How Many Pens Do You Own?

[SockAddict]

Okay, now I've gotta go count. I'm going to estimate about 40, but 7 of those are a set of Pilot Varsities that I'm going to pass on to my nephew, and about 7 more are various calligraphy pens that I bought in search of an inexpensive usable fine italic.

 

All right, I wandered around the house and counted. I have 49. As I said, 7 will be going to my nephew (I think). Seven others are calligraphy pens, but there are 2-3 I use as regular writers sometimes. Three more don't work. That leaves 30+ as writers. But probably half of those are regulars in my rotation.

 

Oh, and two of those were counted in absentia, which means I might still be missing a couple more … Oh, and there's that one in the mail ...

[Red Dragon]

I only have three functional fountain pens. A Luoshi F-M that my aunt didn't want, a Lamy Safari EF and a recent addition of a Faber Castell Ambition pearwood finish F nib. My Lamy 2000 is coming sometimes next week, I hope. I already have a collection plan ready, which will put me around 7 fountain pens (the Luoshi does not belong in my collection).

[new2writing]

Currently 66 all FP

[benjitzu]

49 at last count, though a few more are on the way. Now that I know what I like, I'm sure I'll narrow that number down a bit this year through selling or giving away the pens I don't absolutely LOVE.

 

Actually, it might stay between 40-50 as I'm positive I'll add a few more pens soon.

[fullfederhalter]

Several hundred, mostly vintage purchased at flea markets and estate sales. Add a hundred or so vintage mechanical pencils, perhaps 50 ball points, and about twenty dip pens, and I have entirely too many. So why am I still actively looking?

[SockAddict]

So why am I still actively looking?

 

If you figure that one out, let me know, huh? Or, on second thought, maybe not ...

[Kuscer]

Several hundred, mostly vintage purchased at flea markets and estate sales. Add a hundred or so vintage mechanical pencils, perhaps 50 ball points, and about twenty dip pens, and I have entirely too many. So why am I still actively looking?

[Kuscer]

... So why am I still actively looking?

It's obvious! You're one of us!

[Yaakova]

Counting calligraphy fountain pens (e.g. Sheaffer No Nonsense, Manuscript, and Plantignum)? About 45, give or take a few. About 30 +/- of non italic nib pens.

[Cordovian]

My collection has actually shrunk even though I've purchased a few over the past few months. I gave quite a few away but sold some of them to finance the pen purchases I've made lately. Right now I think I'm at 15.

[PAKMAN]

According to my list 118 fountain pens.

[Sasha Royale]

Dear Beloved One is reading over my shoulder. I'm not answering this question.

I advise against anyone answering this question.

[Sasha Royale]

Dear Beloved One is reading over my shoulder. I'm not answering this question.

I advise against anyone answering this question.

 

So, Sasha has THAT many fountain pens ? The girls and I are going shoe shopping.

Thank you FPN !

 

P_ _ _ _ _ .

[lmarine0510]

Functional and working? Currently 12 (with 5 of them being of any significant monetary and/or sentimental value.) I Probably have somewhere in the ballpark of 20 or so that I either bought to restore then use/sell or old, incomplete cheapies that I bought to cannibalize for various parts.

[Parse Error]

Five.

All of them are in use.

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

Apparently not enough, as I am about to buy another pen.

[inkstainedruth]

Wish I could discipline myself to create a database with details for each pen/pencil ... Must be 700-800 collected over the last 20 years. Most are vintage. My daily users come from a very small group of modern pens.

I have that. The database I mean, not the 800 pens. I started a file when I started getting vintage pens, to keep track of how much they cost, including repairs. I figured that as some of them might be somewhat valuable or rare, it would be useful to have that information on file for insurance purposes (I really hope I don't have to get a rider on my homeowner's insurance...).

I also have a separate spreadsheet file, because I was curious about how the price distribution went as I started buying more expensive pens. A few pens were free (gifts, PiFs or came with ink), so I had to estimate their value. Fortunately, I still have *not* broken the $200 US threshold. Yet.... (I think that my husband lives in dread of the day when I do cross that threshold )

It is kinda interesting to see the range on the last several pens I've acquired since Christmas. One fairly pricy, one inexpensive, and one cheapie that was a freebie, and one that ended up being somewhat pricier than it should have been because of unexpected but necessary repairs.

It remains to be seen whether the stash gets increased again later this week -- as of this afternoon I was still high bidder on a couple of Ebay listings. One I'm expecting to get outbid on -- even though I went up higher than that particular pen would normally warrant, IMO -- simply because the nib is really kinda unusual and cool; the other, it's a tossup as to whether I'll get it or not. My max isn't all that high, in the great scheme of things: it's higher than *I* think the pen should sell for, but I have to keep reminding myself that the one I have like it was a sumgai from about 2-1/2 years ago and that I can't expect them all to still be 10 bucks.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sasha Royale]

 

So, Sasha has THAT many fountain pens ? The girls and I are going shoe shopping.

Thank you FPN !

 

P_ _ _ _ _ .

 

[OcalaFlGuy]

Hell if I know.

 

 

A bunch.

 

 

Probably less than 100.

 

 

 

I think.

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[oregano]

I don't know if I should feel relieved at the low count of my pens or in dread at the day I have 45 'give or take' a few!! I say I only want ten modern pens max. for everyday use but I drew up a list of the pens I've contemplated getting "at some point" in the distant future today and it was around 20-30 pens.

 

Right now I have 13 pens in my little collection, two of them RBs, two need repairs.