What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[ruby.monkey]

A couple of boxes of Mudie's Squeezer Pen - the one of plain steel nibs, the other of gold-coloured.

[Doug C]

Majohn V1.

[gweimer1]

These came today...

[Gloucesterman]

1 hour ago, gweimer1 said:

These came today...

Nice load of pens. Esterbrook Safari, right?

Any of the specialized nibs?

 

[inkstainedruth]

5 hours ago, Armo said:

This arrived today and after a good bath and scrub up...

 

It's a Barlei Extra, Spanish and I got it from a seller in Morocco.  I think it's late fifties and appears to be something of a cross between an Onoto K1 and a Sheaffer.

 

Interesting.  What sort of fill system does it have?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

7 hours ago, InkyColors said:

Well, it came and it’s a pretty pen. Feels great in my hand, but it skips and needs some pressure to start writing. It’s going back to Endless Pens for them to check it.  We’ll see what they say. 

 

I'm curious, what ink did you use?

[Armo]

@inkstainedruth It's a piston filler. Ebonite with cork seal.

[txomsy]

11 hours ago, Armo said:

This arrived today and after a good bath and scrub up...

 

It's a Barlei Extra, Spanish and I got it from a seller in Morocco.  I think it's late fifties and appears to be something of a cross between an Onoto K1 and a Sheaffer.

 

Now, that's a most interesting pen, has almost everything, piston, ink window, hooded nib, open nib... I had never seen anything like it. Great find! My congratulations.

[InkyColors]

5 hours ago, USG said:

 

I'm curious, what ink did you use?

Robert Oster Spearmint and then after a good cleaning I used Diamine Sherwood Green. Looking at the nib with a loupe, one of the tines doesn’t look right.

[gweimer1]

11 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Nice load of pens. Esterbrook Safari, right?

Any of the specialized nibs?

 

 

Esterbrook M2, A101, CA101 and a Deluxe SM

[Gloucesterman]

36 minutes ago, gweimer1 said:

 

Esterbrook M2, A101, CA101 and a Deluxe SM

thank you for the clarification.

My memory is foggy, are they cartridge/converter pens or aerometric or...?

[Armo]

@txomsy Here's the Onoto K1 (1955/58). Very similar - so who copied who?

[gweimer1]

3 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

thank you for the clarification.

My memory is foggy, are they cartridge/converter pens or aerometric or...?

 

M2 is a squeeze filler

A-101 is a squeeze filler

CA-101 is a cartridge filler

Deluxe pens were all lever fill.

[Gloucesterman]

3 hours ago, gweimer1 said:

 

M2 is a squeeze filler

A-101 is a squeeze filler

CA-101 is a cartridge filler

Deluxe pens were all lever fill.

thanks for the information.

if you ever need old form cartridges or some other screw-in nibs, PM me. I think I have some squirreled away somewhere.

Enjoy your pens. I am beginning to divest myself of much of my accumulation.

[gweimer1]

1 hour ago, Gloucesterman said:

thanks for the information.

if you ever need old form cartridges or some other screw-in nibs, PM me. I think I have some squirreled away somewhere.

Enjoy your pens. I am beginning to divest myself of much of my accumulation.

 

PM me anytime if you want to get rid of anything.

[KBeezie]

Got these two today locally... 

 

Probably won't keep the Moore Self-Filler but got it on a whim to see if I could fix it up, and it's been a while since I saw a Moore pop up locally. 

Also another Blue Touchdown in more or less user-grade condition that was heavily coated in dried ink inside. Currently cleaned and disassembled (I don't normally knock the nib/feed out on these, but wanted to get the feed and grip into the USC with the amount of heavy ink was on it). Mainly grabbed it because the nib point was on the thicker side and I usually end up with EFs on this model. 

[Aethertigris]

An Opus demonstrator and a Pilot Parallel. Now I'm a novice Old English writer.

[ruby.monkey]

A lightly-used Pelikan M605 Stresemann with fine nib. I've been thinking about an M600-sized Pelikan for a while, so when this older Stresemann with its translucent stripes came up, I decided to bag it.

 

it might be my last purchase, though. This'll take up the last free slot in my pen chest.

[Doug C]

Not a fountain pen but a silver Parker Duofold mechanical pencil. 

[Gloucesterman]

35 minutes ago, ruby.monkey said:

it might be my last purchase, though. This'll take up the last free slot in my pen chest.

Sounds to me like it's time to get a new/larger pen chest!

How big is your current one?