Vintage Pens With Their Nibs, And A Brief Writing Sample

[cunim]

The red queen on seeing today's politics.  Waterman's 7 pink.  The script is atrocious.  Haven't held a pen in a long time.

 

[inkstainedruth]

But the pen itself is GORGEOUS!  

And I don't think your writing is at ALL "atrocious", BTW -- I don't know how to do that sort of handwriting at all, so even semi-flex nibs are kind of overkill for me for the most part.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[cunim]

On 3/17/2024 at 1:23 PM, inkstainedruth said:

But the pen itself is GORGEOUS!  

And I don't think your writing is at ALL "atrocious", BTW -- I don't know how to do that sort of handwriting at all, so even semi-flex nibs are kind of overkill for me for the most part.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Thanks, Ruth.  The sad thing is when you become skilled enough at calligraphy to realise just how bad you have become.

 

I agree that the #7 pen is lovely, but various samples of the pink nib differ in flex and bounceback.  This one is pretty good but, as I mentioned, I have less glamorous nibs that I prefer for writing.  The 94 here may well be my bestie - next to the Zebra G of course.

 

[Kirmo]

Simple handwriting , classic sepia ink and nice old pen

 

 

 

 

Pen: HALLMARK lever-filler by The United Jewelers Inc. (1920's circa)

Ink: homemade Iron-gall (made by a friend of mine)

Translation: Of sleep, every evening's sinister adventure, it may 
be observed that men go daily to their beds with an 
audacity which would be beyond comprehension 
did we not know that it is the result of their ignorance 
of danger.  Intimate journals - C.Baudelaire