What Pen Did You Get Today?

[RemyF]

Received a ST Dupont Olympio XL chinese lacquer and palladium.

 

And a Danitrio Densho Raw Ebonite.

 

What a lovely day !

[ailleurs]

Pilot Parallel 6.0 nib It's funky and fabulous.

[Jimmy James]

M200 nib in broad, to replace an xf I loathe (it's a good nib, but I'm just not into something nearly that narrow)

 

Noodler's pens in burgundy and black

 

Merlin 33 grey (I think they'd call it grey shell)

[eslemexe]

Today my Lamy 2000 arrived! and I love it, and arrived of curse with some bottles of ink for the occasion

[iroshizuku]

sigh...got no money to add more pens.

[Jimmy James]

My second day of Raleigh's pen show brought me a black Lamy Safari (my first) in medium.

 

I also bought my wife a Lamy, this one a ballpoint Al-Star in raspberry.

[matt385]

Saturday at the Raleigh Pen Show I got a Parker 51 set from Tom/Old Gris. Next was a Pelikan 205 Blue demonstrator from Richard Binder. Finally Deb Kinney ground my Online Vision from a medium to a fine cursive italic. A very good show.

[cr0acker]

Parker Inflection Black. Great pen

[wkspear]

I don't know! But Fountain Pen Network will help me find out ;-)

[MarkAL]

I got a Namiki Falcon yesterday in the mail and I have been using it constantly since then. I'm thrilled I have to re-ink in a few minutes!

[penkid]

My OMAS emotica black medium nib arrived!!!! Inked up with zhivago.... I'm loving it. This pen is killer.

[mhwombat]

Yesterday I got my Sailor Sapporo, black w/ rhodium trim, F nib. Writes like a dream. This is going to be my main writer.

 

Today I got a lovely little Blackbird Self-Filler from the late 1930s. It has a 14K nib with a bit of flex. I got it from Andy Evans in the UK. I'm learning Hiragana at the moment, and this is perfect for writing those Japanese characters. It's like a tiny little brush! I'm learning one character a day as part of my resolve to make a clear distinction between work time and play time, and to spend my play time doing things that are fulfilling instead of feeling guilty that I'm not working. I only know three characters so far: あ (a) い (u) and う (i). I'm not learning the language, but I wanted to learn the kana so that when I do look at something written in Japanese, I might recognise the occasional word or placename that I do know.

 

Anyway, here are the pix of the Blackbird. (You all know what a Sapporo looks like.)

 

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No more pen buying for me for a while... I'm way over my pen budget. http://nualeargais.ie/pictiuir/emoticons/wombatShock.gif

[Boston Brian]

I got a fully restored Conway Stewart 55 with a rare broad stub nib, it has a very wet ink flow, which I love.

[ailleurs]

Edison Morgan in Persimmon Swirl . It writes exactly as I hoped it would, and the colors are gorgeous. A hearty to Brian at Edison Pens for such a fabulous pen.

[penkid]

Just picked up a lamy vista over lunch...

[PAKMAN]

I've been antique shop hunting in the last week or so and also been to the monthly Arkansas Pen club meeting, so I have found a number of new goodies!

 

Esterbrook Black desk pen medium nib

 

Esterbrook Black desk pen 9668 nib

 

Sheaffer desk base black square

 

1930’s Amethyst Purple dip pen glass desk base Sengbusch #46 Handi-pen desk set

 

Platignum Silverline school pen orange red with a B2 calligraphy nib

 

Esterbrook Black SJ Bell Systems Property Logo pen with 9668 nib

 

Esterbrook Dollar Pen Silver with 9460 nib

 

Pelikan 200 blue translucent demonstrator with a steel EF nib

 

Parker 51 Cedar blue demi aerometric, gold cap, fine nib

 

 

[TheToadMen]

I sent a postcard with a bunch of used stamps from Holland to a person in China through Postcrossing postcard swap. I told him he didn't have to send me stamps back since I'm not collecting anymore. I just like to give the stamps away to other folks. I got into postcrossing to have a good reason to use my fountain pen in the first place.

Well, he was so nice to send me a genuine Hero fountain pain instead from China. Areally everyday user for students. I don't know what type it is yet, but I cleaned it and filled it and it writes very nice. A pen with a story.

What a pleasant en wonderfull present to receive!!

[donwinn]

Today I received a Kaigelu 316, white veined, from Todd at isellpens.com (not affiliated). He recently got them back in stock, and even though I had purchased a brown and smoke one here on FPN a week before, I went ahead and pulled the trigger. Beautiful pen, fast shipping, great service.

 

Donnie

[TWRDO]

Today a little Birdie showed up. A Pilot Birdie, that is. I'd wanted one for a while but the little things don't pop up for sale too often, and I finally scored one in India (NOS, even!) on the dreaded auction site a couple of weeks ago.

[majorworks]

A Varuna Garuda, a (very) large black ebonite ED pen with F steel nib, is waiting for me at home. It came with a Pilot CON-70 converter as well, which is how I'll ink her up initially. I'm leaning toward Perle Noire for the baptism.