Adding To The Flock

[inkstainedruth]

On 12/4/2023 at 2:06 PM, carola said:

Rose Quartz... I have a bottle of that ink standing on my desk and I would really like to get rid of it. I got it at the Pelikan Hub and I don´t have the slightest idea what to do with it as I really, really don´t like pink.

I expected to hate it too, but coming out of the B nib on the M405 Stresemann, it's dark enough to be legible.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DilettanteG]

I seem to be making up for lost time, or the sale of Pelikan has got me spooked and I’m panic buying. My M200 Golden Beryl has’t even arrived yet and I’ve already ordered a broad nibbed m205 moonstone from the same seller on eBay. I may add an m205 star ruby as well. The defective cap on my m200 has come unglued again so another red demo would be nice in the rotation while I fix it.

[stoen]

Here’s a pre-war (possibly 1939) portuguese 100N, aka Emegê:

🙂

 

[Misfit]

@DilettanteG I got my Moonstone pen with a B nib too. It’s such a smooth writing nib. 

[DilettanteG]

@Misfit Twin pens separated at birth.😆 

 

I’m hoping the sparkly plastic will be as nice in person as it looks online. I really enjoy the broad nibs I bought on the Rose Quartz and Apatite over the Black Friday sales.  I might  pick up a spare factory steel IB as well for variety. I rather overdid it on the M20X plain broad nibs with four new ones just in the last month. But they’re so pretty and the price of this little pens make me okay with the risk of ink staining this little demos.

 

Not so much with the new M800 green demo. It’s like absorbing a small, acceptable loss instead of a capital one.

 

 

[stoen]

1 hour ago, DilettanteG said:

Twin pens separated at birth.😆 

Here are my twin pens, reunioned after who knows how many decades of having lived separate lives. The lower one is a new addition. I’m so happy they found each other, so I’m posting here to share it with you:

 

As for the writing characteristics, both are extremely confortable to write with. The upper pen has a special flex oblique nib (mentioned in Pelikan Collectibles), while the lower one has a flex stub medium.

 

 

[DilettanteG]

@stoen long lost siblings reunited! All you need is a romantic interest and a case of mistaken identity and you’ve got a Shakespearian comedy. Was one of them lost at sea? 😆

 

Gorgeous pens, especially the nibs. I do love me some line variation!

[Christopher Godfrey]

<@stoen long lost siblings reunited!>

 

Perhaps now there will be some breeding taking place and we can expect more happy news from stoen in a few months' time?  Oh, wait: might that not constitute a case of incest?  Forget I spoke...(Also I know not what the gestation period of a pelikan is?)  😉

 

Nice pens, BTW, stoen!!

[stoen]

12 hours ago, Christopher Godfrey said:

Perhaps now there will be some breeding taking place and we can expect more happy news from stoen in a few months' time?

Thanks for taking a look at the funny side of this hobby. Fortunately or not, classical fountain pens posess neither artificial intelligence nor machine learning skills, so they could eventually replicate, improve upon themselves or whatsoever.

🙂

Finding them somewhere “in the wild” and restoring them to full form and function is often such a tedious job that it isn’t worth leaving them in a display. They’re meant to write.

🙂

Thanks for some really nice words, @DilettanteG & @Christopher Godfrey.

[Ceilidh]

15 hours ago, Christopher Godfrey said:

 

Perhaps now there will be some breeding taking place and we can expect more happy news from stoen in a few months' time?  Oh, wait: might that not constitute a case of incest?  Forget I spoke...(Also I know not what the gestation period of a pelikan is?)  😉

 

 

(Chuckle) 

[Ceilidh]

12 hours ago, stoen said:

Finding them somewhere “in the wild” and restoring them to full form and function is often such a tedious job that it isn’t worth leaving them in a display. They’re meant to write.

Indeed - well said. And you do have such a wonderful collection of your restoration efforts.

[DilettanteG]

Twincest! Oh no! Please, I'm still traumatized by Luke Skywalker kissing his sister.

[DilettanteG]

My M200 Golden Beryl set just came in the mail. I think this is the first time I've gotten the pen and ink of the year in its presentation package. Very pretty indeed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A very handsome set. A little concerned that so much of the sparkle seems to be stuck in the feed:

 

 

 

 

And here's how it looks on some very junky paper (In the Oberon journal, pictured as background above.)

 

 

 

It's a very pretty pen and ink with lovely shading. Nice job Pelikan!

[Ceilidh]

29 minutes ago, DilettanteG said:

Twincest! Oh no! Please, I'm still traumatized by Luke Skywalker kissing his sister.

From chuckle to LOL!

 

(BTW, nice to see you back, Dilettante G.)

[DilettanteG]

@Ceilodh Thanks, it's nice to be back. Not so nice for my wallet as I catch up on all these cool special editions. I love you guys, but you're a terrible influence. 😆

[Ceilidh]

16 minutes ago, DilettanteG said:

I love you guys, but you're a terrible influence. 

I know what you mean. I remember when you were contemplating whether or not to pursue the entire City series. A bit ago, I picked up a Berlin with a B nib. Oh, my! (That's when I realized we hadn't heard from you in a while.)

 

I'm normally not big on yellowish inks, but that Golden Beryl looks really gorgeous. 

 

The problem with stoen's posts is that it keeps me drooling for the beautiful vintage ones as well!!!

[DilettanteG]

@Ceilidh what an excellent memory you have. I did end up collecting the whole series. So, I know first hand how gorgeous the Berlin is. Congrats.

 

Of course, I thought I’d buy those grail pens and finally be done. That did last over 3 1/2 years.

[stoen]

Here’s one of the pens in some matching autumn colors environment:

[DilettanteG]

My M205 Moonstone with a broad nib arrived a day early.Yay! Here it is filled with its eponymous ink:

[inkstainedruth]

On 12/11/2023 at 7:19 PM, Ceilidh said:

I know what you mean. I remember when you were contemplating whether or not to pursue the entire City series. A bit ago, I picked up a Berlin with a B nib. Oh, my! (That's when I realized we hadn't heard from you in a while.)

Fortunately for me, I'm not one of those "Pokemon -- gotta get 'em all" types.  There ARE a couple of the Pelikan Cities series I lust after, but only a couple.  And of course every time I see one of the ones I DO want (Piccadilly Circus and maybe also Athens), I drool over them and then look at the price tag and then go, "Nope nope nope...." and walk away....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth