What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[awa54]

3 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

Back from the San Francisco Pen Show and recovered from the drive... My one big purchase wasn't particularly impulsive so I'll post it elsewhere. However, on Friday night was the auction of pens to benefit the Pen Collectors of America programs, and I figured I'd find something to bid on. I settled on a lot of 2 vintage Waterman pens, a Lady Patricia in Onyx and a 52-1/2 in Cardinal. The LP has a lovely, fine and soft flexing nib, while the 52 has an interesting semi-flex stub. They are now most of the way through restoration, I just have to put sacs in. Honestly, I thought one of my pals was going to keep going higher in the bidding, but my last (and final) bid was exactly that! Oh well, it was for a good cause.

 

 

 

I have a Waterman with a flexy stub too, it's amazing to write with and somewhat addictive!

[Misfit]

I impulsively ordered another Conklin Duragraph, this time the Ice Blue version with 1.1mm stub nib. 

[Monophoto]

A Platinum GO with the 1.1mm stub.  Just to be different.

[ruby.monkey]

I just bought a Waterman's 515 on ebay - it was a little tatty but was cheap and, more importantly, had a no. 5 Account nib that seemed in good order. I guess I'll find out in a few days whether it was worth the purchase.

[inkstainedruth]

On 8/27/2024 at 3:59 PM, Penguincollector said:

  I found a cute Esterbrook CX-100  cartridge pen for my school pen micro collection; Kirk Speer has NOS  vintage cartridges, so to reach free shipping I was looking at his used pen section, and found a blue tartan Sheaffer Fashion II that I had been looking for, so now I have 2 blue pens coming. 

OOOH.  A blue tartan Sheaffer Fashion?  Do tell!    Pix when you get it!

I found a black one at an estate sale a while back (don't know for certain if it's a Fashion I or Fashion II but my notes say it was a Fashion I) but promptly lost it.... 

It had the converter installed and a couple of cartridges of Skrip Black in the bottom of the box.  The sad part is that I paid five bucks for it, and will be unlikely to find replacements for it (in ANY color) for that good a price.  And that the sale where I got it had several others (also black) as well, and passed on them because I didn't know enough about the model at that point.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

11 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

A blue tartan Sheaffer Fashion?  Do tell!    Pix when you get it!

    I will for sure post pictures when I get it.  I know that Teri stocks Fashion I and II pens at Peyton Street. She has a green tartan II right now. Prices have risen considerably since I started collecting them; $5 is Sumgai territory now. I hope it’s in a bag you haven’t looked in, or in the couch/ favorite chair.  Sometimes I find my pens in between the car seat and the door, or the seat and the center console. The I version is the super slim version that has uses the Skrip II skinny cartridge (if these were in the pen box, be aware that they sell for $10 apiece now) the II uses regular size cartridges. 

[inkstainedruth]

Before I lost the pen (sigh) I was showing it to a friend and he was interested in it and looked them up online on his phone and found what turned out to be the Peyton Street Pens website.  

And while I know their pens are generally restored, I didn't pay ANYTHING like the prices they're asking (although I'm sort of tempted by the blue one they have at the moment).  I looked up my inventory notes just now and I paid $5 US for it, including the two cartridges in the box, and bought that one rather than the other ones at the sale because it had the converter already installed.  

I keep hoping the pen will turn up, at some point.  But I've lost several other pens over the past few months (not the least of which being the 51 Vac with the T6 date code on it -- still inked up, BTW  and the newly refilled TWSBI 700-Vac (just lost a few weeks ago, and *right* after I inked it up...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

@inkstainedruth I hope you lost them in your house. Or maybe in a purse. 

[inkstainedruth]

Well, the 700-Vac MIGHT be in the minivan (I searched the Prius pretty thoroughly when I was getting trash out of it a couple of days ago).  But I have a bad feeling it got lost when I was going up to the campground for the other hobby a few weeks ago -- and didn't think to check Lost & Found because I had so much to do (plus driving back and forth about 45 each way every day for the better part of 2 weeks), the way I did when I dropped the M405 Stresemann and didn't realize until I went to show the pen to someone & couldn't find it.

