What's Your Most Recent Addition To The Flock In 2017?

[jmccarty3]

My M800 Renaissance Brown with a fine nib arrived yesterday in good condition from La Couronne de Comte. Will clean it and fill with Edelstein Smoky Quartz later this week.

[cellardoor04]

My M800 Renaissance Brown with a fine nib arrived yesterday in good condition from La Couronne de Comte. Will clean it and fill with Edelstein Smoky Quartz later this week.

Congrats! That seems like a really nice pairing I am still waiting on mine from LCDC too.

[chromantic]

My M250 Levenger arrived today - what a beauty! I appears to be in excellent condition. There is a small defect, about 3/16 x 1/8 (covering about 2 stripes), in the binde just below the surface up next to the section on the left side; the buff-colored lower layer of the stripes are there but the upper tortoise layers are absent. It's not too bad and you don't see it at a casual glance.

 

One thing I didn't realize was that the non-tortoise parts are not black but a very dark brown, which makes perfect sense now I see it.

 

It took forever to flush dried black ink out of it, switching between plain water and water/ammonia mix, probably 45 minutes until the water ran clear. I still have the nib soaking but the first soak seems to have gotten most of it.

 

Overall, I quite pleased but will hold off final judgement until I can try it with ink. I'm thinking possibly Macassar ...

 

The M151 should be here any day now.

[FPFan]

What a wonderful "find". I'm a little envious! I've always loved the look of the brown accents over the black. Lucky, Lucky, Lucky!

 

The Diamine Macassar ink looks like a good match for that pen.

[CrossFoot]

Vintage, early 400 brown tortoise with script M nib. Hopefully it is 100% legit (eBay Germany auction). On order is a new M600 red stripe from across the pond.

 

 

 

 

[celtic101]

Received a new M805 with a EF nib from Cult Pens UK today. Was surprised at the "low" price they sell them for. Not much more than a used one from eBay.

So impressed with the pen that i want the M1000 now!!

[chromantic]

What a wonderful "find". I'm a little envious! I've always loved the look of the brown accents over the black. Lucky, Lucky, Lucky!

 

The Diamine Macassar ink looks like a good match for that pen.

 

Thanks, it is a lovely pen! I did ink it with the Macassar and was pleased, nay, surprised to see the gold F nib is, indeed, an F, bordering on EF, comparable to my Sheaffer Cadet F1. (If only my M300 EF was this fine!) Unfortunately, the tines are ever so slightly out of adjustment, enough to make writing a scratchy affair. Don't trust myself to adjust it, so I'll have to send it out.

[chromantic]

And, in other news ...

 

The green/black M151 arrived today! Fancy presentation box with a bottle of 4001 Royal Blue. Wasn't sure I'd like the green but it's not bad, it's a handsome little pen. Have to change out the M, of course. Overall, quite pleased.

[Oobly]

M200 Cognac (Medium nib) which I snagged on auction. Got it filled with Apache Sunset. At some point I'll give it a vintage nib.

[Christopher Godfrey]

Alright, you uninterested lot (mob?): a page back I asked if anyone knew the connection between this recent addition to my flock (no, bad metaphor, this time) and whether anyone remembered a relevant advertisement of a month or two ago...no one rose to the bait. So here is a picture (worth a thousand words? Perhaps...let's see...) and I ask again: what is the connection and why am I posting this "foreigner" here, among our beloved avians?

[zaddick]

Regina had the pens made out now thr same lapis colored celluloid as the Pelikan OOTT pen. I think she still has at least one for sale on her auction site.

[Christopher Godfrey]

Bravo, Zaddick: I believe that, in fact, she bought out their entire remaining stock of that celluloid -- hence the very small run of this pen, called "The Vintage" (<and> it has a fairly flexible nib -- by today's standards! In no way does the nib, though, compare with our vintage Pelikans)

 

BTW: look closely and you will spy another (recent acquisition) interloper among my German waterbirds!

Edited June 22, 2017 by Christopher Godfrey

[chromantic]

The bright green tortoise with matching piston cap?

[Christopher Godfrey]

No, Chromantic, it's an Italian intruder (looks rather Sheaffer-ish), nestled among the birds: name begins with an R-...try again?

[ca49reber]

My M400 Red Striped arrived yesterday to join my M800 & M600 Red Striped.

[BillH]

Haven't posted here in awhile... there's this new one, an M620 Stockholm, with the finest F nib in the flock, still very smooth.

 

[Lam1]

Nice catch, Bill! She is a beauty!

And they are getting harder and harder to find nowadays.

Congrats.

[alfredop]

No, Chromantic, it's an Italian intruder (looks rather Sheaffer-ish), nestled among the birds: name begins with an R-...try again?

 

Well probably the green pen is a Radius.

 

Alfredo

Edited June 24, 2017 by alfredop

[alfredop]

Haven't posted here in awhile... there's this new one, an M620 Stockholm, with the finest F nib in the flock, still very smooth.

 

Pelikan M620 Stockholm F.jpg

 

Beatiful

 

Alfredo

[BillH]

Thank you Lam1 and Alfredo . I'm afraid I'm behind on my sharing but will try over the next week or so to add another one or two.

 

Or maybe I'll take up golf again? It may be cheaper than pens...

Edited June 24, 2017 by BillH