March 30, 2011 by Number3124

[bigmac53]

An early celluloid Mont Blanc 149, or any of a couple different models from their Writer's Series.

[pajaro]

NOS Parker 51 Aerometric Maroon, Lustraloy cap.

[camoandconcrete]

This is mine. The S.T. Dupont Versailles. I know it is not most peoples' choice because it is gaudy but I think it is unusual and beautiful.

 

ETA: As usual I don't own the photo, copyright noted in pic.

Edited March 31, 2011 by MiamiArchStudent

[pavoni]

Well, whilst relatively new to fountain pen collecting (I'm much more a user than collector really) I set my self a grail quest - obtaining three final pens. I know everyone says "oh yeah..." in disbelief but I have the pens I want to use and I merely want for these three pens. The satisfy everything I could want in a pen and then some. The are also horribly expensive, sufficient for me not to be able to buy any more. The three pens in question are:

 

1950s MB 149, MB 138 and MB 139.

 

I have just today received my 1950s MB 149. I have be lucky enought to be offered a chance (only a chance) to buy a MB 138. This leaves me looking for MB 139. So, if the OP is looking to restrict the reader to just one pen, as I hope to get the MB 138 for mid-April, I guess it is the MB 139. However, I really feel as though I have been on the trail of the grail - my final three pens.

 

Pavoni.

[lgbpinho]

Right now I am saving for the Sailor King of Pen in rhodium trim with the naginata-togi medium nib. The standard version would also do as well. Thankfully, much easier than some of holy grails above *hehe*

[miket_nyc]

A Chilton Wing-Flow like this one.

[Kiaxa]

Caran d'Ache 1010 Chrono Sport. A pen that I will never ever be able to justify spending the money to get. I really hope Jinhao makes a replica of it.

 

http://www.pensandleather.com/images/products/detail/1010_ChronoSport_Press_di.jpg

Edited September 19, 2015 by Kiaxa

[Noihvo]

As a lover of wood pens and Faber-Castell, the choice of Grail Pen is obvious: Pen of the Year 2010, the Walnut Huntsman! Currently asking around various stores about its availability.

 

(Image from Graf von Faber-Castell)

[Cryptos]

I am afraid I am a little different from the rest of you. I don't have a specific maker or model that I consider a 'grail pen'. For me, my Grail Pen is one that suits me in all the aspects that I require: aesthetically pleasing, settling in the hand as if it was a part of me, and a nib that performs precisely how I would like it to. For those of you still awake and paying attention, you will notice that I have not included cost as a criterion.

 

There may be a pen out there that fulfills my criteria, but I have yet to find it. Far from it in fact.

[inkeverywhere]

Holy Grail is defined as the cup or platter used by Christ at the last supper and has been seen as a treasure searched for ever since.

 

For a pen to be a holy grail to me it must be steeped in history and probably as unattainable as this other holy grail.

 

Therefore my holy grail pen would have to be the one used by General Douglas Macarthur in signing the surrender documents at the end of the war with Japan. I know it exists but unattainable to me - a true holy grail.

 

 

Greg