Fortunately THAT pen got turned in to Lost & Found before someone ran over it in a fully loaded truck hauling a fully loaded trailer.... (whew!).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

May the pen force be with you, and it’s in the van @inkstainedruth

[Mechanical]

On 8/28/2024 at 4:23 AM, Monophoto said:

A Platinum GO with the 1.1mm stub.  Just to be different.

I really like these TWSBI GO pens for trying out new inks.  That spring-action plunger mechanism quickly cleans out the old ink.  Out with the old and in with the new in about a minute.  

[inkstainedruth]

10 hours ago, Misfit said:

May the pen force be with you, and it’s in the van @inkstainedruth

  I certainly hope so....

Unfortunately, it's just so hot and humid that I don't really want to go back outside at the moment, after running to the post office and the grocery store and to the local CVS....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Armo]

It is a piston filler and has a cork seal. It has a 14k Degussa nib and a striped ink window. It is 128mm capped. That is all I know, the pen has no markings. Came with a Sheaffer 400 pencil.

[Penguincollector]

That’s a lovely set, @Armo! The hooded section made of the same celluloid as the barrel is strking and something I haven’t seen before. 

[Prof Drew]

I just received the ēnsso bolt fountain pen. I bought it on Kickstarter with an additional clip. I fell in love with the convenience of retractable nibs with the Pilot Capless / Vanishing Point, but I'm a sucker for this kind of titanium look. You can see their video (here) or FigBoot's review (here).

 

Photo is of the ēnsso bolt with Apica CD11 notebook and the Wet Pen Rainer Blue ink. Happy writing!

[inkstainedruth]

Went to some antiques stores earlier today (mostly to get out of the house).  And at the second one spotted some pens in a case, after finding a half full bottle of vintage Skrip "Permantent Royal Blue" (the box says, on the lower part of each side of the box):

SHEAFFER's

52

SUCCESSOR TO INK

One of the pens, a little light blue pen, with black finials on the barrel and cap, caught my eye because it was something I'd never seen before.  No pix yet (I got home and had dinner and then had to do a bunch of stuff before logging into FPN) but the barrel and the clip both say "SHIRLEY TEMPLE").  I did a quick Google search and found someone's website/blog about the person's having repaired one, and the person said that it was apparently made by some company which sounds like it was a sub-brand of Wearever....  Oddly, I found some page on FB which looks into odd stuff in history, and showed an old newspaper photo of the actress (as a child) "signing" her autograph which, according to the information posted, was some model Parker from the early 1930s (and was "red" instead of the "standard" black because someone at Parker figured out how to do ebonite in other colors.  I mentioned the pen I'd just gotten, and what I'd found out about it so far, which the person, whose page it was on, found really interesting.  (The newspaper photo, while obviously black and white, definitely showed the Parker pen Shirley Temple was holding to NOT be dark black (except maybe for stuff like the finials).  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[jchch1950]

Congratulations you may have found a special pen.

[Number99]

10 hours ago, Prof Drew said:

I just received the ēnsso bolt fountain pen. I bought it on Kickstarter with an additional clip. I fell in love with the convenience of retractable nibs with the Pilot Capless / Vanishing Point, but I'm a sucker for this kind of titanium look. You can see their video (here) or FigBoot's review (here).

 

Photo is of the ēnsso bolt with Apica CD11 notebook and the Wet Pen Rainer Blue ink. Happy writing!

That is a very cool pen!

I wonder, if you use it in front of someone and keep it a secret that this is a fountain pen, how long will it take that person to realize that this is a fountain pen...?

[Prof Drew]

Thank you @Number99, I also wonder if people will realize it's a fountain pen or just a funky ballpoint. I have a funky ballpoint by Aurora (These) my mother gave me, but people who know me will probably wonder if I can use a 'normal' pen again

 

Have a good week.

[inkstainedruth]

@jchch1950 -- Thanks!  

Admittedly, it's probably a third tier brand, but it was a little different from anything I'd seen before.  And, while the gold plating has mostly worn off, the nib does seem to be in decent condition otherwise.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth