What Pen Did You Get Today?

[sdcurnow]

Sumgai! Picked up a Sheaffer Balance Vac-Fil with a fine #3 nib. Still works! $22.50

[Romagno]

Today, I received in the mail:

 

a Sheaffer's Balance - lever-fill multicolored celluloid (greay-red-silver), nickel furniture with a hump clip - needs a new sac but is otherwise very nice

 

-and-

 

a 1949 (last quarter) P51 Flighter set in the original gold-embossed brown leatherette presentation case - blue satin liner is perfect. the pen and pencil are nearly perfect as well.

[Beechwood]

 

 

A Parker 51

 

Described as "unused"

 

£30

 

 

 

 

[OnTheBayou]

Got my grail pen, the Pelikan Blue M200 demonstrator. Been discontinued for years and impossible to find. Got an uninked one. Woohoo!

 

 

Terri

[McPete]

I have confirmed there is a Lamy 2000 F, along with a bottle of Noodler's Coral Sea blue waiting for me when I get home... I'm leaving work now, can't wait!

 

EDIT; I've inked it, and I've written a few words. I'm in love. The ink and the pen are fantastic.

Edited June 9, 2009 by McPete

[zenhikester]

Picked up a Wearever Supreme for a song and after a bit of cleaning it inked up and writes a nice fine line. I know, just a Wearever........BUT it writes and it sold for 29 cents back in it's heyday, so it has to have some history, right??

regards

[LDB415]

I got a Tipo rollerball in blue metallic. It operates with one hand and lets me enjoy a rollerball, the next best thing to a fpn. I got it at Dromgoole's for $11.20 plus tax so it was a good deal too.

 

http://www.lamyusa.com/tipoaluminium.html

[liapuyat]

From Australia Post: A previously owned Pilot VP Black Carbonesque with a smooth medium cursive italic - I love it!

 

From eBay:

 

A Wahl ripple gold-filled ringtop pen and pencil set in their original (but cracked and peeling) box. The pen has a sweet #2 fine flex nib, although I have to replace the sac. The pencil, I am surprised to find, has a refill lead in it! I am also getting a new chain for this, as I also want to wear the pencil as a fashion accessory.

 

A Waterman 52 1/2V BCHR ringtop, sporting a Moore #2 oblique medium flex nib. I was surprised that I like how smoothly it writes, and how it adds character to my handwriting. It also needs a replacement sac and chain (original chain it came with has lost its plating in parts).

 

Sacs arriving in the mail, and experienced collector friend will help me install them.

[solitaire]

Dear Daedalus1

You are right that the MB plastic is likely to suffer fatal damage to the barrel if dropped on to a hard surface but the two times when I have had this happen was with 1) a Stipula 22 and 2) a Pelikan 400.

 

Although most of the resins used for FPs have powdered glass I believe MB has extra glass to give it a unique shine which the German customers appreciate.

 

How about looking out for the Sterlin Silver MB 146 or the vermeil version?. They are not too hard to find and unlike most other pens are likely to increase in value in the long run.

 

Solitaire

 

 

[LDB415]

When we had our store I used to take my Duofold from my pocket and whack it on the counter edge a time or two to show customers how solid they were. I'd never have tried that with any other pen. It would shatter. Nothing I know of beats a Duofold for rugged beauty. The others are what we'd call all hat and no cattle.

[liapuyat]

A seemingly indestructible Rotring Newton in matte black metal and a fine nib. I loved how rugged and industrial it looked.

[Gdowne]

Just received a Franklin Christoph 1901 model from a fellow FPN member in Florida. I must say this a quite a beautiful and beefy pen that lays down an impeccably smooth, wet line. If fact, since I have not seen a single review of this pen on here, I believe I need to post a review soon. Thanks, David, it's a beaut!

[dogpoet]

A Crocodile CR12. Quite a handsome beast finished in a leather effect. Can't comment on how it writes until I've inked it, though.

[Rotring1]

My new (well new to me) Ford's Patent Pen! However, not working, but hopefully it only needs a trip to a restorer.

 

 

 

 

[sdcurnow]

I finally received my Pilot M90....ahhhh.

[Edgar Allan Bo]

I received a Pelikan M200 with 0,9 stub nib from Richard Binder, I opened the package... and this is the REST OF THE STORY!

[donwinn]

Don't know for sure yet, but my Levenger Decathlon is scheduled to arrive today! For $25.95 shipped! :bunny01:

 

Donnie

[Simplo]

A Conway Stewart Duro-Point "Dinkie" Nº 526 set, red color set (1931-1935) with original box.

Very beautiful

 

 

[zenhikester]

My Rotring Core got here. Great pen for bashing around in the woods

[PaulT00]

My new Aurora 88 arrived this afternoon from Paolo (sanpei). Near mint condition, with original case and paperwork, refurbished piston mechanism and hands down the softest, most flexible fine nib in my collection. I've never been in a position to try a wet noodle but the definition is supposed to be a pen which flexes with the barest touch - by that definition this Aurora feels pretty noodly to me! It's so soft and flexy that it takes a very light hand not to flex it at all. Notably flexier than the one on my Waterman 52 1/2V. The flow is also pretty wet (with Iroshizuku Asa-Gao "sky blue") and at full flex it's like writing with a paintbrush...

 

Not that I'm complaining, mind you! I just didn't expect it to be quite *that* flexy.