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Swan Minor 205/59 Italian Marble M-B stub with soft maybe BBBB+ flex.

 

And my Jackdaw is still flying to me on its fantastic adventure!

 

Still waiting with baited breath... The Swan has just surfaced on Japan Post's tracking site after disappearing for ten days, so I can breathe a sigh of relief there...!

 

The Jackdaw will be hand delivered from a friend maybe this Friday, after it has travelled through his friends and martial arts teachers and students and generally passed halfway round the world!

 

And in the meantime I've received six Osmiroids (I'm selling off my black ones and buying in some colourful numbers!), and I've just snagged a cheap impulse buy Conway Stewart Scribe 366 (another tick off my wishlist!), so I'm officially waiting for that now too!

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Shannon Extremely Rare

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Blue Waterman L'Etalon FP & RB.

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Actually it's a nib, a Kaweco 14c M, stubbed by Pendleton Brown. Nib unit is attached to a basic black aluminium Lilliput. Should be here any day :).

Pen arrived but,... hit again by the folks at the Canadian border. Package not opened, but taxed for the insured CAD value of the goods. All declarations on the US side were done correctly.

Close to 50.00 CAD to get it out of hawk at the Post Office. :gaah:

I actually owned (& paid tax on) the pen before Pendleton got to work on it. :(

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*Sailor 1911S, Black/gold, 14k. 0.8 mm. stub(JM) *1911S blue "Colours", 14k. H-B "M" BLS (PB)

*2 Sailor 1911S Burgundy/gold: 14k. 0.6 mm. "round-nosed" CI (MM) & 14k. 1.1 mm. CI (JM)

*Sailor Pro-Gear Slim Spec. Ed. "Fire",14k. (factory) "H-B"

*Kaweco SPECIAL FP: 14k. "B",-0.6 mm BLS & 14k."M" 0.4 mm. BLS (PB)

*Kaweco Stainless Steel Lilliput, 14k. "M" -0.7 mm.BLS, (PB)

 

 

 

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Pelikan M620 Piazza Navona from the City Series.

Rationalizing pen and ink purchases since 1967.

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Everyone in my non-FPN life thinks I'm in need of psychological counseling for a pen addiction, so I don't dare tell them that I just ordered the following for myself for Christmas, but it would be nice if someone could be excited with me, so...

  • Platinum Century 3776 with soft fine nib (Chartres blue with gold trim)
  • Pilot Stargazer with fine nib (white)
  • Pilot Vanishing Point with fine nib (my second) (matte blue with black trim and nib)
  • ink to go with, of course :rolleyes:

:D

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Pen arrived but,... hit again by the folks at the Canadian border. Package not opened, but taxed for the insured CAD value of the goods. All declarations on the US side were done correctly.

Close to 50.00 CAD to get it out of hawk at the Post Office. :gaah:

I actually owned (& paid tax on) the pen before Pendleton got to work on it. :(

 

That's a bummer, tinta! :(

 

Pelikan M620 Piazza Navona from the City Series.

 

Pretty - I didn't know Pelikan made finishes like that - I've only ever seen the striped barrel ones, I think.

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Everyone in my non-FPN life thinks I'm in need of psychological counseling for a pen addiction, so I don't dare tell them that I just ordered the following for myself for Christmas, but it would be nice if someone could be excited with me, so...

  • Platinum Century 3776 with soft fine nib (Chartres blue with gold trim)
  • Pilot Stargazer with fine nib (white)
  • Pilot Vanishing Point with fine nib (my second) (matte blue with black trim and nib)
  • ink to go with, of course :rolleyes:

:D

 

Well, there are twelve days of Christmas and I only counted three pens. Seems very reasonable. Nice choices.

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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Just ordered a transparent purple PenBBs 308. :wub:

 

The Chinese pen section of the forum is a very dangerous place - I am also looking forward to the release of the new PenBBS pens while ordering this one!

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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Well, there are twelve days of Christmas and I only counted three pens. Seems very reasonable. Nice choices.

 

Exactly! I exercised restraint! :) Yeah, that's it. Those non-fountain-pen people have no idea just how much self control I have. (After all, I didn't order the new white Pelikan, and I didn't order a Lamy gold EF nib.)

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Just ordered a transparent purple PenBBs 308. :wub:

 

The Chinese pen section of the forum is a very dangerous place - I am also looking forward to the release of the new PenBBS pens while ordering this one!

 

Pretty.

 

Thank you for the warning. I'll avoid the Chinese section - I saw chrisrap52 on YouTube had a PenBBS review of a pen that looked kinda like a Franklin Christoph design - I recommend you avoid that - it's pretty too... ;)

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Pretty - I didn't know Pelikan made finishes like that - I've only ever seen the striped barrel ones, I think.

 

The City Series (designated M620) contains three favorite Pelikans of mine: the Grand Place, the Piazza Navona, and the Athens. These pens have M600-size nibs, but are 18K rather than 14K. I much prefer my M620 Grand Place to the M800 version. The Piazza Navona is particularly elegant, and the Athens reminds me of the color of the Mediterranean. I have Pelikans in all sizes, and I find these M620s to be the most comfortable to write with.

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The City Series (designated M620) contains three favorite Pelikans of mine: the Grand Place, the Piazza Navona, and the Athens. These pens have M600-size nibs, but are 18K rather than 14K. I much prefer my M620 Grand Place to the M800 version. The Piazza Navona is particularly elegant, and the Athens reminds me of the color of the Mediterranean. I have Pelikans in all sizes, and I find these M620s to be the most comfortable to write with.

 

:thumbup:

 

Maybe next year I'll get a Pelikan - haven't tried one, and already blew the budget this year. :)

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:thumbup:

 

Maybe next year I'll get a Pelikan - haven't tried one, and already blew the budget this year. :)

 

Strongly recommend that you consider a vintage Pelikan, such as a 400NN. These are quite plentiful, and relatively inexpensive compared to the cost of a new pen. The nibs are superb. Read in the Pelikan forum for details.

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Pelikan M205 in the grey/magenta marble.

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

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sub_bluesy

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Returned my second Montegrappa Fortuna Heartwood so waiting for a replacement. Also a Faber-Castell Loom in matte gunmetal as well as a Namisu Nova in titanium with a titanium medium nib. Really looking forward to that pen!

Someday the mountain might get em but the law never will.........

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Returned my second Montegrappa Fortuna Heartwood so waiting for a replacement. Also a Faber-Castell Loom in matte gunmetal as well as a Namisu Nova in titanium with a titanium medium nib. Really looking forward to that pen!

why returned Montegrappa Heartwood again

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MG66

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I loved my new Monteverde Regatta Sport so much I ordered another one in all black. Will also be my first stub nib. Can't wait!

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I assume as much for other people

We’ve listened more to life’s end gong

Than the sound of life’s sweet bells

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LizEF Museum Piece

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Strongly recommend that you consider a vintage Pelikan, such as a 400NN. These are quite plentiful, and relatively inexpensive compared to the cost of a new pen. The nibs are superb. Read in the Pelikan forum for details.

 

Thanks! I'll go google that. :)

 

Pelikan M205 in the grey/magenta marble.

 

It turns out I like the feel of gold nibs (not the tipping, I know that's the same) but the bounce / spring / softness / give / whatever you call it as you write. So I've pretty much decided not to get any more steel nibbed pens (have plenty of those). (And the 200-level Pelikans are all steel nibs, right?)

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