What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[amberleadavis]

On 3/4/2023 at 5:19 AM, Tashi_Tsering said:

Vintage "Ma-Gus" safety in silver overlay. I think, very pretty pen

 

 

 

very pretty

AMAZING pictures

[Misfit]

35 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

I think that is what mine is.

Cool!  Is it a blue with a dark red that in the blue?

[AmandaW]

A bit of a splurge over the weekend... thankfully not much damage and I did have fun. Yes, there was a little fomo, but realistically so, I think (for a change ).

 

The plastic Jinhao Morandi colours (sorry, I don't know the model number) comes in four variants green, pink, grey and blue with the cap a different shade to the body. I did pay attention when the Morandi colours were a thing across many brands a couple of years ago, but couldn't find a model I liked at the time. I love Morandi's paintings! And  do like many Jinhao pens, but didn't recall seeing these. I couldn't decide which colour to get, so... one of each... but under AU$4 each didn't break anything.

 

Also Jinhao 1001. A nicely updated desk pen based on the Japanese Big Three's cheapy ones. I already have two of the four colour / nib options - they were a gift - now I'm getting the others to complete the set: the red with a hooded nib and a black M. They seal well and I like the nibs. Few sellers left of these too and a bit of a hunt for the variants I wanted. Again, under AU$4.

 

What else? The Asvine P30 and Greenfield school pen I already confessed earlier in the thread. So, eight pens over one long weekend does sound bad, but doesn't feel so. Thankfully. I'm completing little collections. Yes, I'm admitting to collecting cos I can no longer claim I need something to write with... It's a bit of a relief. I don't have to justify anything any more. I'll just tell the family they're more useful than stamps.

[Paul-in-SF]

You want impulsive? Yesterday, I was looking through eBay listings of those Pilot Silvern pens I've been interested in lately, and I still haven't decided on, when a non-Pilot silver pen was on the list, one that I had never heard of, a Visconti Rinascimento Vienna. Within 30 minutes (during which time I found an old quote on here that they are "delightful writers") I had found and ordered one (not on eBay). It's coming from nearby and it's already in the mail, so I should have it in a couple of days. 

[Tashi_Tsering]

18 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

very pretty

AMAZING pictures

Thank you very much!

[Metric Mike]

I just ordered the Kaweco bronze Sport Fountain pen after loosing out to a few great vintage ones on ebay.  Then discovered this Uk brand through insta and thought i'd give it a go for the collection https://www.andhand.co.uk/products/method-fountain-pen

[Bo Bo Olson]

Tashi_Tsering... Yours is a very pretty pen.

 

That is a  Rupp nib made in Heidelberg. Rupp made nibs from 1922-70.

The first and only one I have is a maxi-semi-flex and still out of the 15 maxi's I have the most flexible.

Both are flair nibs, givinb your writing flair with out doing anything but writing normally.

Maxi-semi-flex should have a limit of 3 X tine spread vs a light down stroke.

It takes half as much pressure to reach 3X as a semi-flex.

Semi-flex and maxi-semi-flex IMO should not be pushed more than 3 X or one risks springing the nib.

 

The other two times I spotted one of those Rupp nibbed  pretty pens but not as pretty as your pen....I finished second.....could have been braver but when on puts a limit on oneself on Ebay....one shouldn't go more than 10% more. There was a reason for a limit.

 

 

So do you have a semi-flex (a flair nib, not a calligraphy nib)  or a maxi-semi-flex.....Maxi-fives a bit more flare with less effort.

Flex is a term word easily divided but standing alone too big.

 

My original pen was a bit broken but the nib screwed into this one. A mid '50's second tier German pen. The Cliipper was the leading plane of the early -mid '50's. The Super Consultation. President Ike's AF 1. The first one.

I worked on them, so think they are perhaps the prettiest plane that has flown.

Concord comes in second.

[Lithium466]

On 3/4/2023 at 6:22 AM, amberleadavis said:

I think you will like it.

It has arrived, and I do like it!

Not a EF if you expect a Pilot EF, but nice, smooth nib, well packaged in a nicely finished (for the price) body. A very competent writer...and now I want to buy more of these!

I popped a Pilot blue cartridge and it wrote right away, and didn't dry after a night. What more to ask?

[JonSzanto]

Scroll, scroll, scroll... BAM!! Caught sight of this cute Esterbrook "Petite Pak" with case and original box, and a quick question to the seller confirmed that the nib in another blurry picture is a 9788 Flexible Medium "Master Point". Hit that BIN button very quickly at that point.

 

[Misfit]

@JonSzanto wow, awesome and cool find. I really like that color. Congratulations. 

[jchch1950]

Lamy Al-star in Lilac. Went to buy the Al-star in petrol but at the end bought both pens.

[amberleadavis]

8 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

It has arrived, and I do like it!

Not a EF if you expect a Pilot EF, but nice, smooth nib, well packaged in a nicely finished (for the price) body. A very competent writer...and now I want to buy more of these!

I popped a Pilot blue cartridge and it wrote right away, and didn't dry after a night. What more to ask?

 

Don't forget to show it to us!

[Aysedasi]

TWSBI Draco.  Broad nib.  Really nice pen.  

[A Smug Dill]

SixSeventeen pens in all — three Asvine, and thirfourteen Jinhao — within the span of 30 minutes. Mind you, they've all been sitting in my shopping cart for several days. The only ‘impulsive’ thing about it was (not surprisingly) pulling the trigger, as the time for applying those discounts (in this round, anyway) started running out.

 

Edited March 13, 2023 by A Smug Dill
Gee, I can't even count properly.

[JonSzanto]

13 hours ago, Misfit said:

@JonSzanto wow, awesome and cool find. I really like that color. Congratulations. 

 

Thanks! I have a very similar set, and the case is a study in blue. With this one having both a box and slip case in green tones, I'm interested to see if the set is a different color than the one I have. I assumed Esterbrook made both a green and blue pastel color, but it turns out that they had two different shades of blue. Worth checking out, and I'll likely re-home one of the sets, as my collecting interest in vintage Esterbrooks is small.

[Penguincollector]

I started reading about how the Chinese got the Parker 45 technology and that led to buying some blue Moonman 80s for $20 and a no name clear piston filler ($1.49 with shipping!). 

[mizgeorge]

Couldn't help it. Bright Pink Rockster spotted on virtual pen show. It called.....

[gweimer1]

Someone came to my table, and asked if I was buying pens.  I said I was, and he showed me this.  It was my only actual purchase at the show.

[Doug C]

Waterman Carene l essence Blu.

 

I always wanted one of those.  One of only three modern Waterman pens I like; Carene, Edson and serenite

[AmandaW]

A purple Lorelei 667 with an EF nib.

 

This is hardly impulsive if I commented on it back in 2021... but then I did get the Asvine P30 only days ago (similar shape and clear barrel etc) but found it's really too heavy for more than a quick note for me. Kinda disappointed. I looked around and there's the Lorelei, including my own post about it, just as pretty, but acrylic. 

 

Now, I really do have to reign in the horses for a bit.