What Fountain Pen Have You Lost?

[Estycollector]

When I was around ten I discovered my father's Parker mechanical pencil in his dresser drawer that had been given to him as a Bell South employee. I lost it in the church yard running out to turn off the sign. I grieved more over the trouble I was going to incur. A fellow Sunday School child was writing with it one day and when asked gave it back to me. I put it back where I found it. The plastic had been damaged from being run over with a car, but it was back and I could breathe again.

Edited January 1, 2020 by Estycollector

[bbs]

Somewhere in the house (I hope) are my Loclen Electa that look a while to be delivered from the Kickstarter project, a blue striped a Pelikan M415 and a Sailor Purple Cosmos. I’m hoping they are together somewhere that I just haven’t looked yet ..... and weren’t in something that my partner ‘cleared away’.

 

Good luck in finding your pens to everyone who’s lost one!

[Scrawler]

A Chinese diplomat removed my Parker 45 Flighter from my desk and never returned it in 1993 and I still miss it.

[WLSpec]

Kaweco Liliput

TWSBI Eco 1.1

Platinum Preppy

And probably a few more that I can't remember

[Krushna]

Have lost a few well-loved pens to the wastelands of time. These are the ones that still remain fresh in my memories...

 

Many Parker Vectors

A Faber Castell Ambition in Pearwood

A Kaweco Al-Sport with a BB nib

An ASA Nauka in black ebonite with a Schmidt nib

[Tom Kellie]

~ To date, I've never lost any fountain pen or ink.

Tom K.

[bbs]

Somewhere in the house (I hope) are my Loclen Electa that look a while to be delivered from the Kickstarter project, a blue striped a Pelikan M415 and a Sailor Purple Cosmos. I’m hoping they are together somewhere that I just haven’t looked yet ..... and weren’t in something that my partner ‘cleared away’.

 

Good luck in finding your pens to everyone who’s lost one!

Just as I hoped, putting it down here has led me to find them all - in a pen wrap I’d forgotten about.

 

Similar good luck to all others still seeking .....

[Tom Kellie]

Just as I hoped, putting it down here has led me to find them all - in a pen wrap I’d forgotten about.

 

Similar good luck to all others still seeking .....

 

~ bbs:

 

Wonderful!

When I relocated last year from north to south, during unpacking I found a full bottle of Iroshizuku Chiku-rin ink which I'd thought I'd lost.

I'm glad that your 2020 begins with good luck.

Tom K.

[bbs]

Thanks you so much for your kind words, Tom. Glad you had a reunion too!

[TrentinWA]

A Parker model I can't remember, but it was my first decent pen, which I used throughout college.

 

My backup Lamy Studio, which I'm hoping is somewhere either in my office or here at home, most likely the latter.

[ratscabies]

My first post!

 

I don't know if it counts as "lost", but I will go with it, since I just recently found my first fountain pen, a transparent blue bodied Sheaffer school pen with a medium nib. It was tucked away along with a pack of dried out blue Skrip cartridges.

 

I bought it in the mid 1970s, when my grade school classmates and I went through a fountain pen fad. It was short lived, as we were firmly of the ball point age, and with no direction on the use of fountain pens in fifth grade, the dang things were messy!

 

Anyway, in the course of swapping my home office and the guest room, I found the pen, and stumbled onto adding water to the dried cartridges, and that pen came right back to life! And since COVID has put my career as a touring musician on indefinite hold, fountain pens have become my latest obsession and stress valve. While the budget for fancy pens is non-existent at the moment, my exploration of cheap pens has captured me strongly, and the collection is on the verge of out of hand. But prowling eBay for pens can be much less expensive than the good old days of prowling for vintage guitars (much to my wife's relief).

[Rosendust]

I guess my most "missed, but that pen taught me a lesson" lost pen, It would have to be my Lamy Dark Lilac-what a perfect shade of purple that was. Alas, I realized that I didn't like the grip-so it wasn't that much of a loss-I now know what I like and not as worried about the rest.

[rkesey]

Only one, the first one I ever had, a cheap lovely demonstrator with a stub nib that a student of mine gave me decades ago. I still have notebooks I filled with it. I still hope to some day find it in some forgotten box...

[bayindirh]

An old Chinese pen with a stainless steel body and gold colored steel nib. It came with a squeeze converter. Wrote lovely.

Another Chinese pen with a red aluminum body and hooded nib. Which also wrote lovely and came with a squeeze converter.

 

Hope I'll find them. They were really lovely pens with a story.

It was decades ago.

[Manofadventure]

An absolutely bulletproof Gama Eyas, Indian ebonite eyedropper, lost alas, while backpacking the magical lands of South America.

 

A couple of Waterman Carene in a 2 pen leather etui.

 

A couple of Inoxcrom Elleste, one of which truly hurt as it had been gifted by a very dear friend and was my only pen for close to 10 years.

 

A Waterman Charleson ball point and a Waterman Charleston roller ball, although, it never felt bad when I lost them.

 

And there would me more, going way too far back, all of them generic cheap eyedroppers, growing up in small town India.

[twigletzone]

Not lost but it was nicked by some thieving toe rag at my school - transparent red Sheaffer No Nonsense. I loved that pen and it was as smooth as butter. I've replaced it about five times, including a couple of the caligraphy versions that have italic nibs, but it's just not the same somehow :(

[sgphototn]

Is it really lost if you didn't know it was lost?

 

Today I was cleaning out a desk drawer looking for an old sack of foreign coins pre-WW2, and found this. Still in the white slipcase, I thought I had merely stuck an old Waterman box in the drawer. Much to my surprise, I opened it up and this is what greeted me, a Waterman Expert 2.

 

I can almost remember buying this around 2000 or so, but for some reason never inked it up or used it. The converter was in place along with the paperwork, but showroom fresh.

 

I looked it over, wiped it down, and placed in back in the box and slipcase. 

 

Somebody will want this so I'm going to save it for trading.

 

Maybe I need to check other spots for missing loot that I didn't know was missing.

 

 

 

[TheRedBeard]

About 15 years ago, very early in the morning, I left a hotel in Zurich and went to the airport to fly back to London...

Approaching a check-in desk I put my hand into my jacket's pocket to pick up

my Parker (Matte Dark Green Rialto with Fine nib) bout found nothing...

And almost immediately I realised that I forgot to take my much-loved pen from a safe in the hotel's room...

 

I've never lost any of my pens after that though parted with a few by impulsively presenting them to some of my friends :)