What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[Stompie]

An Amazon seller, Erofa, from who I have purchased a fair number of pens over the years, had these 619 Jinhao pens, Lamy Safari type, in a 5 pack for a mere £10 - it would be rude to ignore such an offer!

 

They arrived today and I mixed up the colour pats just for fun. All have EF nibs.

[JonSzanto]

On 9/20/2024 at 6:22 PM, OCArt said:

A lovely little Geha 760 came in the mail today in the less common pearly grey striation color. Nice 14K 585 nib, a "fine" with the clever "reserve tank" feature-- you use the cap lip to push up a small switch that then gives enough ink for a few more pages. These little pens have a soft nib that's just flexible enough for my tastes and are a joy to write with. They are small by today's standards-- 125mm capped and 150mm posted -- but fit well in my large hands and have great balance.

 

 

An excellent pickup. So reminiscent of the Pelikans of that era but enough variation to interest the eye. I like the reserve tank!

[JonSzanto]

One of the rare times I saw an Instagram post about a model release and I jumped as soon as I saw/read it. I caught it late in the day it was posted and by the time I ordered there were only XF nibs left, but fortunately this one is very smooth and I won't swap nibs as I initially thought I might. I own around a dozen Leonardos now, but this was right down the middle of my 'earth tones' aesthetic, such that I had to get it.

Leonardo Momento Zero in a Mazzucchelli cellulose acetate, a run of 77 pens for Pen Boutique (who were very nice to deal with, my first purchase from them).

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Yesterday, I ordered a Peliakan Copper Rose 200 in EF that is with the double ball that is actually a F, from my B&M.

He is not doing well as he had before Convid, in he no longer has 200's in stock... or not the LE's.

 

He has a big shop on a 'big' street, so has to make more than someone with a two car garage, and one car. I could have gotten it cheaper, but I want his shop to be there for me. 

[Misfit]

9 hours ago, Stompie said:

An Amazon seller, Erofa, from who I have purchased a fair number of pens over the years, had these 619 Jinhao pens, Lamy Safari type, in a 5 pack for a mere £10 - it would be rude to ignore such an offer!

 

They arrived today and I mixed up the colour pats just for fun. All have EF nibs.

For more fun, here’s a challenge. Mix them up in three colors each!

[Misfit]

6 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

One of the rare times I saw an Instagram post about a model release and I jumped as soon as I saw/read it. I caught it late in the day it was posted and by the time I ordered there were only XF nibs left, but fortunately this one is very smooth and I won't swap nibs as I initially thought I might. I own around a dozen Leonardos now, but this was right down the middle of my 'earth tones' aesthetic, such that I had to get it.

Leonardo Momento Zero in a Mazzucchelli cellulose acetate, a run of 77 pens for Pen Boutique (who were very nice to deal with, my first purchase from them).

 

I love how some parts of your pen glow.  

[SpencerianDream]

Tonight I decided it was time to order a Lamy 2000. One half of me thinks it’s ugly and plain and one half thinks it’s kind of cool looking and just might be the best engineered fountain pen ever. We’ll see when it arrives I guess! 

[Al-fresco]

Stipula Isola Lupari - love at first sight.  And, before you ask, yes, the piston does have 'issues.'

[Al-fresco]

4 hours ago, SpencerianDream said:

Tonight I decided it was time to order a Lamy 2000. One half of me thinks it’s ugly and plain and one half thinks it’s kind of cool looking and just might be the best engineered fountain pen ever. We’ll see when it arrives I guess! 

I've had one for years.  Lots of good things going for it - reliable, spare nibs easily available, doesn't dry out, ink window.  The one con is those irritating little 'ears' right where I want to put my fingers.  But if I needed to chose a pen that my life depended on it would probably be a Lamy 2K.

[ruby.monkey]

A semi-impulsive purchase - it's a pen I've been meaning to buy, just not right now - but a seller on ebay offered me a tidy Aurora 98 Riserva Magica for a pretty good price, so that's now my Christmas present to myself.

[Armo]

After aquiring a Wearever Deluxe a couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to get hold of a Wearever Pacemaker. Although they may be common enough in the States, they not not often seen in the UK. It came minus a pressure bar and button but that was not a complicted fix. Again another very attractive pen for what was apparently very cheap in its day. Looks very much like black and abalone stripes although is of course nothing so exotic. Has the original 14k nib.

[USG]

On 12/17/2024 at 2:35 PM, Bo Bo Olson said:

Yesterday, I ordered a Peliakan Copper Rose 200 in EF that is with the double ball that is actually a F, from my B&M.

