What Pen Did You Get Today?

[guy]

Got back my Parker "51" - dove grey aeromatic. Don't know the date of the pen as the barrel code has been polished away (just England is visable).

 

Anyway, its been away across the pond with a certain Mr.Binder. He's restored it and reshaped the fine nib for me. Just dipped it now in Diamine Sapphire Blue and the smoothness is fabulous. I now feel the borg summoning me closer

Edited May 23, 2007 by guy

[coco]

Got it yesterday...ice blue Pilot VP, medium nib. Filled it with Blue Suede and have been using it ever since. I think this will become a daily writer.

[donwinn]

Couple of days ago I posted that something came from HKong while I was at work - update - it was paper! Pads of Hello Kitty paper, which I did not order, sent from HKong by the folks from whom I ordered a Hello Kitty mini-notebook/pen set (for my granddaughter). US value of pads about $0.25, postage several dollar, and it was marked gift, and I did not order or pay for it.

 

Yesterday I was so excited I didn't post this, but I got two pens in the mail. A Parker 21 from eBay (VERY nice, looks almost like new and writes like a dream) and a Pilot 2A from Art Addict via Marketplace (likewise very nice, love that Japanese F nib). Had to soapy water flush both, although neither really needed it, but I don't want to break my pattern, then filled the Pilot with Noodler's LCR (la coleur royale) and the Parker with Skrip BB. I put the BB in the Parker, so I can alternate the 21 and the 51 at work. Now I will have to rearrange my pen carriers. I'll have one with 2 Pelikans (M100 & Grand Prix) and 2 Parkers (21 & 51) and move the 2 Watermans to my secondary, and put a couple more into rotation.

 

I still have a 45 F in transit from France, as well as a Pilot Elite Big Cap from Thailand, plus the M200 I won yesterday.

 

I am almost done collecting - honest - I can quit any time.

 

Hello, my name is Donnie and I am a fountain pen addict.

[sclt45]

I just received my 1950's MB 146G yesterday. Wow!!

[alfredop]

I have just received a sea black waterman carene, a very good pen in my opinion.

So I have not mantained my promise to not buy pens for at least three months. At least I got a very good deal.

 

Genny

[Rasputin]

Just received my new Pelikan M200, blue marble w/black cap and medium stub italic courtesy Richard Binder. Fantastic writing pen. Very smooth.

[BrianTung]

Not a pen, but a carrying case for my Montblanc pencil, rollerball, and the Frankenpen.

[Samovar]

I bought the new black Lamy Safari with F nib. I'm really happy I got it.

 

Samovar

[garyc]

Burnham B48 from eBay. Just spruced it up, re-aligned tines, new sac and it writes like a dream. Will review it shortly.

[Srehman]

I guess it's graduation season... I spoiled myself for my graduation from fellowship and birthday combined, I got me a Sailor 1911, fine nib, black with silver trim.

 

Pam Braun rocks...!

[jonro]

Isn't it time for this thread to get pinned? Today, from eBay, is a NOS Platinum pen from the '70s. I don't have a model number, but they didn't have that many pens out at that time. It has a very smooth fine nib (extra fine by Western standards). It's long, somewhat slim and I like it.

[fitzharry]

Today I bought a Waterman Edson Diamond Black. I'd been looking at the Edson Sapphire Blue for years, but couldn't bring myself to buy it because it was just so flashy. However, after I saw the Diamond Black I knew I wanted one now, and I traded in one of my other pens for it. It is certainly the smoothest writing pen I've ever used of any kind, and I like it so much I may even go and buy the Sapphire Blue just so I can have two!

[krz]

Today a black 30's Aikin Lambert Co. "Capitol Cabinet" - 4" vest pen with a nice gothic deco clip with the brightest chrome of all my pens.

 

The nib is a lovely MF full flex. I'm having trouble putting it down.

[cercamons]

Well, this weekend anyway. On Saturday, we visited Bishop, California, where there a are a couple of antique shops. In the first one I found a red Esterbrook $1.50 pen for eight bucks. It's my first Esterbrook and seems to be in perfect condition, or will be once I get the sac replaced. In the second shop, there were a couple of black Sheaffers in an old Sheaffer box for $60. One was the oversize, lever-filling Balance that I have been getting outbid on for some time now. I offered $50 for the Balance, even though the feed looked kind of flaky. The lady threw in the box. When I got home and soaked the nib, the feed was in perfect condition. Popped on a new sac and I have my pen. I am really pleased because this completed a mini collection of representative Balances, and it writes beautifully. Here is a picture of both pens in the Sheaffer box.

