What's Your Most Recent Addition To The Flock? 2016

[gordonhooker]

This.

 

 

A great way to start the year. :-)

Love the colour - enjoy.....

[oregano]

Wow Soot That is an outstanding pen! I have never seen anything like that on eBay!

[FOUR X FOUR]

M 800. Medium nib. The color is more impressive than the pen.

[christof]

This.

 

A great way to start the year. :-)

Congrats Bob!

 

These are a league of their own.

 

c.

[Christopher Godfrey]

I love that pen, Soot! It is gorgeous. Now, here is what arrived for <me> yesterday -- in the company of its modern cousin and also my 100NNs...(and there is something non-Pelikan on its way from Herr Christof, too...how <am> I going to pay the rent next month?)

 

This 101 Tortoise came from Tom Westerich, who is <very> charming and nice to deal with; the modern red tortoise came from the ever-gracious Rick Propas and I await an Osmia from himself -- Christof, who is also absolutely wonderful to deal with! Anyone who fancies a 100 -- I know he has a lovely one for sale, right now.

Edited January 8, 2016 by Christopher Godfrey

[Soot]

 

Wow soot! A great way to start, endure, and complete a whole year. Fabulous pen!

Love the colour - enjoy.....

Wow Soot That is an outstanding pen! I have never seen anything like that on eBay!

 

Thanks, all!

 

Congrats Bob!

 

These are a league of their own.

 

c.

 

Yes, they are! I am still searching for the two-ring version... That's a tough one! You got real lucky with that one. :-)

 

I love that pen, Soot! It is gorgeous.

 

I used to have a few tortoise 101N, but at the end I am more attracted to the 400s so I sold all my 101s.

[Raif79]

http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a479/Raif79/96be6b68-6e2b-4025-acd3-7c6ee6f34db2_zps7rs4rx2a.jpg

 

It's growing on me.

[OCArt]

This.

 

 

A great way to start the year. :-)

 

Soot, can you tell us about this beautiful pen. Is it a 140? How is this extra-beautiful tortoise described?

Thanks, Dave

[dnic]

It is a very nice 400NN light tortoise! Great catch soot!

[4lex]

Visconti Homo Sapiens Lava Steel. It was an impulse buy on KJ Beckett website. On sale with 40% discount, £194. I tried this pen before and if it would have an ink window I would buy it a while ago. Still, a good pen for the price I paid. Very nice fine palladium nib. And material really is scratch resistant.

 

[Soot]

 

Soot, can you tell us about this beautiful pen. Is it a 140? How is this extra-beautiful tortoise described?

Thanks, Dave

 

Hi Dave,

 

Like dnic stated above, it's a 400NN light tortoise.

[inkstainedruth]

Hi and, happy new year to all.

I have been looking for a Pelikan holder for ages and finally found this lapis blue bird for a reasonable price.

Unfortunately I am moving and most of my pens packed away in storage so don't have anything "Pelikan" to feed it.

Right now it is at work desk with a MB Boheme pencil in its bill, I figured at least its German.

 

http://www.maryhatay.com/Mark/Fountain-Pens/Mixed-Pens/i-sCnjJ7W/0/O/s-l500.jpg

Nice. I've mostly seen the white ones for sale (and generally for more -- a LOT more -- than I'm willing to pay.

I have a small sized gold stand, but I would happily trade it (box and all) for a small blue one.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jmccarty3]

Nice. I've mostly seen the white ones for sale (and generally for more -- a LOT more -- than I'm willing to pay.

I have a small sized gold stand, but I would happily trade it (box and all) for a small blue one.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

Ruth, I bought mine at the DC show. In fact, I think I was standing at the table where I bought it when I met you.

[DrCodfish]

I love that pen, Soot! It is gorgeous. Now, here is what arrived for <me> yesterday -- in the company of its modern cousin and also my 100NNs...(and there is something non-Pelikan on its way from Herr Christof, too...how <am> I going to pay the rent next month?)

 

This 101 Tortoise came from Tom Westerich, who is <very> charming and nice to deal with; the modern red tortoise came from the ever-gracious Rick Propas and I await an Osmia from himself -- Christof, who is also absolutely wonderful to deal with! Anyone who fancies a 100 -- I know he has a lovely one for sale, right now.

 

Oh my. That tortoise of yours has me drooling. Seeing yours and the 400nn from Soot just reinforces my notion that I should continue to sock away my lunch money until I have enough to bring one of these home. Seeing yours along side the new era 101n Red Tortoise only reinforces my notion that the originals are what I really want.

[Christopher Godfrey]

I know just what you mean about vintage and modern reiterations of them -- I really fell same way; but don't worry about lunch money -- remember that Joshua said, earlier, that we don't <need> clothes or food!* He should know ;^)

 

Mind you, I still love my modern red tortoise! It isn't going anywhere.

 

PS: * Apologies: he wrote this in another thread; but you've probably seen it...

Edited January 10, 2016 by Christopher Godfrey

[revdem]

A pair of 140's with B and BB nibs

[Ajax22]

Got a wonderful 120 Merz & Krell 120 for Christmas with EF nib. I think Grandma overpaid for it but oh well. I'm also awaiting my m400 White Tortoise from Massdrop and I can't stop salivating over the m201 Bayou. Can't believe I missed out on that beauty.

[bbycrts]

Uh oh. New thread...does that mean I need to acquire a new Pelikan?

[Christopher Godfrey]

<New thread...does that mean I need to acquire a new Pelikan?>

 

Silly question: of <course> you do!

[j1020]

Bexley Owners Club 2016 LE 12/40 Orange Ripple with a .9 Cursive Italic nib done beautifully by Linda Hamilton at Indy-Pen-Dance in Indiana.

 

Learning to use this nib has been an effort, but the results are well worth it.