Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, *show* Us! - 2015

[SNAK]

 

Neither would the parents! I was fascinated by Sheaffer Snorkels as a kid, and I whined until my parents bought me a PFM I (retail then was $10, a III would have been $5 more). They didn't allow me to take it to school (I was in seventh grade) because they were afraid I would lose it. Can't remember how it happened, but eventually it did get lost. By that time I had a sterling Parker 75 and a Montblanc 149, and I haven't lost a pen since.

 

Here's a photo of what my PFM I looked like:

 

http://i.imgur.com/wHU0Ofo.jpg

That's so interesting. Out of curiosity, what was the value of $10 back then in todays terms? For example, what could you have bought with that same $10 if you spent it on something else back then?

[Frank C]

That's so interesting. Out of curiosity, what was the value of $10 back then in todays terms? For example, what could you have bought with that same $10 if you spent it on something else back then?

 

McDonald's had a slogan, "Change back from your dollar." You could buy a cheeseburger, french fries, and a milkshake for about 50¢.

[jmccarty3]

That's so interesting. Out of curiosity, what was the value of $10 back then in todays terms? For example, what could you have bought with that same $10 if you spent it on something else back then?

 

According to a handy-dandy inflation calculator I just found, $10 in 1962 was worth a little over $78 in 2014, if you figure inflation using the Consumer Price Index. Of course, some things have gone up more. The $75 list price I paid for a Montblanc 149 in 1967 is now $935.

[perfaddict]

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[Pterodactylus]

Yesterday evening I played arround with a pencil and a white pastel pencil doing some exercise to show liquid,reflection,light.

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000 - HB)

(Stabilo - Carbothello - white)

[fountainpagan]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/912/Yu2DRJ.jpg

[the_gasman]

Yesterday evening I played arround with a pencil and a white pastel pencil doing some exercise to show liquid,reflection,light.

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000 - HB)

(Stabilo - Carbothello - white)

Ptero, what a pity that you've ruined a beautiful drawing by spilling water onto it.

[Eduardo]

My oldest girls...

 

http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc383/edulpj/IMG_20150615_073236_zps1zectikt.jpg

 

Kaweco Dia (1939)

Parker Duofold (1941)

[fountainpagan]

Ptero, what a pity that you've ruined a beautiful drawing by spilling water onto it.

 

 

 

Ptero - great technic. Congratulations

[mehandiratta]

I am using Wality 71 JT..

Fitted with Ambitious #6 (35 mm nib)

Edited June 15, 2015 by mehandiratta

[Diderot]

 

Neither would the parents! I was fascinated by Sheaffer Snorkels as a kid, and I whined until my parents bought me a PFM I (retail then was $10, a III would have been $5 more). They didn't allow me to take it to school (I was in seventh grade) because they were afraid I would lose it. Can't remember how it happened, but eventually it did get lost. By that time I had a sterling Parker 75 and a Montblanc 149, and I haven't lost a pen since.

 

Here's a photo of what my PFM I looked like:

 

http://i.imgur.com/wHU0Ofo.jpg

 

That's a lovely pen.

Years ago my father gave me his - it was black (not sure what version), I always struggled to get ink into it and the cap was not very tight.

I used to keep it on my desk at work, which turned out to be a mistake as it was stolen.

I keep meaning to replace it not with the older version, but rather one of the newer ones which take cartridge/converter.

[SNAK]

McDonald's had a slogan, "Change back from your dollar." You could buy a cheeseburger, french fries, and a milkshake for about 50¢.

 

According to a handy-dandy inflation calculator I just found, $10 in 1962 was worth a little over $78 in 2014, if you figure inflation using the Consumer Price Index. Of course, some things have gone up more. The $75 list price I paid for a Montblanc 149 in 1967 is now $935.

 

50 years ago, if I had $10,

• I could eat so much junk food till I couldn't get up anymore.

or

• I could buy a nice pen.

Swapping the $10 of 50 years ago into $100 of present day in my mind, it makes me want to stop buying coffee out or having takeaway (takeout) and spend a bit more on pens, so that in 50 years time, they will improve so much in value!

Edited June 15, 2015 by SNAK

[SNAK]

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That is a big big cap!

[SNAK]

Yesterday evening I played arround with a pencil and a white pastel pencil doing some exercise to show liquid,reflection,light.

 

 

That is so realistic. Very nicely done, Ptero!

[line]

Yesterday evening I played arround with a pencil and a white pastel pencil doing some exercise to show liquid,reflection,light.

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000 - HB)

(Stabilo - Carbothello - white)

Nice water study, Ptero!

[line]

 

I am using Wality 71 JT..

Fitted with Ambitious #6 (35 mm nib)

 

Cool pen! :-)

[Frank C]

Cool pen! :-)

 

And nice handwriting, too.

[perfaddict]

That is a big big cap!

 

Yep. Designed to post deep, and does so very well. Capped: 14cm, Posted: 15.4cm.

[vPro]

http://oi60.tinypic.com/2i9ts82.jpg

[mehandiratta]

Cool pen! :-)

Thank you