What's The Most Expensive Fountain Pen You Ever Bought?

[Water Ouzel]

Pilot Custom 823(F), which was so good I got another (M) and a Custom 743 (WA).

[Zillaxila]

$530 for my Omas 360 Vintage Limited Edition smoky gray cotton resin with a 18 kt broad nib.

[pendexter]

Used Nakaya Portable for $475.

[perfaddict]

Tie between:

 

Newton Pens Elizabethan

Nakaya Writer in Aka-tamenuri

 

both yet to be received

[inkstainedruth]

 

 

Rational position, Ruth. Along those lines my most valuable pen would be the 1948 51 vac demonstrator my Dad gave me for my 57th b'day. Once restored it will be not only quite a bit more rare than my mid 80s 149, it is likely to be more valuable. And to think Dad only paid $7.50 for it at an estate sale.

Nice going on your dad's part. That's a true sumgai purchase.

Yeah, a present from your dad trumps anyone else's "most expensive/valuable" by a long shot.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[fc2462]

Montblanc 149 for me!

[Sasha Royale]

Pelikan Souveran M1000. It was a boxed gift, that was never inked.

I felt bad for the seller, who would miss such a glorious instrument.

(but, not too bad.)

[TorPelikan]

Pelikan M700 Toledo for my father's 60th birthday, 25 years ago.

 

For myself? Pelikan M101N tortoiseshell brown.

[hbyu]

La Rindya

[Cryptos]

Funnily enough my Esterbrook J with a relief oblique nib has turned out to be the most expensive. Factor in the cost of the pen, shipping to here, shipping to the US for repair, payment for a poor restoration job, shipping back to here, and finally shipping back to the US as a giveaway. It should have been a cheap pen and it was a pen that I fell in love with as soon as I got it. If not for the poor repair I would still have it. I also lost a potential friend too. There's no price on that, but I think that it is only me that feels that particular loss.

 

Cost comes in many guises.

Edited December 16, 2014 by Cryptos

[Kuhataparunks]

Pilot Custom Heritage 912 with the PO nib. I'd like to try the Platinum UEF, but I'm content with pilot's design

[TXKat]

Waterman Opera with a fine nib.

[PAKMAN]

Henry Simpole LE Jasmin Pen #36/50 sterling silver overlay

[maverick777]

This flock:

 

http://i.imgur.com/udj97oH.jpg

[andyslo]

My all time high was about $750 for one of the Pilot Buddha Pens...

I've been hunting a good priced Buddha pen at the LA show for several years. Paul Erano had one I loved, a bit vintage, but the tiny piece which punctures a cartridge was broken off. Well, it's all about the hunt right?

[Nihontochicken]

I paid about $175 or so a few years ago on Fleabay for a decent Parker 51 Flighter fountain pen and pencil set. I'd just gotten aced out by a fellow FPNer on a similar set a few days earlier. Turns out he got the better deal, his set was essentially unused, mine wasn't. Oh, well. A while later I scored a Flighter fountain pen that was pristine, and, not well disclosed by the seller's phuzzy fotos, had a factory broad nib. Lose some, win some.

[Shuttlebug]

A Waterman Phileas in Amazon green, bought at Staples in 1996 for about $30.

[Cruisincruzan]

My wife bought me an Aurora Benvenuto Cellini when they first came out. It is the only pen she has ever bought, not bad for a one shot wonder! My own most expensive purchase is a Sailor Susutake.

[hessi]

Stipula daVinci Battaglia Di Anghiari.

 

Bought it for the low LE number and its extremely cool mechanism, hated it after five minutes for the extreme skipping of the not-so-special M nib.

 

I am not interested in selling pens, so I just left it laying around not inked, but a few months later I found a 0.9 stub nib from Stipula and bought it for another 150,- Euro. Put it in the pen, which makes it even more expensive, but now it's absolutely fabulous and in my opinion well worth its money.

[Sky Fountain Pens]

The Bic I used to sign the Marriage License application.