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

[mana]

Very, very nice bird you have there Bill! I still haven't gotten around getting one of the earlier model 100N... keeping my focus on the later ones (ways to go there still when it comes to different kinds of bindes, engravings and whatnot).

[lbendezu]

This has been the year of Pelikans

My 800s so far. Yes, they DO multiply!!

 

[lbendezu]

And thanks to Rick Propas, just got this very nice vintage 400 . Has a wonderful nib with nice flex.

 

Edited August 7, 2017 by Bluejay1988

[BillH]

That is looking fantastic Bill! Congrats!

 

 

Thank you sir. I just showed the post to my wife

 

"ooooh... that's really pretty. I really like that one... wait... that's YOU!"

 

[BillH]

mana, and thank you sir!

 

Bluejay1988, very nice collection! And aren't the black stripers wonderful!

[lbendezu]

mana, and thank you sir!

 

Bluejay1988, very nice collection! And aren't the black stripers wonderful!

 

Thank you Bill! And yes indeed. It was a pleasant surprise when I saw the stripes. They're very classy I think.

[zchen]

new home nest for my pellies, full album here.

 

http://i.imgur.com/QlFqbtZ.jpg

Edited August 7, 2017 by zchen

[lbendezu]

Oh I like that!!!

[ian1964]

Me too!

[BillH]

[rchiodo]

And thanks to Rick Propas, just got this very nice vintage 400 . Has a wonderful nib with nice flex.

 

That is a real beauty! The nib looks a little stubby, should be fun. Rick is the best!

[pajaro]

M300 green stripe. I like a pen I get to fill more often.

[chromantic]

M300 green stripe. I like a pen I get to fill more often.

 

Grats on acquiring that beauty! I love mine.

[pajaro]

 

Grats on acquiring that beauty! I love mine.

Thanks. I have just ordered an extra fine nib for my M300 to replace the medium. I thought about having the medium ground to EF, but the medium is nice enough to keep. The M300 fits in my hand. The brass piston mechanism is exquisite.

[biancitwo]

Just received a dark blue M605, with an EF nib. I was anxious about the EF nib. But, I'd heard so often that western nibs are a size or two larger than Japanese nibs, so I hoped to have no trouble with it. Well, it isn't a size or two larger. It is the same size as my unusable Sailer EF. I compared them through a loupe. I loaded it with Diamond Blood Orange, and lt wrote beautifully. If I had filled it with Asa Gao instead, it would write even better. I am very pleased with my purchase. It will be a good change of pace from my every day carry broad and medium italics.

[PAKMAN]

Thanks to Shawn Newton (Newton Pens) I have this lovely M1000 with a custom Blue Lizard Binde! Love it!

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

A prewar, 101n tortoise

 

Something that has been on my lust list for a very long time. Not a pristine example by any means (a pristine example I could not afford) but this one is a beauty to behold and I am very happy to have it in the flock.

 

P1030495 by Doctor Codfish, on Flickr

 

 

P1030494 by Doctor Codfish, on Flickr

 

What a beautiful pen!

I keep lusting after these. Then I look at the price tag on the ones I've seen at shows and it's like someone just shoved me head first into an ice cold shower.... Serious reality check time.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DrCodfish]

 

What a beautiful pen!

I keep lusting after these. Then I look at the price tag on the ones I've seen at shows and it's like someone just shoved me head first into an ice cold shower.... Serious reality check time.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Ruth:

This pen has been on my lust list for literally .... years. As some may have noticed, I haven't been posting many acquisitions in this thread over the last couple years, and this pen is part of the reason. I figured out that every 'lesser' pen, regardless the price, just puts this pen farther up the calendar in terms of landing one. (I was raised on a steady diet of 'delayed gratification' so as an adult and master of my own finances, that ethic went out the window). I do adhere to my iron clad rule of no CC debt though I have bought at least one expensive pen on time payments.

 

The pen you are looking at here is really pretty but it is no show horse, it has it's flaws, and because of those I was able to purchase it for about half of what a near mint example would require, and as I said, it took years to find one that was in that sweet spot between cost and acceptable condition.

 

I am completely happy with this pen, but I could be persuaded to get another in better condition, IF the price were right. These things are so beautiful that the pen box would only look better with more examples.

 

My advice if you are seriously interested in one of these:

1, Set your top price you would be willing to pay. Make it hurt because you already know you can't get one on the cheap.

2. Start saving.

3. Talk with vendors or classic Pelikan aficionados: Tell them what you are looking for, what sorts of flaws or defects you are willing to tolerate, and what you max price is.

4. Wait.... be prepare to wait a long time.

 

A good chance that eventually you and your pretty will be united.

[Lelouch]

 

Ruth:

This pen has been on my lust list for literally .... years. As some may have noticed, I haven't been posting many acquisitions in this thread over the last couple years, and this pen is part of the reason. I figured out that every 'lesser' pen, regardless the price, just puts this pen farther up the calendar in terms of landing one. (I was raised on a steady diet of 'delayed gratification' so as an adult and master of my own finances, that ethic went out the window). I do adhere to my iron clad rule of no CC debt though I have bought at least one expensive pen on time payments.

 

The pen you are looking at here is really pretty but it is no show horse, it has it's flaws, and because of those I was able to purchase it for about half of what a near mint example would require, and as I said, it took years to find one that was in that sweet spot between cost and acceptable condition.

 

I am completely happy with this pen, but I could be persuaded to get another in better condition, IF the price were right. These things are so beautiful that the pen box would only look better with more examples.

 

My advice if you are seriously interested in one of these:

1, Set your top price you would be willing to pay. Make it hurt because you already know you can't get one on the cheap.

2. Start saving.

3. Talk with vendors or classic Pelikan aficionados: Tell them what you are looking for, what sorts of flaws or defects you are willing to tolerate, and what you max price is.

4. Wait.... be prepare to wait a long time.

 

A good chance that eventually you and your pretty will be united.

Thank you for your advice, though not intended for me I appreciate your sharing. I also see it as better to start with the biggest price tag first so that the subsequent ones won't take so long.

[penmanila]

An M700 which I was lucky to score for $300 on a local auction site It came with a near-mint old-style M800 in green stripes for $250.

Edited August 15, 2017 by penmanila