Questions and Answers to the Lamy Picture Quiz

[bonnie-scott]

Looking forward to questions, comments and answers to the picture quiz 🙂

[inkstainedruth]

The what?  Is this on Lamy's website?  Some other website?  Or some other thread on here?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[bonnie-scott]

Just now, inkstainedruth said:

The what?  Is this on Lamy's website?  Some other website?  Or some other thread on here?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Sorry inkstand Ruth.  I've payed some pictures under Lamy Picture quiz (Posts 1-3_ I don't know if they took awhile to appear because the picture file sizes are large to allow people to zoom in 🙂

[inkstainedruth]

After posting I discovered the other threads.  Unfortunately, I then couldn't get back to this thread because I had looked at another one in between. 

I have it set up that newer posts show up first, and unless someone responds to a post immediately I don't necessarily see it right away, which gets especially problematic for game threads like "Guess the Movie" -- and with the new software the search button is even less useful than with the old software on the old servers....  (I was just reading the thread about Classifieds not working right which has been the case for several months now....)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[bonnie-scott]

No worries,

 

I used to think I was tech savvy, now I know my tech ability is much less than that of a 4 year old 😂  I've amended to other posts to say that there is a seprate one for comments.  I didn't think things through and should have made sure the pictures were small enough to fit on one posts.

 

But thank you for your post as it promoted me to amend the others to make things clearer.

[Lilla-My]

Beautiful display!

[bonnie-scott]

4 hours ago, Lilla-My said:

Beautiful display!

thank you, I was just so pleased to get the cabinet 🙂

[inkstainedruth]

Well I definitely spotted a French Blue Safari and a couple of the SE pens from a year or two back (Mango and Violet, plus what I think was a Dark Lilac.

I'm now curious about some of the other red-clip and black clip models as well, which I don't think I'd ever seen before (for some reason "normal" Safaris don't interest me, but the ones with the colored clips, which make the clips look less like paperclips, always catch my eye -- which is what really attracted me about the French Blue in particular almost more than the black clip and nib on the Dark Lilac, which of course is just stellar looking.

Ruth Morrisson aka instainedruth

[bonnie-scott]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Well I definitely spotted a French Blue Safari and a couple of the SE pens from a year or two back (Mango and Violet, plus what I think was a Dark Lilac.

I'm now curious about some of the other red-clip and black clip models as well, which I don't think I'd ever seen before (for some reason "normal" Safaris don't interest me, but the ones with the colored clips, which make the clips look less like paperclips, always catch my eye -- which is what really attracted me about the French Blue in particular almost more than the black clip and nib on the Dark Lilac, which of course is just stellar looking.

Ruth Morrisson aka instainedruth

The ones with Black Clips all have the matte/textured finish.  For some reason Lamy seems to prefer these with a Black clip,

So there are , Original Terracotta and Original Savvanah Green, Umbra (originally called S2), Grey, Petrol, All Black, Dark Lilac and Brown (only released as a character Pen in the Far East - Line Friends).

 

The coloured clips are:

White with metallic Red Clip (another released in Korea) the Aquamarine, Mango and Violot (the Candy Colours),  white with standard red clip (Japan), Red with Yellow Clip (China) French Blue and Flame Orange.

Sadly I still pine over a lack of the Blue with Yellow clip sold in limited numbers in  Swedish Store some years ago, and the whit with black clip and matte/textured finish which seems to exist but is rare and is thought may only have been an export model.  Perhaps an early example of some those I've listed which are only available in the far east.

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, bonnie-scott said:

Sadly I still pine over a lack of the Blue with Yellow clip sold in limited numbers in  Swedish Store some years ago, and the whit with black clip and matte/textured finish which seems to exist but is rare and is thought may only have been an export model.  Perhaps an early example of some those I've listed which are only available in the far east.

I saw one of those on eBay a few years ago -- apparently they were to commemorate some anniversary (250th?  I forget now...) of Sweden becoming a country.  Yeah, I wouldn't mind getting one of those, depending on the price.  I think that was the first pen that I was going "Yeah, I might actually want a Safari at some point...."  Then, after been given the Jinhao 599 (a knockoff of an al-Star) and realized that I could maybe get used to the triangular section after all, I was thinking "Okay, maybe go really silly and get a pink Safari...."  Only I didn't really like the color of the Pink ones I saw, and then the Dark Lilac was released and it was All Over™ .  

