What Pen Are You Waiting For In The Mail 2015

[zaddick]

I have not posted here in a while, but I went for a big splash today and bought three Danitrio pens. I am quite excited to get them in my hands.

[Chu0009]

Celebrating FPD

Just ordered myself 3rd pelikan ! For my collection

 

A nice M1000 greenstripe. Can't wait !

[eliweisz]

I couldn't let Fountain Pen Day go by without ordering something, so I chose this nice little Sheaffer from Greg Minuskin.

 

http://i.imgur.com/WXoxmZJ.gif

 

It's a Mini-Balance Lifetime Green Stripe, with a 0.7 mm medium stub nib.

I ordered a Carmine Balance from Mr. Minuskin, also fitted with a 0.70 stub. It will be interesting to compare our tests. And Marine Green Striated (full-size or oversized) is... well, not my grail pen, but something I can't help thinking about.

[uemuraw]

For Fountain Pen Day, I ordered a Platinum 3776 Century Yamanaka from nibs.com. Got a free bottle of Sheaffer blue ink, too. Woo-hoo!

For belated Fountain Pen Day, I ordered a TWSBI Diamond 580 AL Blue from Pendleton Brown, with the Pendleton Point Elegant Butter-line Stub~Italic fine nib. Now I'll have a BLS in F, M, and B.

[Tanzanite]

I'm not waiting any more but for Fountain Pen day I ordered a clear TWSBI 580 with M nib. This pen is perfect for the dryes inks.

[kreinhard]

2009 LE Orange and another Apple Green Safari.

[inkstainedruth]

Sheaffer Touchdown. Don't know what the nib on it is yet, because it was a prize, not a purchase.

This was the year I was going to cut back on pen acquisitions. Really. But I just looked at my notes and I have either won, been given, or got free with ink nearly as many pens as I bought...

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[cleosmama]

I ordered an Idyll from Scriptorium Pens. My first custom pen. My order number is 128; Renee is on pen 53. So I have a little wait...

[Sandy Fry]

Waiting for a Parker Sonnet and yet another 45!!!

 

David

[uemuraw]

Just received this e-mail:

 

This message was sent to you at the request of John Mottishaw, to notify you that they have shipped a package to you. For details about your shipment or to track your package, please refer to the information below.

 

 

Got a Platinum 3776 Century Yamanaka on the way. Some free ink, too.

[svalcourt]

I'm waiting for a few pens: Jinhao x450, Baoer 388, and a Hero 616.

[zaddick]

I ordered an Idyll from Scriptorium Pens. My first custom pen. My order number is 128; Renee is on pen 53. So I have a little wait...

Congratulations. What material did you get?

[inkstainedruth]

And the Touchdown has landed, er, touched-down, er, arrived! Black barrel and cap, (regular, as opposed to a Triumph nib) steel M1 nib, non-white dot model with what appears to be a 3 mm plain cap band, and "SHEAFFER'S" on the clip. I've just been trying to do a bit of research and it sounds as if it *might* be a Touchdown Cadet (?). No pix yet, sorry. I'll bring it along to OPS this weekend and hopefully someone will be able to help me narrow down details such as the exact model and a date range a bit better. Also, check to see if it's working....

Thanks to Jeff Powers for the really cool contest on his blog in conjunction with FP Day 2015. I wasn't completely unfamiliar with Touchdowns, because I had borrowed one from a friend a couple of years ago to see if my husband would like the nib on it (only no, not fine enough for his tastes). Oh, and he threw a couple of bookmarks and an FP Day sticker in the package, which I hadn't seen at first, so I pulled up the one on the outside of the envelope and am keeping my fingers crossed that there is enough "sticky" left for it to stay on the cover of my laptop....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[VivienR]

Ordered a Sailor 1911L gold trim with medium fine nib... oh, I'm so excited...

[amk]

Whooohooo! lots of broken old French pens on their way to me for repair - mainly Bayards. Now I need to buy a load of sacs :-)

[tutelman]

Just won something a little different on an eBay auction within the last hour: A Pineider EGO4. Brown methacrylate and sterling silver with an 18K M nib.

 

Pineider is an Italian stationer (kind of like Levenger) who sells pens made by other manufacturers under their brand name. In the past many of their pens have been made by Stipula. I am not sure who manufactured the EGO4 for them.

 

If you're interested in a photo, here's a link to Pineider and the pen: http://www.pineider.com/en/sales/394-ego4-fountain-pen-.html

[baik12]

TWSBI ECO from Amazon and Monteverde Artista Crystal from Goulet (with Monteverde Turquoise ink!)

[lacie]

I have two TWSBI ecos on the way. I love my 580 so hoping the eco is as fun.

[eliweisz]

Desperately waiting for two Sheaffers - a carmine striated Balance with 0.70 Lifetime stub, and a brown striated Triumph with Fine nib.

[J_MM]

Waiting for a Duke D2 and Duke Carbon Fiber.