Adding To The Flock

June 18

@PAKMAN -- That sure is a gorgeous pen! Don't suppose that they'll bring it out in a few years in a smaller size.... Although one can always hope -- they DID bring out the M405 Stresemann a couple of years after releasing the M805 size -- and I actually could AFFORD one....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

June 18

Adding an old style M800 with red stripes. Transplanted an italic broad tuned to cursive italic by Mike Masuyama.

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June 18

Beautiful M800 @roshpens!

June 18

1 minute ago, RedPie said:

Beautiful M800 @roshpens!

Thank you @RedPie! It was time to add red.

June 18

18 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

Finally added a new bird to my flock and it's a beauty! The new M-1000 Renaissance Brown fine 18k nib.

Congratulation, how does it write?

Alfredo

June 18

2 hours ago, roshpens said:

Adding an old style M800 with red stripes. Transplanted an italic broad tuned to cursive italic by Mike Masuyama.

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Red is still a color I am missing among my Mx00 pens. One day …

June 18

51 minutes ago, alfredop said:

Red is still a color I am missing among my Mx00 pens. One day …

@alfredopI did not want it either. Actually it is pretty cool!

June 19

On 6/17/2024 at 7:52 PM, PAKMAN said:

Finally added a new bird to my flock and it's a beauty! The new M-1000 Renaissance Brown fine 18k nib.

Really is a stunning pen. Assume the writing experience is on par with the looks. Congratulations.

June 19

On 6/18/2024 at 2:52 AM, PAKMAN said:

Finally added a new bird to my flock and it's a beauty! The new M-1000 Renaissance Brown fine 18k nib.

Congratulations! The way the marbling reflects light is utterly stunning. I love the warm tones of the brown and gold.

My pen was shipped this morning from Appelboom. I ordered a fine cursive italic!

June 20

Wall Street limited edition Pelikan M800
Ink:Lake of fire by Robert Oster
Paper: Tomoe River #7

June 24

On 6/20/2024 at 6:33 PM, roshpens said:

Wall Street limited edition Pelikan M800
Ink:Lake of fire by Robert Oster
Paper: Tomoe River #7

Congratulations, it's a beauty.

June 24

4 hours ago, I am in to watches said:

Congratulations, it's a beauty.

@I am in to watchesThank you !

June 25

@I am in to watches A beautiful pen and ink combination. Congrats...

June 25

@RedPie, I think you meant @roshpens?

June 27

On 6/25/2024 at 8:40 AM, RedPie said:

@I am in to watches A beautiful pen and ink combination. Congrats...

@RedPieThank you !

June 27

On 6/17/2024 at 5:16 PM, stoen said:

It’s a very beautiful pen, although not as “extremely rare” as described. These high quality model pens have been mass produced for 6 years and quite a few of them have survived 70+ years in good condition. Export models were not only made for the Italian market.

The really rare among them are those of the first three month production series with friction-fit nib units. I’ve only had one in my hands.

Highly appreciated are also the first two or three years production pens with script nibs and Pelikan Günther Wagner designation on the barrel (not on the cap ring), which your model seems to be. Congrats!

Thanks, the pen arrived and it seems to be in reasonably good shape, if not "probably never used". Nib is marked HM. I recently bought MV Moonstone which I only tried with a dip pen to get a feel for the color; I may try it in this.

June 27

Not sure if I mentioned here that I got an M600 Vibrant Orange. A little disappointed with it, though, it's pretty enough but has two bright sparkly strips separated by two duller ones; fortunately the cap and barrel line up fairly well.

The other arrival is an M600 Gaudi Cambon and it is absolutely spectacular; more than makes up for any recent disappointments. Ended up with an F as seller here in the States. Probably going to ink it with the MB Klimpt Blue that arrived a few days prior.

June 27

1 hour ago, chromantic said:

The other arrival is an M600 Gaudi Cambon and it is absolutely spectacular;

The pen you are talking about is the M600 Glauko Cambon.

There is an M800 Spirit of Gaudi, but that´s a different pen.

They are both rather spectacular.

June 27

Today arrived my latest (and rather impulsive) purchase:

The green striped Pelikan 400 with green cap, section and piston knob. I have heard this pen being dubbed the Sea Green. It has a friction fit nib and thus has to be a very early specimen.

As a little extra it comes with a box, a vintage BBB nib (in addition to the original M nib) and a second corpus (binde with section, also friction fit) from a salesman version of this pen, sporting the inscription "UNVERKÄUFLICH" (= unsaleable) on the binde and a tiny splint in the section (there is only a dot visible) holding the nib unit. These salesman versions were designed to be able to show the pen to pen shop owners. How it can be filled and emptied, if you dipped it in some ink also how it writes. BUT: if you filled it and tried to write, all you got was an inky mess. This made sure those pens wouldn´t be sold underhand.

As for the pictures, the green of the cap, section and piston knob is extremely hard to catch. But I managed to get a shot of the cap beside the cap of a black M800, and that picture makes the difference in colour really clear.