What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[ParramattaPaul]

Had to do it.  Went shopping of another vintage Wyvern, Bought one. 

[Misfit]

I was thinking I’d order the Kaweco AL in rose gold because it seems to be the cheapest on Amazon.  I was about to check out, when I decided to look for the Anthracite.  I saw one at a lower price than I’d seen, so ordered it, using $9 in credit card award money. The AL Anthracite is the one I’ve been wanting. 

[carola]

10 hours ago, Pale.Ink.Tom said:

Another little orphan, a little worse for wear but at approximately 103 years of age I am astonished at it's abilities! Hallmarks signify, 'London' (overlay) Silversmith, 1921. 14K Swan #1 nib.

It may never win a beauty competition but it was love at first sight for me!

 

 

 

 

Apart from the Swan nib all lettering impressions have been worn away so I have no idea what it is.

It seemed the most natural thing in the world to fill it first with the delicate, "Edelstein Moonstone" and I have not been tempted to change it.

The nib is remarkable. Smooth, gently flexible and very 'expressive'. Everything I have come to love about vintage, M.T. Swan nibs!

A slice of heaven🥰

 

Pale.ink.Tom

 

If this pen is never going to win a beauty competition, this can only be due to the damages caused by age, because the pen itself is a little beauty. And if we all still look like that at the age of 103, we may congratulate ourselves.

I have never seen a pen with those looks and probably there haven´t been too many around in the first place. Very nice find!

[Stompie]

15 hours ago, dms525 said:

I  went to the SF Pen Show last Friday afternoon. I learned that I now enjoy meeting with pen people even more than acquiring pens/inks/paper. It probably has to do with having a lot more wonderful pens than I can reasonably use and too little social interaction in my life.

 

I also proved again that I have a serious weakness for Brooks' PM 1. I impulsively bought a cute little clipless pen in PM1 from Jonathon hisself. JoWo Steel 1.1mm stub nib. It writes nicely.

 

It wasn't an impulse. It was on my "To Do" list for the show. I also bought a Toyooka Craft single pen desk stand. I do love their products.

 

 

David

That is a nice looking pen!!!

[Stompie]

18 hours ago, Aysedasi said:

 

Seems that way.  My first was also the 'white' transparent one with a medium nib.  An astonishingly smooth writing experience from a pen that cost me £8.66 including shipping!  I haven't picked up another pen since I got it about 10 days ago...  I've not tried the X159 though.  I did have 4-5 159s.    

The 159's are also nice, I like the weight of them but the X159 has far better nibs, which I believe are the same nib that they now use in the 9019.

[Stompie]

15 hours ago, ruby.monkey said:

I bought a medium-nib 9019 recently, and liked it so much that I added a fine and extra-fine to round out the set of opaque models. I'm in Kent, though, so I'm not making Hampshire's load worse.

 

Latest impulse buys were a Norex 572, just because it looked interesting and I'd never heard of the make before; and a large Sheaffer's Balance lever filler with a broad stub Lifetime nib.

Well, you are balancing the island nicely then eh! 

 

I never heard of Norex either, how does it write?

[ruby.monkey]

I can't say yet, as it has just begun its journey from Romania. It looks like a budget Montblanc 14, though.

[carola]

9 hours ago, USG said:

 

I'm so sorry this is out of sequence but I wanted to comment on the Morton Pen.  I was trying to visualize what it looked like.  I was able to find some pics of big Morton Gold Nibs on pen holders but nothing on a pen.  I couldn't figure out how the mother of pearl fit in...  Well there is is. Very nice.  A mighty find. 😀👍  How does it write?

 

The nib is a dream. You start out with EF or F, depending on how much pressure you regularly use, and then, when you push it a little, the nib suddenly spreads out to lay down a 4 mm line (we used calipers to measure it). And with pushing it, I don´t mean pushing down like mad until the nib snaps, just very gently using a little bit more pressure than usual, that´s enough. It took a while for the ink flow to keep up on this because the pen was completely dry, but once the feed had accumulated enough ink, there was no railroading. The nib is smooth with just a tiny bit of feedback, no scratchiness at all.

 

It is a very slim little thingy, slimmer than I usually like my pens to be, but as the section doesn´t have a step and becomes continually wider, I can hold the pen surprisingly comfortably. Capped, the pen is a little bit longer than a Pelikan 400, uncapped it is a little bit shorter. It can be posted, which makes the pen almost 50 % longer but doesn´t change a lot balancewise as the cap (and the whole pen) is very lightweight - no inner cap, no clip, no bling. The only metal on the whole pen is the nib and the two 14 C golden bands on both sides of the inlay. No filling system (eyedropper), no nothing. It is the simplest pen I have ever seen.

 

While I was talking to the seller, I used the pen to doodle a bit and he ended up with a striped cat and a hairy devil on his paper. The devil resulted from me getting something that distinctly looked like a pair of horns when I was drawing two curves, one down and to the right and the other down and to the left with increasing pressure. I just had to fill the gap between them with a head. 😁 That pen is a lot of fun to play around with.

[USG]

10 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  
  Thanks, I have a Compact II that I enjoy, so I am keen to compare the two. There’s something rather penguiny about Sheaffer’s inlaid nibs that makes me smile.