I blew hot and cold over the Vibrant Pink al-Star (saw one in the Lamy Soho store in NYC a few winters ago, where the one from the store window was sun-faded on one side!) but then picked that up when Vanness had them on clearance.  Also got the Violet SE because it was *just* enough different from the Dark Lilac (and had the matching color clip to the barrel and cap).  I kept balking on the NOS French Blue ones I was seeing on the Bay of Evil, going "They're asking HOW MUCH?  Are they kidding?  It's *just* a Safari!" but got lucky and spotted a used one for not that much more than the retail price of a new Safari).  

Got a Ruthenium LX for cheap from Lamy's old US distributor in a closeout (both it and the Vibrant Pink al-Star ended up being less expensive than a new Safari's retail price).  Sprung for the Azure al-Star last spring after waffling over the color (which is really dependent on the ambient light, and have decided I actually like the color better than that of the LX (go figure...).  But some of the colors I go "meh" over: was not remotely interested in Petrol, for instance, or the anniversary reboot of the original two colors).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jchch1950]

Congratulations for your Lamy pens collection. Lamy Safari  special editions can be of two different groups :those   yearly editions  that are offer for sale world wide and the ones that are issued for a country or a  pen store. They are Japan , Malasia ,China,Taiwan, etc. special editions. To collect all the special and anual  editions can be quite hard as some of them are only for sale in  a chain of shops, as it was the the case of the Taiwan pens. Also there is not a single source with the whole list of Lamy Safari pens ever produced that I know.

[Jan Mathijs Rijck]

Hey, you have a Lamy Lady! 
I didn't know it until the wife of a good friend asked me this spring if I could tell her what kind of fountain pen it was that she had received as a gift many years ago.

It was lying in her desk, not used for 10 years, clogged and dirty. I was able to clean it for her and get it writing again, filled it with Diamine Tyrean purple (because she wanted a purple ink) and she promised to use it regularly again.
I did a little research and then explained to her what a treasure she had. 

Beautiful pen, it's a pity that Lamy no longer produces it. Since then, I've always kept an eye out to see if I can buy one somewhere at a reasonable price. Here in Germany, it can happen that you find a pen in a stationery shop that hasn't been produced for years or decades. 3 years ago, I bought a Lamy 69 that hadn't been made since 1985.

 

Very nice display and very nice collection field! Congratulations!

[bonnie-scott]

8 hours ago, Jan Mathijs Rijck said:

Hey, you have a Lamy Lady!

Hi Jan,

 

I have just the one, but was lucky enough to get at a sensible price.  I also 'found' the correct case just listed as Lamy Case so also got that at a sensible price. 

 

So here are some more pictures with the pen and case together 🙂

 

As with all things Lamy I like the fact that this was something different, not too many fountain pens are available with a ceramic body.

 

[bonnie-scott]

On 8/31/2021 at 9:52 PM, jchch1950 said:

Also there is not a single source with the whole list of Lamy Safari pens ever produced that I know.

There are some good sources of information, particularly on the Safari and Al-Star and there are some really knowledgable people on here working on putting together their own databases of Lamy Pens.

 

So hopefully in time the information will come together for fans of Lamy 😀

[Jan Mathijs Rijck]

3 hours ago, bonnie-scott said:

Hi Jan,

 

I have just the one, but was lucky enough to get at a sensible price.  I also 'found' the correct case just listed as Lamy Case so also got that at a sensible price. 

 

So here are some more pictures with the pen and case together 🙂

 

As with all things Lamy I like the fact that this was something different, not too many fountain pens are available with a ceramic body.

 

 

Many thanks for the beautiful pictures!

 

You are really lucky! Did you know that the porcelain body was made by Rosenthal, the largest German porcelain manufacturer? 
Philip Rosenthal, the long-time CEO, coined the wonderful phrase: 
"If you think about costs too late, you ruin your company. If you think about costs too early, you kill creativity".