What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[Misfit]

@JonSzanto Threads get derailed all the time. At least you were sharing information that was asked for. I expect all is forgiven. 

[AmandaW]

A Lamy Safari Cozy Cream with a fine nib spotted among the Milligram summer sale items. $5.50... it seemed there was only one and I couldn't think quickly of what else to order to qualify for free shipping so I just paid the shipping.

 

I have the Cozy Strawberry as a Lamy Joy 1.1mm bought when it was released so they kind of make a pair.

[Misfit]

@AmandaW I think you’ll like the Cream version. Have you tried Pinkly yet?

[carola]

2 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

For @Misfit and @Lam1, since there isn't a dedicated Moore thread, here's a nice set with interesting band pairs.

 

 

Ooooh... Now that pair is one I would buy on the spot. Very, very nice! Love it!

[ruby.monkey]

My second steel-nib Wing Sung 630, this time black with one-piece ink window. I didn't need another one until I saw it available with squared ends, since up 'til now I've only seen that with a gold nib.

[Misfit]

I did think about it some, but because I learned of Iroful paper that I wanted to try, I put a Pilot Explorer in white with M nib to get to free shipping. 

[Lam1]

20 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

For @Misfit and @Lam1, since there isn't a dedicated Moore thread, here's a nice set with interesting band pairs.

 

 

Very, very nice set!! 

[Misfit]

@JonSzanto I’ve been looking for a Levenger True Writer Kyoto. One of the search hits was about twenty years of True Writers. I copied a point of interest. It’s about a box of pens the person was sent that belonged to his grandfather. 
 

“The Levenger Kyoto True Writer (2006) , on the left, next to its inspiration: The Moore tortoiseshell pen that George W. Knock, my grandfather, owned.”

 

Unfortunately, the photos don’t work anymore on the Levenger blog. 

[OldTravelingShoe]

On 12/28/2023 at 2:43 AM, Jayebird said:

This used/vintage Sailor, model amd year unknown. The flowers are painted on leather. No markings on the nib, but suspect its 14k or similar. Writes more smoothly and softer than my other Sailors (all new bought). Does say sailor on the cap ring and takes Sailor cartridges, but too slim for a converter.

This is a beautiful pen, thanks for sharing. It's a 1970s Sailor pen with leather coating, code 11-LG60. It cost ¥6,000 in the mid-1970s, after the financial crisis.

 

(There exists a matching ballpoint pen, code 21-NY400, and mechanical pencil, code 35-SY400.)

 

Enjoy the pen! 

[JonSzanto]

14 hours ago, Misfit said:

@JonSzanto I’ve been looking for a Levenger True Writer Kyoto. One of the search hits was about twenty years of True Writers. I copied a point of interest. It’s about a box of pens the person was sent that belonged to his grandfather. 
 

“The Levenger Kyoto True Writer (2006) , on the left, next to its inspiration: The Moore tortoiseshell pen that George W. Knock, my grandfather, owned.”

 

Unfortunately, the photos don’t work anymore on the Levenger blog. 

 

Thanks, that's a tantalizing tid-bit! Along those lines: many people bemoan the fate of a very common early celluloid - Black-and -White (or -Pearl) because it often ambered very badly from the latex sac. However, many of the examples end up looking like lovely tortoiseshell, just without any transparency. I wonder if that was what the Moore was.

[TrueBlue719]

My latest impulse was a Montblanc Starwalker BlackCosmos in m. Went into NYC to see the Rockefeller Ctr Christmas tree and made the mistake of walking through the fine jewelry section of Macy's. They have an entire Montblanc section. Spent probably an hour looking around before I pulled the trigger on that one.

[Al-fresco]

Omas Arte Italiana Noir Milord. I resisted until the shop reopened on 2nd January.

[ruby.monkey]

Not a complete pen but a Pelikan 14ct OM nib unit from a 140, which is intended as an upgrade for an old M150 to make it a daily-use pocket pen.

[PithyProlix]

On 12/28/2023 at 8:43 AM, Jayebird said:

This used/vintage Sailor, model amd year unknown. The flowers are painted on leather. No markings on the nib, but suspect its 14k or similar. Writes more smoothly and softer than my other Sailors (all new bought). Does say sailor on the cap ring and takes Sailor cartridges, but too slim for a converter.

 

 

22 hours ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

This is a beautiful pen, thanks for sharing. It's a 1970s Sailor pen with leather coating, code 11-LG60. It cost ¥6,000 in the mid-1970s, after the financial crisis.

 

(There exists a matching ballpoint pen, code 21-NY400, and mechanical pencil, code 35-SY400.)

 

Enjoy the pen! 

 

There's a photo of this one on page 338 in Fountain Pens of Japan, claiming that the nib is 14k and the flowers are Garbera (the transliterated Japanese word for gerbera).

 

Very strange that there are no markings on the nib but, shhhh, the gold Sailor and Platinum nibs of the 1970s that write soft (but definitely not flexible) can be quite wonderful.

 

Curious, @OldTravelingShoe, where you got the model numbers, please?

[Number99]

23 hours ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

It cost ¥6,000 in the mid-1970s, after the financial crisis.

Find out when the liberalization of gold imports and exports was implemented in Japan and when the gold market was opened.

The reference should be to the economic situation in Japan, not to gold price trends in other markets in other countries or regions.

Until the liberalization of the gold trade with the opening of the gold market, all gold in Japan was priced at the official price.

 

P.S.

Imports and exports were liberalized at different times, a more interesting inference could be formed by investigating why it was necessary to liberalize them.

Edited January 5, 2024 by Number99

[Surlyprof]

4 hours ago, Al-fresco said:

Omas Arte Italiana Noir Milord. I resisted until the shop reopened on 2nd January.

That is a beautiful pen!  I love ruthenium hardware on dark pens.  The texture and faceting’s great, too. Enjoy it.

[JonSzanto]

Last night, I restored the Japanese pen I posted a while ago. It arrived and was in fairly good shape. The steel nib has some corrosion but writes surprisingly well (must heat-set the feed), and everything else about the pen cleaned up easily. I'm careful not to polish the hardware on these beyond a light buff, as the plating can be notoriously thin. A new sac and it fills as expected. The pattern of this celluloid is lovely in person, rather understated and delicate. 1950s-era 2nd tier pen, a "Comet" by the Katsuyama Mfg. Co.

 

[AmandaW]

A transparent Wing Sung 601 with an EF nib. I already have a green 601a F which I really like. Expanding the experiences and wanting to see the workings of a vacumatic in action.

[Tashi_Tsering]

Noname tiny eyedropper from Japan. Externally - very similar to the Waterman’s 42 1/2 V in an Italian overlay, but with a non-retractable nib. 

[Surlyprof]

 

My first TWSBI (and first demonstrator).  I’ve had my eye on the grape mini for a while but couldn’t justify the purchase.  I was ordering 9 samples of purple ink from Van Ness and thought, “Wouldn’t this be the perfect time to buy that TWSBI grape mini? I can’t try out purple inks without a purple pen, right?”  I probably didn’t NEED it to try out purple inks but at least it got me free shipping!  
 

It’s a really nice pen, too.  Nice size and feel in the hand.  The EF nib is surprisingly smooth.  Holds a decent amount of ink.  The purple anodized details are a beautiful, saturated purple.  This will make a really nice, reasonably priced pen for EDC and sketching in the wild.