What Pen Are You Waiting For In The Mail 2018

[Polanova]

I`m expecting one of my grail pens: A 90 years old red Conklin Endura

[da vinci]

A MB Shakespere to finally make my MB writers edition complete. Looking forward to the release of the Homer...

[Noihvo]

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Noihvo, congratulations on your win! Do tell us what model you get when it arrives!

[mallymal1]

A Platinum #3776 with the 'Koi' finish, and a broad nib.

 

[Noihvo]

Noihvo, congratulations on your win! Do tell us what model you get when it arrives!

 

[praxim]

An Omas of some sort; vintage, anyway.

[Shannon]

A black MB 144 and a Bordeaux MB 144 & BP set.

[mallymal1]

A Parker 45 Insignia.

 

[Heldin]

A Lamy 99 and a Lamy Persona

[JMTB]

Montblanc Heritage 1912 and an Aurora Optima flex in blue.

[sub_bluesy]

I visited Bittner’s in Carmel this weekend. Ended up putting in for an Armando Simoni Club Arco Verde in gold trim with their Magic flex nib. I tried the nib on a brown Arco ASC pen in stock and it was dead smooth! This is the last of the Omas Arco Verde material. It would have been fantastic to get it in a faceted pen but the rarity of an Omas in Arco Verde these days has driven prices through the roof. This ASC pen should be very special though especially with a #8 flex nib. I’m expecting delivery in June. Can’t wait!

[Misfit]

A Wancai mini pen in mint swirl that comes with a 1.1 stub nib. It looks so darn cute.

[Steveg58]

A couple of days ago I spotted one of these: https://www.wancherpen.com/products/oshita-maki-e-sakura-senmen-spring-flying-fan in the new arrivals section of an Australian online stationary store. Just as well I ordered it straight away cause they're sold out now.

[Shannon]

A black MB 144 and a Bordeaux MB 144 & BP set.

 

 

Grr... got my "like new" 144 and it's a disaster! OK -- dried ink, I can deal with that. But in the course of cleaning it, I found that the end of the pen is broken in several places and the tines of the nib are horribly misaligned.

[praxim]

I am waiting on a Tabo CO which should turn up in a few weeks. I am mainly curious about it, and happily for curiosity, the price was low. Tabo went out of business during 1948, about a year after Aurora brought out their famous 88. From pictures, the Tabo CO looks like they went to Aurora and asked for some spare 88s with the ends flattened so they could write Tabo on there. I will say something more after it arrives and I can find out how well or whether it operates.

[sansenri]

a supposedly new old stock Parker 75 Cisele (I hope mine is "more new" than "like new"...)

but I just had to have this one

 

 

[mallymal1]

A Himalaya, and a Triveni, from FPR.

 

[southpaw]

Penbbs 309 in dark marbled purple, a Penbbs 349 in translucent teal, and a vintage urushi Japanese eyedropper.

[Tseg]

My first vintage pen... MB 24 on the way.