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

[ProfMS]

Nakaya Portable Cigar Shiro-tamenuri

[Cob]

There is an expression "The exception that proves the rule." As with "Cheap at half the price" I have never understood this expression. The reason for this rather eccentric introduction is that the most expensive pen I have ever purchased was a late 1920s Swan 242/52 pictured below.

 

 

Anyone who has read my posts will know that I am a great enthusiast for Mabie Todd products. I bought this one for its beauty, but I couldn't get on with the nib, so I sold it - at a small loss! It cost me £105 ($160 at current rates) and I spent money on repairs to it. "The exception that proves the rule" Can anyone help by explaining what this means?

 

It was a lesson; I get far more writing pleasure from pens that cost far less, including my beloved Frankenpens - I have about ten of these!

 

Cob

[CoolFool]

Custom Edison with 18K nib. $350. Still my favorite pen.

[CoolFool]

There is an expression "The exception that proves the rule."... I have never understood this expression.

Sidebar:

 

"Prove" in this context means to "test" or to call into doubt. The expression has been misunderstood and consequently misapplied over the years so that now it seems to imply that any rule must have some exception in order for it to be an actual rule - which as you have noticed doesn't really make sense. The original meaning of the saying was that an apparent exception tests or questions the validity of a supposed rule.

[Brian K]

Who, me?

 

:lticaptd: :lticaptd:

[Cob]

Sidebar:

 

"Prove" in this context means to "test" or to call into doubt. The expression has been misunderstood and consequently misapplied over the years so that now it seems to imply that any rule must have some exception in order for it to be an actual rule - which as you have noticed doesn't really make sense. The original meaning of the saying was that an apparent exception tests or questions the validity of a supposed rule.

Thanks very much; reading your message proved (!) to be a "doh" moment for me; I well know for example that guns have to be "proofed" and that of course is the sense to which you have referred.

 

Thanks again

 

best wishes

 

Cob

[Oldtimer]

a $226 Waterman that looked great and photos / videos , supposed to be flex but did not come up to expectations. Smooth as abutter, but not nearly as flexy as the photos implied. From there on, only I buy pens in the vecinity of $100 when expensive and $25-$50 for daily use and taking out.

[TheDarkFaery]

$300 Visconti Opera Elements.

[Sky Fountain Pens]

What you need is 366 pens, one for each day of the year and an extra one to use on leap years!

[prighello]

$280 for a Pelikan M600.

[inkstainedruth]

Wow, I feel cheap.

 

I spent £42 on both my TWSBI 580 and my Parsons Essential. Everything else was less....

But if that's what you're happy with, there's no reason to feel different. The first year I was involved with FPs, I don't think I spent more than about $25 on any pen, and several were considerably less. Even last year, when I splurged on the M400, I also picked up a Morrison BHR ringtop for under $8 including shipping; happened onto the auction with about an hour and a half to go, and figured "what the heck" and won it with maybe only one or two other bidders in the ring.

I look at the really pricy pens and either go "meh" or "um, maybe someday... but not at the moment". Or, if they're the maki-e pens, "Wow. Really gorgeous. But it's urushiol oil -- so, really not buying it...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sky Fountain Pens]

My Most expensive/valuable pen is a 1998 Parker.

[penviper]

Visconti La Bibia Christian FP

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

Visconti La Bibia Christian FP

Hey, no religious allowed on this fourm.

[whichwatch]

Most expensive single pen was this Platinum Izumo Yagumo Nuri. Most expensive "one shot"

 

http://www.fototime.com/%7BF6AC13E1-1DF8-4AA5-8B95-E70DDDADC2F1%7D/origpict/DSCN7534.JPG

 

purchase was this Omas Celluloid Collection

 

http://www.fototime.com/%7B3846E0B3-4B07-4714-8990-2ACB307FAF7C%7D/origpict/pens.jpg

[Sky Fountain Pens]

Hey, no religious allowed on this fourm.

[penviper]

Hey, no religious allowed on this fourm.

 

lol...

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk236/vipercyclone/_57-6_zps993b5184.jpg

 

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk236/vipercyclone/biblia4_zps5483e7ed.jpg

Edited January 18, 2015 by penviper

[kbrede]

I've already replied to this thread once, but now my most expensive pen is a Franklin Christoph Model 19. $210.00 with a Masuyama medium stub.

 

http://www.franklin-christoph.com/model-19-1901.html

Kent

[Sky Fountain Pens]

 

lol...

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk236/vipercyclone/_57-6_zps993b5184.jpg

 

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk236/vipercyclone/biblia4_zps5483e7ed.jpg

[sharonspens]

Purchased - probably my Pelikan Piccadilly Circus. Touched - hm, last week in Atlanta I was in breathing distance of a MB Grace Kelly @$800. Over the years I have actually held various pens in $1000-5000 range, and one $10,000 pen (no, I knew before I touched them I would never BUY them).

 

Sharon in Indiana