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I'm waiting on a TWSBI Eco in clear, fine nib. It's going to be filled with Diamine Matador and used for grading papers (I'm a teacher's aide for two different instructors at a career and technical high school, and the wife of a science teacher, so I do lots of grading).

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...a terrific run of Parker 51 Aerometrics:

 

- Gold filled cap black 51 Aerometric for 35€ inc. S&H, going by the pics it is in great shape... M or F nib, not entirely sure but for the price I do not care that much.

 

- Greenish grey (?) Parker 51 with a SS cap... for 100€ via ebay (inc. S&H). Nothing unusual about it, great shape etc. That is what I thought until I took a closer look at the ni...iiiiib? Now that is a N I B, it looks a lot wider than the stubby B that I already have in my possession. Needless to say, I hit the "Buy Now" button pretty fast after I noticed that. :P

 

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-fcAAOSw9IpXyc4V/s-l1600.jpg

 

- And the last one, an absolutely mint lustraloy cap black 51 with the box for 63€ or so (S&H included), it still has the markings on the barrel:

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cimmerian Near Mint

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I'm waiting for a Pilot Metropolitan White Tiger (I'm kinda collecting the animal prints).

Who knows what ink lurks in the hearts of pen? The Shadow knows!

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Oh, almost forgot, also won a pre-war Pelikan 100N with a BB nib (or something along those lines). The barrel has a crack and all the trims are corroded but I can salvage the nib and other bits for parts. Maybe the grey binde too...

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...a terrific run of Parker 51 Aerometrics:

 

- Gold filled cap black 51 Aerometric for 35€ inc. S&H, going by the pics it is in great shape... M or F nib, not entirely sure but for the price I do not care that much.

 

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- And the last one, an absolutely mint lustraloy cap black 51 with the box for 63€ or so (S&H included), it still has the markings on the barrel:

 

 

Congratulations!

But... Where on earth do you get those deals? Those and some that I've seen on Pelikans 100s!! :)

Enjoy your pens.

 

I'm waiting for a second Pilot VP, this one red, and two of the new Pelikans M400 Brown Tortoise, one IB and one F (the F is for my wife).

And I guess I'm still waiting for a Nakaya Portable Cigar Heki-Tamenuri that I bought 4 months ago ... but still no word on this one :(.

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Congratulations!

But... Where on earth do you get those deals? Those and some that I've seen on Pelikans 100s!! :)

Enjoy your pens.

 

I'm waiting for a second Pilot VP, this one red, and two of the new Pelikans M400 Brown Tortoise, one IB and one F (the F is for my wife).

And I guess I'm still waiting for a Nakaya Portable Cigar Heki-Tamenuri that I bought 4 months ago ... but still no word on this one :(.

 

Thanks! A combo of using the right search keywords and scouring both ebay and national/regional auction sites pretty much religiously (several times a day). I also set a limit to price and bid up to that at the last possible moment. When an item is something that I really want it also means bidding a lot higher (like the mint 51, I actually set the reserve a lot higher than that). That of course inevitably leads to many misses due being outbid.

 

Then again when you get the item you bid for for a price that you can live with you can chalk that up as a win. This strategy allows for room for maneuver, of course you most often have to clean and restore the item (like with the 100N change the piston seals and other faulty/broken parts to working ones, do a surface polish etc.) but that is part of the fun. You do also get the occasional lemon but as it is with vintage and semi-vintage pens, that can happen with items bought for full asked price also. Also, a bit of social contact with the seller helps, for example in cases where the add states that they will only ship regionally instead of internationally.

 

Regional sites (like local auction/digital flea market/2nd hand retail sites) where people sell of their small wares etc. are great places to find stuff. For example, I just bought a used vintage and highly collectable 13" USA made Rawlings Heart of the Hide baseball glove in great condition (just some minor scratches on the outside, no scuffs, leather and all the prints intact and in great shape, the glove around 90-95% broken in > great user!) for less than half of what people ask for such in the states (shipping included) from this one european site, actually the same one where I got the first 51 mentioned in my post.

 

How did I find that place? Google. I am just going to tell you to look for the things you want with google and scour the results for leads, seeing where they end up and having a look if there actually are pots of gold at the end of those rainbows. ;)

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Thanks! A combo of using the right search keywords and scouring both ebay and national/regional auction sites pretty much religiously (several times a day)...

Oh, I see. It is a case of getting the rewards out of hard work and persistence. Thanks for the information.

 

I suppose I'll have to establish a good workflow for the online auctions and work on better searches. So far I didn't have much luck online (although I did get one relatively rare pen, that I had been searching for a while, for a fair price).

 

Where I live I also never had much luck in antiques. In fact, The owner of the only place that has a handful of pens thinks that any FP is worth a fortune (not surprisingly he still has the same pens he had 2 years ago, when I started looking). However, whenever I travel I stop in antiques and have had some good luck (recently I got a Parker vacumatic debutante in excellent conditions for less than $4, my Sumgai moment). And I agree, working on the pens is part of the fun.

 

By the way, your collection of Pelikans is simply stunning!

 

Cheers!

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S T Dupont Montparnasse, black. The only pen remaining on the water, last in my present watch list. It will be a companion to the other Montparnasse (gold) for which role I rejected bidding on a silver.

 

As I look across the two main streams of collection, to which the Duponts and a couple of others are adjuncts, I find myself thinking more about selling than buying. Time for my first clean-up. I already know a couple of pens I have no inclination to ink again compared with others, and there are a couple more which are simply superfluous without any other judgements.

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Just heard that my Ranga Bamboo demo has been shipped, so I am waiting for an excellently wrapped parcel to arrive some time in the next few weeks. It's always enjoyable cutting into the cloth wrapping around the cardboard box around the pen box... I should really invite some FP loving friends to play 'pass the parcel' with them!

Too many pens, too little time!

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How about when you get a pen in the mail you don't remember ordering?

 

I went back and found that, yes indeed, I did order this one from Amazon - but I don't remember doing so. :blush:

Tom

Waterman Ideal - blue ink; Esterbrook 2048 - brown ink; Waterman Carene - black ink

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How about when you get a pen in the mail you don't remember ordering?

 

I went back and found that, yes indeed, I did order this one from Amazon - but I don't remember doing so. :blush:

 

Nice one. :thumbup:

 

Can't say that I've ever done that...and what was the forgetable pen? :)

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A second Sheaffer Touchdown Admiral Feathertouch, this one in Burgundy. I hope it's in working condition as I haven't sent the Evergreen one in for restoration yet.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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I'm waiting on a large Sheaffer Valiant vac fill in carmine celluloid, with a fine nib:

 

http://i.imgur.com/1yWN9WG.jpg

 

(image courtesy of the seller)

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I'm waiting on a large Sheaffer Valiant vac fill in carmine celluloid, with a fine nib:

 

http://i.imgur.com/1yWN9WG.jpg

 

(image courtesy of the seller)

 

A great pen from a worthy source :) Love the Valiant (mine is Golden Brown).

Practice, patience, perseverance

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It's a beauty, though eBay means it goes beyond my price boundaries. Still, this is on the way (image from the site used for illustration only):

 

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I don't know exactly what it is other than it's a Balance of some sort. Has a boring old #3 nib too, none of the fancy conical nibs ever come this way.

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