 

I am amazed that you can still stumble over nice pens at a fraction of the price you would pay on eBay or FPN. (My wife got my first Balance Jr. for $7.50!) But lest you think I am a savvy buyer, I have included a picture of my other purchases. I also got a Parker 45 desk pen that I was fantasizing was at least a 21, two beat up straight razors, some ceramic animals, Budweiser tip trays and last but not least a salamander that grows 1000 times larger when soaked in water. My wife kept looking at me like I had traded the family cow for some beans. I console myself that I would have bought all that junk whether or not I found some great pens.

 

Good hunting!

[cercamons]

Sorry, I thought the pictures would be small. If any moderator can reduce them I would be very grateful. Steve

[Djehuty]

This weekend I received one of those green-plaid patterned pens from Charles Hubert, then back to China for a blue Hua Hong #1518 with pewter (or at least pewter-colored, I'm not sure which) furniture, and, because I could no longer resist the gaudiness, a Jinhao "Dragon's Descendant" in pewter. It came in a really neat presentation box, with a little wood-slat scroll which makes me wish I could read Chinese. I'd love to know what it says.

 

Photos borrowed from ISellPens.com, which is where I purchased the pens:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 28, 2007 by Djehuty

[dwmatteson]

An excellent pen day indeed!

 

At work, I received a 2003 Omas Paragon in Venice Blue with a Mottishawed fine nib. Inked immediately with Diamine Prussian Blue and it's out of this world!

 

At home, I received a burgundy Parker "51" with gold-filled cap that I purchased from Oxonian. It's a sweet writer (PR Burgundy Mist, if you must know) and looks fabulous!

 

Don

[BrianTung]

This weekend I received one of those green-plaid patterned pens from Charles Hubert, then back to China for a blue Hua Hong #1518 with pewter (or at least pewter-colored, I'm not sure which) furniture, and, because I could no longer resist the gaudiness, a Jinhao "Dragon's Descendant" in pewter. It came in a really neat presentation box, with a little wood-slat scroll which makes me wish I could read Chinese. I'd love to know what it says.

 

The wood-slat scroll appears far too small in that picture to make out what it says, but the two large characters, as you might have guessed, are jin1 hao2 金豪, two characters meaning "gold" and "great/heroic," respectively. On the right side of the clip are four characters in a cartouche-like oval; these are written in the so-called clerical script, and read long2 de chuan2 ren2 龍的傳人, four characters meaning "dragon," a possessive, "transfer," and "person," respectively, and which naturally combine to mean "dragon's descendant."

 

On the other side of the cap, to the left of the clip, is a column of characters in so-called seal script; these represent the characters in nearly their embryonic form, and the last four read min2 zu2 ling2 hun2 民族靈魂, meaning, roughly speaking, "national spirit." Just above these is another character, whose bottom portion is all that is visible; I suspect that this is nian2 年 "year," but it's hard for me to say for sure. Perhaps someone who is more adept at reading seal script can confirm/deny. (The picture is on the Jinhao page; it's not one of the pictures that Djehuty included in his post.)

 

Hope that was informative; I enjoyed hunting down some of these characters (I cannot read seal script without some effort).

[Splicer]

Today, two Rotrings I was curious about arrived in my mailbox: a Rotring New Orleans in a medium point and a Rotring Rive. I'm terrified that the Rive is actually an alien seedpod and that it's going to start chasing me around. It's actually pretty comfortable, but very light and insubstantial. The New Orleans is much more like what I expect from Rotring, although a bit small for my taste.

 

I have another Rotring on its way to me but it has not arrived yet. When it does I'll write up a more detailed comparison.

[shahrincamille]

Today I received a Sailor 1911 Clear Demonstrator with a 14K ZOOM nib bought from japan_antique a.k.a. engeika from eBay

 

Very nice pen - in fact it looks much better in your hands compared to what you see in the pictures. Filled mine with Pelikan Blue-Black

 

But the Zoom nib needs.... errr... some getting used to, though :embarrassed_smile: . You need to vary the angle you hold the pen to paper, the lower the angle you get a thick, fat, wet line (and since its a demonstrator, you can see the ink go down - fast - in real time), while increasing the angle thins out the line. So this is how this nib gets the 'Zoom' name, as it behaves not unlike a camera's zoom lens. And you can even rotate the nib 180 degrees to get a smooth, though substantially drier, EF line

 

 

 

Shahrin