What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[Toams]

Montblanc Charles Dickens - Writers Edition with M nib, new from the shop. Now trying to find out which nib sizes are still available through the nib exchange program and which one will suit to the pen shape best (BB / OBB is my first choice)

[gryphon1911]

Columbus Pen Show Bexley Poseidon Magnum in Orange.

[dogpoet]

Impulsive? Is there any other kind? I don't need any other pens, but that doesn't stop me from buying them.

 

This.

Words of wisdom or what?

[inkstainedruth]

Hmmm. I think the last "impulse" buy (as opposed to scoping out what I wanted -- an Emerald Pearl Vacumatic -- for the best "bang for the buck") is a gold-filigree overlay Morrison ringtop that I picked up last weekend at the Ohio Pen Show.

I got it to replace the one I thought I'd lost last week. And then found the missing pen today... the lanyard cord had somehow gotten caught on part of the storm door, (fortunately *inside* the entryway, and not on the front porch), and the pen itself was lying right under the cord and cap right next to the storm door (in a space between that door and the regular front door). It's apparently been there for about a week and a half, with nobody noticing in spite of *multiple* trips through the entryway

Not sure what shape the ink inside the pen (Robert Oster Moss) is in).... But yeah, Trixie was apparently up to her old tricks. Also not sure what to name the replacement.... Trouble is, I already have a pen that was called Skippy (as in "evil twin Skippy": THAT pen, sadly, has also gone walkabout and is still missing, and won't be NEARLY as easy -- or cheap -- to replace...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lgbpinho]

Columbus Pen Show Bexley Poseidon Magnum in Orange.

Do you mind showing it a bit? I'm on teh fence for a Bexley.

[lgbpinho]

Mine was a Lamy 2k.... I HATE this nib. I'm selling it now

 

I also bought two Ranga. A Model 3 which will arrive soon and a Model 5 with a Conklin broad nib. Really looking forward to this one! It will be my fourth Ranga pen. For some reason I just seem to like it a lot, even with the one with a scratchy Wality nib.

Edited February 27, 2017 by lgbpinho

[Bisquitlips]

This one!

 

But not sad that I did act impulsively!

 

 

 

 

[s_t_e_v_e]

Aurora Optima, but don't regret it at all.

[ac12]

When Farmboy showed me some of the pens he picked up in LA.

[pajaro]

Pelikan M200 Anthricite, a demonstrator.

[Freedom]

Last Friday, a Lamy Lx M nib in Ruthenium.

[chromantic]

Well, I'd have to say my M300. Not so much the slightly(?) used pen itself, which was fairly reasonable as these things go, but the EF nib I had to get to replace the M it came with. This drove the combined cost up into the range of a brand new one but perhaps I can sell the M and recoup some of that.

[ErrantSmudge]

A purple Bexley Owner's Club 2017 with F nib I picked up a week ago at the LA Pen Show.

 

The exhibitors were packing at the end of show Sunday, and I spotted the pen in a portfolio from a dealer I was chatting with. I wasn't seriously shopping, having spent my budget, but he made me an offer. I accepted on the spot.

Edited February 28, 2017 by ErrantSmudge

[Omaslover]

The Lamy 2000

[Runnin_Ute]

A couple of Esterbrook J series pens. A blue transitional in January and a copper about 10 days ago.

[moylek]

I bought a rolled-gold Parker 61 last Fall as I was leaving a pen show ... there, sitting on the last table before the door, it sat: the very image of my late grandfather's Parker 61, a pen which I wrecked 25 years ago when I took it apart with a pair of vice grips while trying to figure out how the hell it was supposed to be filled with ink :\

 

That pen has given me grief for months now, but I've got a sentimental attachment to it proxy, so in order to meet it half way, I bought it a bottle of Quink Washable Blue ...

 

 

... for which we are both happier

[zaddick]

This one!

 

But not sad that I did act impulsively!

 

 

 

 

Congratulations. This looks familiar to me. Was it listed or a private sale? I am reducing my Dani collection but this one is very nice. Enjoy it.

[Sasha Royale]

Last week, I soaked and flushed a neglected Wingsung 233 for Mr. H. Ink flow was pretty poor, until the sixth flush. I tested it with Pelikan Royal Blue. I used it for two letters over the weekend. The cap is a very good fit, even when "soft capped". It is a good quality for a desk pen. The nib reminds me of a classic Sheaffer. I returned it on Sunday, filled with Royal Blue.

 

I don't have one in my collection, so I ordered one Sunday night.

[cleosmama]

A Lamy Studio in Brushed Steel was my last impulsive buy. I got it home and was kind of ticked off to find that the inner cap would not stay in the pen, so I could not cap the pen. After researching the problem and finding that others had it, I sent it off to Lamy for service. Talk about fast service! I sent it off on Monday and had it back by Friday with the problem fixed. And now I'm very happy with it.

[Ambimom]

All my pen acquisitions are impulsive. I went crazy this Christmas.

Platinum Century 3776

Pilot Custom 91

Faber-Castell Loom

Sailor 1911 Standard

 

and I'm forever buying cheap Chinese pens. The last one cost 84 cents, a Hero 616 and it writes beautifully.