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Just came across a nice vintage Mabie Todd Swan 142/32 with the prettiest cap I've seen for a while. The nib is very nice with a bit of flex for those of us who like that sort of thing... :D

 

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Before I even read your quote, I did a double-take on that cap. What an absolute beauty. --h

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Wow I need to catch up on reading all the missed posts, I didn't even know that this monster thread has been split into a new one this year.

 

I have been handing out with these guys. They were awesome!

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Pen: Mabie Todd Swan Leverless L205/62 (c.1930's)

Ink: Monblanc Blue-Black (c.1990's)

Paper: Tomoe River (White)

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Wow I need to catch up on reading all the missed posts, I didn't even know that this monster thread has been split into a new one this year.

 

 

 

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Pen: Mabie Todd Swan Leverless L205/62 (c.1930's)

Ink: Monblanc Blue-Black (c.1990's)

Paper: Tomoe River (White)

 

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Gorgeous pens, gorgeous penmanship, tasteful (dark and neutral) inks. Have you thought of branching out into color? ;)

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Gorgeous pens, gorgeous penmanship, tasteful (dark and neutral) inks. Have you thought of branching out into color? ;)

 

DON'T LISTEN mhphoto, your sombre palette is spot on . . . :happyberet:

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I just received my Conklin Mark Twain in the mail yesterday from Massdrop (and only two weeks after I bought it)! A number of firsts for me: my first Conklin, my first crescent filler, and my first stub nib. It certainly won't be my last stub, either. Loving the character it effortlessly lends to my rather pedestrian cursive.

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I just received my Conklin Mark Twain in the mail yesterday from Massdrop (and only two weeks after I bought it)! A number of firsts for me: my first Conklin, my first crescent filler, and my first stub nib. It certainly won't be my last stub, either. Loving the character it effortlessly lends to my rather pedestrian cursive.

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Isn't that crescent filler so much better to use than levers? I have an old Conklin crescent filler and I wish all of my lever fillers were crescent fillers. It's just so much easier and nicer to squeeze the crescent. You can easily fill a pen one-handed, which I never feel comfortable doing with a lever or button. To me, it adds to the ceremony of filling my pen to turn the ring, press and hold the crescent, release, turn the ring back. Congrats!

 

“When the historians of education do equal and exact justice to all who have contributed toward educational progress, they will devote several pages to those revolutionists who invented steel pens and blackboards.” V.T. Thayer, 1928

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Isn't that crescent filler so much better to use than levers? I have an old Conklin crescent filler and I wish all of my lever fillers were crescent fillers. It's just so much easier and nicer to squeeze the crescent. You can easily fill a pen one-handed, which I never feel comfortable doing with a lever or button. To me, it adds to the ceremony of filling my pen to turn the ring, press and hold the crescent, release, turn the ring back. Congrats!

Yes, it is quite satisfying! It certainly lends a greater air of ceremony to the inking. And if we weren't into the ceremony of it all I suppose most of us would be off in corners silently scribbling.

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The colour is a very strong blue, like a steel blue and is not fading after is drying. Here is a sample written with a Bexley, fine nib.

 

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it does look like a lovely blue. I may have to copy your formula if that is ok. Also, I love that pen, nice blue and elegant!
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Just received this beauty, my very first vintage fountain pen, beautifully restored by Greg Minuskin. It was listed as a Craftsman, but after consulting Richard Binder's reference pages, I believe this to be a Sovereign II as it has the Triumph Lifetime nib. If anyone knows more about it, by all means, please do chime in and educate me :) It has the white dots on both the cap, and the bottom and has a nice, broad nib (0.80mm). I just love those golden browns, especially in the sunshine. :wub:

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Congratulations on your first vintage pen! You got off to a really good start. I love that beautiful brown stripes, they look gorgeous. Have you inked it up yet? What ink have you decided on?

With vacuum/plunger fillers I tend to stick with the same colour group of inks because of the pain in cleaning the ink out completely. That looks like a brown inks pen to me! :thumbup:

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I've mainly been playing with some dip pen nibs I've been sorting through. This is one I've particularly had fun with.

 

Maybe someone here can help me figure out what the nib says (see writing below for what's engraved on the nib). I suspect it's saying "Bank Pen" in Finnish(?) and maybe Swedish? I'm guessing Finnish because that's the only language where I've seen two "k's" in a row. William Mitchell is a well-known British nib maker that's still in business, but this looks like it was made for the Nordic market perhaps. I know it's at least 40 years old as I don't believe any of my nibs are younger than that considering the sources who gave them to me.

 

It turns out I've got a few really nice dip pens for pointed pen calligraphy including a couple of Spencerian No 1 Ivison and Phinney. Now I just need to practice, practice, practice. :)

 

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That's an awesome dip pen! I like using Kaimei Sumi ink for my dip pen work too. I also enjoy Walnut ink, but I find the sumi ink is slipperier which is nice. For either ink I swish the pen in a cup of clean water every page or so to stop the ink from drying on the pen. What paper do you use for your pointy nib work?

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TWSBI Diamond 580AL, F nib, Parker Quink Blue & Diamne Saragosso Sea ink, mix 70/30

 

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Lovely photos, pen, ink mixture, everything! :wub:

Sargasso Sea and Sapphire Blue are indispensable component of my own blue ink mix as well! I really like how they add that serious cobalt kick (sapphire) and intense dye concentration (sargasso) to any mix, but wow the smell of them is something ... interesting. I even panicked when I first used Sapphire Blue a while ago thinking the bottle was mouldy!

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That's an awesome dip pen! I like using Kaimei Sumi ink for my dip pen work too. I also enjoy Walnut ink, but I find the sumi ink is slipperier which is nice. For either ink I swish the pen in a cup of clean water every page or so to stop the ink from drying on the pen. What paper do you use for your pointy nib work?

 

Right now I've got HP Premium Laser #32 for my practice sheets. I can print the sheet on both sides and as long as the ink is dry, I can usually use the obverse as well.

 

Somehow I lucked into a whole set of really nice pens for copperplate type of shaded writing. Now I feel like I really should learn to write well just to justify having all of these wonderful nibs.

 

I have to get some walnut ink. I'm using the Sumi-e ink for my pointed pen dipping, but I've adapted some fountain pen ink by adding gum arabic to it and it's working quite well with my dip stubs. I started with some blue-black I had mixed up with odds and ends of ink. I have the bottle labeled as For Dip Pens Only. Now I can see why people end up with tons of little jars of ink.

 

“When the historians of education do equal and exact justice to all who have contributed toward educational progress, they will devote several pages to those revolutionists who invented steel pens and blackboards.” V.T. Thayer, 1928

Check out my Steel Pen Blog. 

"No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly."

-Montaigne

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Prvt. Toter

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Man this thread is incredible!

 

With all the vintage lately on here, thought I could share a few... Bit of a gold nib round up...

 

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If you think everything is going well... you obviously have no idea what is really going on!

 

 

 

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Forgive to poor quality photos, cell phone standing in for camera.

 

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If you think everything is going well... you obviously have no idea what is really going on!

 

 

 

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da vinci

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Forgive to poor quality photos, cell phone standing in for camera.

 

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Nice pens and drawings Prvt Toter :)

 

Also an interesting notepad - can I ask what it is?

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