Haha, a Penguiny Pen, I definitely can see it … 😀

[Gloucesterman]

2 hours ago, carola said:

 

The nib is a dream. You start out with EF or F, depending on how much pressure you regularly use, and then, when you push it a little, the nib suddenly spreads out to lay down a 4 mm line (we used calipers to measure it). And with pushing it, I don´t mean pushing down like mad until the nib snaps, just very gently using a little bit more pressure than usual, that´s enough. It took a while for the ink flow to keep up on this because the pen was completely dry, but once the feed had accumulated enough ink, there was no railroading. The nib is smooth with just a tiny bit of feedback, no scratchiness at all.

 

It is a very slim little thingy, slimmer than I usually like my pens to be, but as the section doesn´t have a step and becomes continually wider, I can hold the pen surprisingly comfortably. Capped, the pen is a little bit longer than a Pelikan 400, uncapped it is a little bit shorter. It can be posted, which makes the pen almost 50 % longer but doesn´t change a lot balancewise as the cap (and the whole pen) is very lightweight - no inner cap, no clip, no bling. The only metal on the whole pen is the nib and the two 14 C golden bands on both sides of the inlay. No filling system (eyedropper), no nothing. It is the simplest pen I have ever seen.

 

While I was talking to the seller, I used the pen to doodle a bit and he ended up with a striped cat and a hairy devil on his paper. The devil resulted from me getting something that distinctly looked like a pair of horns when I was drawing two curves, one down and to the right and the other down and to the left with increasing pressure. I just had to fill the gap between them with a head. 😁 That pen is a lot of fun to play around with.

Would love to see some writing samples with the fine to 4mm line variations. Now that would look impressive, I think.

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, carola said:

 

The nib is a dream. You start out with EF or F, depending on how much pressure you regularly use, and then, when you push it a little, the nib suddenly spreads out to lay down a 4 mm line (we used calipers to measure it). And with pushing it, I don´t mean pushing down like mad until the nib snaps, just very gently using a little bit more pressure than usual, that´s enough. It took a while for the ink flow to keep up on this because the pen was completely dry, but once the feed had accumulated enough ink, there was no railroading. The nib is smooth with just a tiny bit of feedback, no scratchiness at all.

 

It is a very slim little thingy, slimmer than I usually like my pens to be, but as the section doesn´t have a step and becomes continually wider, I can hold the pen surprisingly comfortably. Capped, the pen is a little bit longer than a Pelikan 400, uncapped it is a little bit shorter. It can be posted, which makes the pen almost 50 % longer but doesn´t change a lot balancewise as the cap (and the whole pen) is very lightweight - no inner cap, no clip, no bling. The only metal on the whole pen is the nib and the two 14 C golden bands on both sides of the inlay. No filling system (eyedropper), no nothing. It is the simplest pen I have ever seen.

 

While I was talking to the seller, I used the pen to doodle a bit and he ended up with a striped cat and a hairy devil on his paper. The devil resulted from me getting something that distinctly looked like a pair of horns when I was drawing two curves, one down and to the right and the other down and to the left with increasing pressure. I just had to fill the gap between them with a head. 😁 That pen is a lot of fun to play around with.

  What a score, @carola ! It’s a beauty, glad to hear that it’s as wonderful a writer as it looks. 

 

[gweimer1]

I may have gone a little overboard this time.

[inkstainedruth]

7 hours ago, carola said:

 

If this pen is never going to win a beauty competition, this can only be due to the damages caused by age, because the pen itself is a little beauty. And if we all still look like that at the age of 103, we may congratulate ourselves.

I have never seen a pen with those looks and probably there haven´t been too many around in the first place. Very nice find!

@Pale.Ink.Tom +1 to what she said.  I thought it was a lovely little pen myself.  And +1 to what she said about it being a nice find, too!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[inkstainedruth]

3 hours ago, gweimer1 said:

I may have gone a little overboard this time.

What are those?  

While I'd never want to buy a maki-e pen, I can certainly admire them for the works of art they are.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[gweimer1]

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

What are those?  

While I'd never want to buy a maki-e pen, I can certainly admire them for the works of art they are.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

A pair of Namiki Nippon Art series pens, and a Mont Blanc Elizabeth I pen.

[VersoFolio]

@Penguincollector @carola and @inkstainedruth It made me very happy when I found your messages.😀 Thank you. I play quietly here in my own little backwater and forget that the 'World' is wide awake 24/7...!

She is a Grand old Lady! And I am so glad that more than just myself appreciate her.

I am delighted to share my discovery with you.😊

Kind regards friends,

P.I.Tom

 

[VersoFolio]

 

7 hours ago, gweimer1 said:

I may have gone a little overboard this time.

Youch! May you repent at leisure @gweimer1

Stunning 'Regal' trio!

Congratulations.

 

P.I.Tom

[Penguincollector]

11 hours ago, gweimer1 said:

I may have gone a little overboard this time.

  I think it’s the correct amount of board- what a lovely trio!

[USG]

14 hours ago, gweimer1 said:

I may have gone a little overboard this time.

 

Very nice GW...  Could you show us the nibs?  Are you going to ink them?

 

[ruby.monkey]

Something rare and exotic this time - a Pelikan Go! M75 with pink trim. It's piston-filler school pen in the same vein as the Pelikanos and I'm interested to see how it compares to my Level L65s.