What Pen Did You Get Today?

[Doug Add]

Edison Herald in red/black swirl ebonite with 18k Aurora fine nib. Here is a link to a post with Brian's pictures and my description of the modifications he made. It performs as beautifully as it appears.

 

Uncapped it has almost identical dimensions to my Aurora 88, so it is like having a lovely ebonite Aurora that can be an ED fill pen. If only Aurora could be so responsive to a customer's wishes when designing and making a pen--Brian is the man!

Edited November 27, 2009 by Doug Add

[mirko]

Pelikan M605.

First real Pelikan!

[Bull Winkle]

I love the silver pelikans, I couldn't step up to a 605, had to settle for a 205 but love it still

[PAKMAN]

I had a nice ebay find: Carmine red Sheaffer Balance (lever fill) pen with pencil and nice condition case in perfect working condition. The pen and pencil have a huge gold signature band.

[RHutch]

Today my Sailor Realo with a fine nib came in what a great pen. It's inked up with some new Private Reserve Grey Flannel ink. I hope Sailor will make a Pro Gear with a pistol filler.

[withoutink]

Waterman phileas Blue Marble Medium from Office Max for $9.99

Edited November 29, 2009 by withoutink

[HBlaine]

Today was, shall we say, a good day. I received my Bexley Poseidon in Tortoise from Mr. Binder today, and it was quickly filled with Noodler's AirCorp Blue-Black.

 

Then, coming home this evening, I found a big package on my front porch from Todd Nussbaum at Isellpens. A new pen case, a bottle of Noodler's Green Marine, and... A Bexley Simplicity in Cracked Ice. The pen and the accompanying ink were quickly united.

 

Both Bexley's are in my pocket, and I've been putting both of them through their paces. Both are, simply put, excellent pens.

 

It's been a good day. In a way, a bit melancholic. No more pens for me for some time. But... I'll definitely enjoy what I have!

Edited November 29, 2009 by HBlaine

[flymark]

Oxo Retractable Ball Pen from Staples, 2 for $6.99. Ergonomic, well-designed kitchen utensils meet writing instruments.

[cocojj]

My blue Esterbrook arrived much earlier than expected! It's my first vintage pen.

Edited December 2, 2009 by cocojj

[Doug Add]

Not a pen for me, but my son's blue stripe Pelikan 800 arrived in today's mail.

[reprieve]

My Nakaya order from John Mottishaw arrived today. Heaven! It was a long wait (nearly four months), but so so so worth it.

[Bo Bo Olson]

The Small Mercedes black pen # 95 OF. It is the smallest pen I have. The nib is OF,and flexible, how ever some one real good is going to have to smooth that thing. A paper bag helped a lot, but there is a lot to go. There does not look like there is much to work with under a 10 x loop.

One can not write un-posted.

...................It is 4 5/8ths closed, 5 3/8ths posted, 4 3/16s un-posted.

The Pelikan 140 is 4 13/16th closed, 5 5/8ths, 4 7/16ths un-posted. It was my smallest. It too was too small to write with un-posted, but in comparison, one could if one had to. Not so with the tiny Mercedes pen.

 

I had thought it the same size as the Mercedes cap I had that fit the 400 Pelikan, but it is not. The cap of the small Mercedes is too small/narrow by a hair. The cap is plastic, the gold in the Mercedes is gone.

 

The inner cap I had, with the gold printing of Mercedes still on it and good, is metal. It fits my Pelikan 400 just fine.

 

No problem with the cap where the gold of Mercedes wore off. If it bothers me I'll go down to my gold smith, whom I hope to have do some nib work, in that in her first two years as an apprentice, they did nibs. That was years ago, I'd have to start her off with some nothing special nibs.

 

How ever.....by comparing my Pelikan 400 to those Mercedes caps, and the black cap of the Pelikan 140, the end of the piston and the cap...they are a very dark black Brown!!!!!!! Brown tinged black. Hurray...some where having a tortoise in brown is better.

 

Which could mean, the body is older than I thought. The nib is more modern, in the slits are not longitudinal. I got to look that up, I recall there were less brown made than black or something in that direction.....but it takes a bit of will power to see brown. Pelikan to Pelikan, it's black brown, or brown black....but only if you gave a dam.

My wife who has good eyes said it is "brown".

 

Looks like I now have room for a Black Capped 400. ...Right.

 

 

A week ago I got a maroon P-51, that writes good, how ever the Ebay man who sold it, knew it had been repaired by an idiot once. It works but the breathing tube should not be on the side, around a skinny sack, with a glob of plastic in the throat of the collector. That's off to England, next year to get new guts.

 

He knew much too much about pens to be so stupid. I rated him poor as hell too, I gave him 3 3/4ths days to reply to me, and he didn't.

sorry the pictures don't work....

 

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Edited December 3, 2009 by Bo Bo Olson

[offbase]

Big day today at the house of offbase! We received a nice, big USPS package ... opened it up ... and out popped a nice big Visconti Templari for Offy, and a Disney Fantasia for Mrs. Offy! Things being what they are financially I probably shouldn't have done it, but man, is this pen (and the box, and the wax seal, and the velvet bag ...) something else. I'm afraid to ink it.

[DaleR]

U.K.-made Parker Reflex, in blue, for $6.99 at Tuesday Morning.

 

Dale

Edited December 3, 2009 by DaleR

[djh]

A new Lamy 2000 with a B nib. But "ssssshhh!!" please. It is a Christmas gift for my wife.

[tonybelding]

Two antique dip-pens arrived today, one bone and one pearl. The bone one has a broken tip, unfortunately. . . But it's OK, I got them for a song anyhow. The pearl one is in good shape, but they are both quite small. They were meant for a more dainty hand than mine, I'm sure.

 

I also got a gray Sheaffer Snorkel Statesman yesterday, it's in good shape and seems like a practical no-nonsense pen. I may carry this for a while.

[withoutink]

I just received a beautiful vintage Conway Stewart Dandy #720 from a gentleman from FPN in Australia. I love it!

 

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[PP_THAI]

I just got Lamy Studio white pearl with platinum nib with the large Lamy Blue ink bottle.

It quite nice Pen to use.Sorry that i have not the camera around to take the photo.

[lmp]

A Lamy Safari, a Pilot 78G and a Pelikano Junior for my kids... and a Pilot VP for me

[Bo Bo Olson]

A black Artus Favorite, an odd one, the blind cap don't come off. An Artus Ballit the blind cap comes off.

 

The piston is still a bit sticky from old dried out orange ink. I also got a spare nib, a Artus 93 S B, that must have been the original nib, because the one on the pen says Iridium point W. Germany. Dipped it writes medium.

 

The spare nib Artus 93 S B, I have some hope it is semi-flexible by two reasons, the S which might mean soft...the B well that can not be Broad, in it is narrow. It is rather flexible on my thumb nail, the one that is on the pen is not.

 

I got to find out what FK means in German terminology.

 

I love having options.

 

I have another Artus body with no defining name, with a 92 nib with no iridium...some one filed it off. It is a Frankenstein pen, but the cap is ok a bit classy...so I can live with it, with a new "semi-flexible" nib, I can live with it very well.