I got this pen today

[Penguincollector]

10 hours ago, Prof Drew said:

Enjoy the 2000! I ordered one too. The feel is something else.

  Thank you! I really like the warmth of the Makrolon, and how even the EF has a bit of a stubbish quality to it. 
 

@Misfit, now I want the blue Sailor converter, it would look really cool in my Clear Candy.

[dms525]

 

Leonardo Momento Zero Grande in Marmo Incrinato celluloid. More in the Leonardo Photography thread.

 

David

[DilettanteG]

11 minutes ago, dms525 said:

 

Leonardo Momento Zero Grande in Marmo Incrinato celluloid. More in the Leonardo Photography thread.

 

David

Wow, that's a nice looking pen.

[brindle]

Today I got two pens - a Diplomat Aero (green) and a TWSBI Eco (black). Also a bunch of ink samples. That should keep me busy for a while.

[sandy101]

Visconti Van Gogh - Souveneer de Mauve with a broad nib. It wrote straight out of the box, with a (bottle) fill of Visconti Black ink 

 

It's a Spring pen. The blossom is coming out, and it looks beautiful, but everything is wet & damp - winter's tenacious fingers still have us in its grasp. 

[Misfit]

11 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

I want the blue Sailor converter, it would look really cool in my Clear Candy.

I hope you get one. They had two green ones, yellow, red, pink, purple and orange. I ordered from Jet Pens. If the blue goes out of stock, it should come back fairly soon. It was out of stock when I first found the Sailor pen. 

[Penguincollector]

1 minute ago, Misfit said:

I hope you get one. They had two green ones, yellow, red, pink, purple and orange. I ordered from Jet Pens. If the blue goes out of stock, it should come back fairly soon. It was out of stock when I first found the Sailor pen. 

 
  I will put it on my list over there, It can help with free shipping next order.

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector hurray! I’m glad showing the pen helped.  When you get the converter, will you please post a photo of it in  the Clear Candy in the Demonstators Club?

[Prof Drew]

@Misfit hi. interesting comments. I tried a Franklin-Christoph specialty nib and was so amazed.

Have a good weekend.

[Prof Drew]

@Penguincollector, yes, I've felt that Makrolon. Looking forward,, especially as you say there is a stubbish feel. I will have to wait for my YahooJapan order to arrive in a warehouse there. Enjoy the weekend!

[PithyProlix]

On 3/9/2024 at 5:36 AM, sandy101 said:

Visconti Van Gogh - Souveneer de Mauve with a broad nib. It wrote straight out of the box, with a (bottle) fill of Visconti Black ink 

 

It's a Spring pen. The blossom is coming out, and it looks beautiful, but everything is wet & damp - winter's tenacious fingers still have us in its grasp. 

 

What is the ink please?

 

(The text is ... intriguing ... especially in juxtaposition with what you wrote about Spring.)

 

Interesting story found while searching around for an image of the painting that inspired this pen:

It doesn't refer to the color mauve but to Van Gogh's cousin by marriage, Anton Mauve, who was also one of Van Gogh's painting teachers. Upon learning the news of his death, Van Gogh dedicated the painting to Mauve on the same day he finished it.

 

[source: Pink peach trees ('Souvenir de Mauve') – Kröller-Müller Museum (krollermuller.nl)]

 

[Penguincollector]

11 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector hurray! I’m glad showing the pen helped.  When you get the converter, will you please post a photo of it in  the Clear Candy in the Demonstators Club?

  Of course! I need to look and see what I have bought recently and post them in the various color club threads. 

[Penguincollector]

6 hours ago, Prof Drew said:

@Penguincollector, yes, I've felt that Makrolon. Looking forward,, especially as you say there is a stubbish feel. I will have to wait for my YahooJapan order to arrive in a warehouse there. Enjoy the weekend!

  Ah, the warehouse dance- hope you get your things soon!  Have an excellent weekend!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Didn't receive it, will do that on Tuesday when I pick it up, and a couple Meissen figures that my wife had wanted for ages.

 

A 224 Mount Blanc...the first medium-small MB pen I have seen.

 

In the '50-60's in Germany medium-small was very popular, 760 Geha, 140 Pelikan, Kaweco Dia, and I have a couple medium-small Osmia fountain pens.

The semi-flex is OK....the picture makes it look broken.

 

The price of pens appears has taken an up turn.

It and the following lot went for much more than I expected. Luckily I had two of the three Pelikan offered in the next live auction lot. Two of them were the same..a 250 and two 480's I think they were.

 

.....There is a conspiracy of Ball Point Collectors contaminating the fountain pen market......... There were 6 or 7 BP's and RP's in that Pelikan three fountain pen lot that went for well over twice what I thought it worth.

I hadn't even looked at the MP, so it was my wife that said, the clip is not original. It looks like a generic clip of the era.