He is not doing well as he had before Convid, in he no longer has 200's in stock... or not the LE's.

 

He has a big shop on a 'big' street, so has to make more than someone with a two car garage, and one car. I could have gotten it cheaper, but I want his shop to be there for me. 

That’s a beautiful pen.  Enjoy.  😀👍

[USG]

On 12/21/2024 at 1:31 AM, SpencerianDream said:

Tonight I decided it was time to order a Lamy 2000. One half of me thinks it’s ugly and plain and one half thinks it’s kind of cool looking and just might be the best engineered fountain pen ever. We’ll see when it arrives I guess! 

 

On 12/21/2024 at 5:53 AM, Al-fresco said:

I've had one for years.  Lots of good things going for it - reliable, spare nibs easily available, doesn't dry out, ink window.  The one con is those irritating little 'ears' right where I want to put my fingers.  But if I needed to chose a pen that my life depended on it would probably be a Lamy 2K.

+1 👍😀 on Lamy 2000.  Mine has an OM that writes broad.   It’s filled with Private Reserve American Blue.

[SpencerianDream]

Reporting back: the Lamy 2000 is a very good pen. People aren’t wrong when it’s consistently a top choice. I look at it and say “If someone could make this pen but with some baroque aesthetics and a Sailor nib…” The nib is functional -and good- but much wider than I like. I knew this would be the case going into it though. But the rest of the pen is seriously top notch. Good enough that I kind of want to write a full on review just to talk about all the little things it gets right. 

[JonSzanto]

On 12/17/2024 at 4:14 PM, Misfit said:

I love how some parts of your pen glow.  

 

Boy, this is waaay late, but thank you. Sunlight is remarkable on this pen.

[Mechanical]

39 minutes ago, SpencerianDream said:

Reporting back: the Lamy 2000 is a very good pen. People aren’t wrong when it’s consistently a top choice. I look at it and say “If someone could make this pen but with some baroque aesthetics and a Sailor nib…” The nib is functional -and good- but much wider than I like. I knew this would be the case going into it though. But the rest of the pen is seriously top notch. Good enough that I kind of want to write a full on review just to talk about all the little things it gets right. 

 

It's a thoughtfully designed pen, isn't it?  I'm very happy with my Lamy 2000 in Fine, which I find just right for every day writing.  I do find myself thinking about getting a OM or OB.

[carola]

There is a pen I have been eyeballing for a few years now: Pelikan "Spirit of Gaudi". I have always loved the looks, but for every single pen I have seen come up on ebay, the asking price was far above of what I was willing to pay for it.

 

And then, this morning, I went onto ebay for something completely different but still had the Spirit of Gaudi typed into the search field from a visit a week or two ago. I hit the refresh button as I usually do and there it was. An auction that would end in a quarter of an hour, the price was in a range where I was willing to think about it, with the pen came the complete the inner and outer box and there were absolutely no bids. Even better, the seller was from Spain, so no additional charges (tax, custom duties) except for the postage for me. I had about 15 minutes to think about it and 30 seconds before the auction ended, I decided to go for the minimum bid and if anybody decided to place an even slightly higer bid, well, so be it.

 

30 seconds later it turned out that I was in fact the only bidder and the pen is mine now.

[inkstainedruth]

Not completely impulsive, but I bought one of the Lamy al-Star "Harry Potter" SE pens.  I wanted to wait until I could see the pens in person, but went to the Lamy SoHo store in NYC (yeah, paid a little more plus NYC sales tax, and didn't realize it didn't have a converter installed ) and picked up the "Ravenclaw" pen with a medium nib (decided I didn't like the Griffyndor color enough, KNEW I didn't want the Slytherin one, and -- as I had suspected -- the Hufflepuff color was a bit too close to the Jinhao 599 someone gave me a few years ago).

Also went to Fountain Pen Hospital (no, they have NOT moved after all -- they're still on Warren Street in lower Manhattan) and got a backup bottle of Waterman Tender Purple, since mine seems to have gone walkabout.  Sadly, they didn't seem to have Waterman Mysterious Blue on the shelf, so I'll have to wait on that one -- my current bottle is getting low, though...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Gloucesterman]

Just popped for two Townsend Flattops - a yellow one w/ green ends and a green one w/ black ends.

Both have 14k nibs. Might have them before the New Year... or not!

[JonSzanto]

1 hour ago, carola said:

30 seconds later it turned out that I was in fact the only bidder and the pen is mine now.

 

A VERY big congratulations to you!