What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[gweimer1]

Here's my latest impulse buy...Bexley Goldline...we'll see what happens at the Dallas Pen Show this week.

 

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

10 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

Fairly impulsive - I had looked at this pen in auction and about 3 hours before the end put in a snipe. Somewhat surprisingly, I got it. The impulse part comes with the current history we are living, as the grandson of the pen's purpose will be coronated around the time the pen should reach me. Parker Duofold, 1937 commemorative model.
 

 

This is a great buy. Very timely. Congrats

[essayfaire]

14 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

They have a couple of Five Below stores near me.  I stick my nose in every now and then just to see what they have because the stock changes.

I went into one recently because they had a fountain(or so they website said) that I thought I could mount an orchid to. They didn't, I bought a different fountain(piece of junk, returned it), but couldn't help but notice ALL THE FOUNTAIN PENS!!! Multiple color larger sets, smaller two-pen sets.  I bought one two pack which came with four or five cartridges.  Not bad for a $2.50 pen.  It fits well in the hand and the nib is okay.  It does not like newsprint, however, so no good for crosswords.

 

I think I sent the spare to @amberleadavis to give to a student.

[amberleadavis]

18 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

It’s worth a trip, the calligraphy set with the stub nibs made me think of you.

Big grin.

[amberleadavis]

4 hours ago, essayfaire said:

I went into one recently because they had a fountain(or so they website said) that I thought I could mount an orchid to. They didn't, I bought a different fountain(piece of junk, returned it), but couldn't help but notice ALL THE FOUNTAIN PENS!!! Multiple color larger sets, smaller two-pen sets.  I bought one two pack which came with four or five cartridges.  Not bad for a $2.50 pen.  It fits well in the hand and the nib is okay.  It does not like newsprint, however, so no good for crosswords.

 

I think I sent the spare to @amberleadavis to give to a student.

It has arrived and I'm giving it to a student tonight.

[ya_sure]

I recently bought a Pineider Homage to Arman. As soon as I opened the package I inked it and used it. This was all way over budget, but I could no longer resist. At least the pen writes really well. 

[Driften]

I have a Sailor Pro Gear Fika Cup in MF coming. I was wanting a MF nib again and $219 was hard to pass up on a now discontinued pen. The shades of blue are also nice going by the pictures of that pen.

[Driften]

Then I visit Market watch and see a 1911L M for $89... can't pass up that as well. My only 1911L has a zoom nib and it will be nice to have a M to go with it. Good to have options...

[chromantic]

Impressed by the Sailor PGS Go USA I recently bought (I've been using it every day), I ordered a "European exclusive" Negroni LE from Cult. Similar to the GO but slightly darker with orange finials and rhodium trim.

[Misfit]

On 9/17/2022 at 1:59 PM, essayfaire said:

I'm bad at that.  I let her granddaughter come up with a number per unit, which was considerably less than I would have offered.  I got one with larger boxes, one with smaller boxes, they threw in extra keys/replacement locks, and I can go back and get more as, "they aren't going anywhere." 

 

 

I’m jealous of those old mailboxes. So very, very, very, very cool. 

[inkstainedruth]

Black Sheaffer school pen with a #305 (medium?) nib, at an estate sale out in the boonies.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[essayfaire]

9 hours ago, Misfit said:

I’m jealous of those old mailboxes. So very, very, very, very cool. 

She has three more.  I just stopped by to get some extra key/lock pieces as some of the keys I was given didn't fit. 

 

One of the doors has fallen off as a piece seems to be corroded.  I think I can live with a couple missing doors, but I'm hoping to find a way to repair it.  I know how to fix it cosmetically, but that would render that particular slot unusable.  

[N1003U]

I was in a shop in the airport in Baltimore this week that I am amazed I have never noticed before, as I walk past it fairly often. It is called the "Pen and Prose Boutique" (it is just past security checkpoint between concourses D and E, to the right, near gate D1).

 

In the shop amongst various novelties typical of an airport gift shop, was a small collection of Lamy fountain pens, as well as wall laden with various writing papers and note cards. For those who are fans of Crane Paper products, there is a reasonable selection of Crane cards and writing papers in the shop.

 

Of course being in an airport, the merchandise was a bit overpriced (e.g., Safaris for $50, Al Stars for $60). As I wandered through, the clerk was very friendly, and let me know that they currently had a 10% off special going on everything in the store. As I perused the pens on display, I noticed a Makrolon Lamy 2000, very lonely in the back of a display case, and out of curiosity, I asked how much it was. The price turned out to be a surprising $199, and was included in the 10% off (i.e. now $179.10). Not the absolute best deal, but still too good to pass up on impulse. I did not yet own a legendary Lamy 2000.

 

So I left the shop with a new Lamy 2000, some note cards, and a couple of Leuchtturm1917 A5 notebooks--a bit poorer, but happy nonetheless.

 

 

[ParramattaPaul]

33 minutes ago, N1003U said:

I was in a shop in the airport in Baltimore this week that I am amazed I have never noticed before, as I walk past it fairly often. It is called the "Pen and Prose Boutique" (it is just past security checkpoint between concourses D and E, to the right, near gate D1).

 

In the shop amongst various novelties typical of an airport gift shop, was a small collection of Lamy fountain pens, as well as wall laden with various writing papers and note cards. For those who are fans of Crane Paper products, there is a reasonable selection of Crane cards and writing papers in the shop.

 

Of course being in an airport, the merchandise was a bit overpriced (e.g., Safaris for $50, Al Stars for $60). As I wandered through, the clerk was very friendly, and let me know that they currently had a 10% off special going on everything in the store. As I perused the pens on display, I noticed a Makrolon Lamy 2000, very lonely in the back of a display case, and out of curiosity, I asked how much it was. The price turned out to be a surprising $199, and was included in the 10% off (i.e. now $179.10). Not the absolute best deal, but still too good to pass up on impulse. I did not yet own a legendary Lamy 2000.

 

So I left the shop with a new Lamy 2000, some note cards, and a couple of Leuchtturm1917 A5 notebooks--a bit poorer, but happy nonetheless.

 

 

The airport gift shops had Lamys on offer at a substantial mark-up the last time (Jan. 2019) I passed through the International (Tom Bradley) terminal at LAX.

[Driften]

Newton pen with Brooks Earth Magic material... need I say more?

[txomsy]

That is a really amazingly-looking pen.

[ruby.monkey]

Only part of a pen this time - a NOS Esterbrook 9314-B (broad left-foot oblique) nib unit.

[Norfolk]

Driften:

 

Nice pen!

[SpecTP]

with the British pound at nearly parity with the US dollar, what would be good impulse buys from the UK?

[ParramattaPaul]

2 hours ago, SpecTP said:

with the British pound at nearly parity with the US dollar, what would be good impulse buys from the UK?

An Onoto or a Conway Stewart. Excellent pens.

 

Thanks!  I'll PM my address.... oh, wait.  You mean for YOU.

Never mind.