[SLinkster]

ETA details

 

Ok. The green pen is, obviously, a Pelikan. This is the M800 green demonstrator. I owned a couple of 120 pens, which are nice writers as far as they go, but they had not sold me on modern Pelikan ownership. I chatted up some people at the local pen club, tried a variety of Pelikans, and decided that either the M200 or the M400 would be a fine thing to own. The 1000-series is too large for me to write with comfortably (yes, I know, I have Jinhao 9019 which are enormous, but the two pens's grips are different!). I've since picked up a couple of M20*, one broad, one EF; and I have the Orange Delight on order with a ... broad nib.

 

So yesterday a friend and I made the trip to Dromgoole's in Houston. I had been scouting sales looking for a good price on an M405 Stresemann but found the M800 green demo on sale at Atlas. Dromgoole's had the M800 and I was able to handle it, finding it tasty and delicious - lovely in the hand, not too heavy, skates right along. When the clerk agreed to match the Atlas price I was sold and brought one home with a medium nib. I do question Pelikan's design team's decision to use WHITE Nauga for the pen sleeve - maybe they want us to think their pens never get messy?

 

I also spent an inordinate amount of time (and money) in the ink section of the store, but that's a different thread!

 

When we got back from Dromgoole's my Pen Chalet order was here. They had a lot of things on sale to reduce inventory prior to a move, who am I to not help out with that? I started with a pen that will be a gift (no details, the victim reads this forum) but found the Benu Minima in Purple Flame. Then of course there was ink, but again, different thread.

 

Kirk Speer tuned up three pens for me: two antique/vintage pens that are sentimental family heirlooms, and my Platinum pocket pen with the music stub. The Platinum is now smooth as butter on a hot knife, starts every time, and is wet without being a firehose. I had planned to have Kirk make a semi-sharp italic from a very boring Levenger B but it would have been narrower than I wanted, so I tried all his demo nibs and fell in love with the narrow architect. Money well-spent.

 

Here are some updated photos. I will post details of the inks elsewhere, probably in the "last impulsive ink purchase" thread. Since most of them were...impulsive purchases

 

[Prof Drew]

@SLinkster Wow, big order! Enjoy the custom grinds and all!

 

@Penguincollector Yes, warehouse dance   Cheers

[Tashi_Tsering]

14 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

A 224 Mount Blanc...the first medium-small MB pen I have 

 

Sorry, are you sure you wrote the correct number? If I remember correctly, the 224 has a pushbutton filler, no ink window. And the clip was different. The pen in the photo looks for me like a 264 (1st gen.). 

[sandy101]

On 1/31/2024 at 4:25 PM, ParkersandPilots said:

So yesterday, while writing some thoughts down, I had what I call "The Daily Carry Epiphany". Basically it's where 1 or 2 pens emerge in your mind as pens you could use everyday forever and be happy. For me, two pens for this category. 

 

First, the Wing Sung 3003. This pen is just so good for its price point ($3). It is light, a demonstrator, easy to fully disassemble for cleaning high maintenance inks, and is also easy to replace if lost of broken due to its price point. The pen also looks much more expensive than it is. 

 

And

 

Second, the Matte Black Fish-scale Majohn/Moonman A1. This pen just feels so efficient. It's actually kind of ruined capped pens for me, particularly screw on caps. It just seems like so much work now 😛 I love how indestructible it feels and with a wet ink (like Noodlers Black Eel) it writes so nicely. 

 

When did you have your "Daily Carry Epiphany", and what pen(s) did you realize were the pen(s) for you?

 

20 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

What is the ink please?

 

(The text is ... intriguing ... especially in juxtaposition with what you wrote about Spring.)

 

Interesting story found while searching around for an image of the painting that inspired this pen:

It doesn't refer to the color mauve but to Van Gogh's cousin by marriage, Anton Mauve, who was also one of Van Gogh's painting teachers. Upon learning the news of his death, Van Gogh dedicated the painting to Mauve on the same day he finished it.

 

[source: Pink peach trees ('Souvenir de Mauve') – Kröller-Müller Museum (krollermuller.nl)]

 

It's Visconti's black ink that's in it.It seems to flow well - so far no problems. 

 

Yes - the text is stream of conciousness stuff from a timed exercise- sowing ideas on a page - then looking for the ideas or images that stick out - and then turning them into stories or poems.

 

It starts from a book of prompts - so I choose one prompt a day and use that to start writing for at least five minutes. The results are often poor, clunky and not great, but the point is to get warmed up - and get writing. Good writing is rewriting.  

[PithyProlix]

15 hours ago, sandy101 said:

It's Visconti's black ink that's in it.It seems to flow well - so far no problems. 

 

Ah, it looks a bit brown or sepia-like in the photo. 

 

15 hours ago, sandy101 said:

Good writing is rewriting.  

 

I have difficulty figuring out when to stop rewriting ... 

[sandy101]

6 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

Ah, it looks a bit brown or sepia-like in the photo. 

 

That's probably from the yellow lighting in the Churchill Arms to creat a cosy atmosphere.