I got this pen today

[Misfit]

@tutelman actually the cost of the pens on eBay burst my bubble. Oh well, it’s fine if I don’t get one. 
 

Meanwhile, I did get a pen today. It’s a Levenger True Writer Purple Majesty with M nib. I plan on filling it from a sample of Noodler’s Purple Mountain Majesties ink. 
 

[tutelman]

Nice pen, Misfit.  Enjoy.

[Surlyprof]

On 9/12/2024 at 6:44 PM, Misfit said:

@tutelman thank you for sharing the information on Georg Jensen. I have Danish relatives and ancestry, which puts this penmaker on my radar now. Thank you again. 

Georg Jensen is more widely known as a designer and silversmith of, mostly, high end housewares.  I didn’t know he had worked with pens.

[Misfit]

2 hours ago, tutelman said:

Nice pen, Misfit.  Enjoy.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. 

[RedPie]

I got the following pens over the weekend. Pictures come later.

Jinhao 100 Centennial Galaxy Blue Sakura

Jinhao 500 Premium Metal Blue

Huashilai in blue as well. 😁

[RedPie]

Here the picture:

 

From left to right

Huashilai Blue

Jinhao 500 Premium Metal

Jinaho 100 Centennial Galaxy Blue Sakura

[Surlyprof]

Monday, a friend surprised me with her old Montblanc Meisterstuck 146 LeGrande and an Omas Galileo Galilei rollerball (or ballpoint).  After a little cleaning, the Montblanc (my first) writes like a dream.  Now I need to find refills that fit the Omas.  Fun surprise!  Not a usual Monday.

 

[PJS_prog]

I clearly need different friends.

 

Nice surprise, @Surlyprof.

[inkstainedruth]

Clearly you do.... 

A few years ago a friend of mine gave me a "gag gift" -- a pen she got on Freecycle (having no idea of what it was actually worth).   Pen turned out to be a Pelikan M200, in the original box -- which looked to be in mint condition itself!  Betting the pen was never inked up -- just tossed in a drawer in the box.  And then found years later by some person who had no idea of its value.  The "joke" part (and what attracted my friend) was that it had the Bayer Asprin logo on the barrel -- so guessing it was some sort of corporate gift (maybe for someone's retirement?).  It was probably from the 1980s or 1990s (I actually contacted Pelikan for more information), and I'm betting it was a $100+ pen.  That my friend got for FREE -- other than the gasoline to drive down river to wherever it came from.  I eventually swapped out the F nib unit on it for a broad italic which came on the (first) replacement M200 Café Crème (not 100% sure where the F unit has gotten to) when I was able to get a B nib at a pen show for the Café Crème).  The IB nib was a firehose even by Pelikan standards of "wet" but does well with 4001 Brilliant Black.  

I ended up giving her the Inoxcrom "Tin Tin" pen that someone had as a runner-up prize in a pay it forward on here a year or two later: the person posted a photo and you were supposed to come up with a funny caption and people would vote on the different captions.  First prize was some cheap Chinese pen, but I said that if I won I wanted the Inoxcrom instead because she's a HUGE fan of the comic and because (since her dad was from the northwest corner of Spain) just NEEDED a Spanish brand pen ....

And last week someone gave me another pen that's got an italic nib -- a Sheaffer No-Nonsense that has an orange (red-orange?) barrel and an off-white cap with a floral design on the cap.  That pen is currently inked up with some vintage Skrip Peacock, but the ink seems to be too wet for the nib , and I was having show-through and a tiny bit of bleed through in my current morning pages journal (and generally the Miquelrius paper is pretty FP friendly).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

On 9/17/2024 at 6:44 AM, RedPie said:

Here the picture:

 

From left to right

Huashilai Blue

Jinhao 500 Premium Metal

Jinaho 100 Centennial Galaxy Blue Sakura

  These are so pretty 😍 

[Penguincollector]

 I received my second Reform in the mail, a stately brown pen with a gold cap. It reminds me of my Geha, but the material feels thinner. I was surprised to see the nib is gold.
 

 

[Penguincollector]

On 9/13/2024 at 7:17 PM, Misfit said:

@tutelman actually the cost of the pens on eBay burst my bubble. Oh well, it’s fine if I don’t get one. 
 

Meanwhile, I did get a pen today. It’s a Levenger True Writer Purple Majesty with M nib. I plan on filling it from a sample of Noodler’s Purple Mountain Majesties ink. 
 

  That’s a pretty purple, Misfit. Enjoy!

[Misfit]

Thank you @Penguincollector

[RedPie]

4 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  These are so pretty 😍 

Thank you, I will try different blue inks in all of them!

[Misfit]

I received a Monteverde Mountains of the World Black Mountains pen with 1.1mm stub nib today. 
 

[Tashi_Tsering]

Arrived a few hours ago. 

 

Waterman’s no. 2. Long slender eyedropper, BCHR, slip cap. I think early 1900s. 

[GlenV]

1 hour ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

Arrived a few hours ago. 

 

Waterman’s no. 2. Long slender eyedropper, BCHR, slip cap. I think early 1900s. 

That’s really a cool pen, globe imprint so not early enough for a star 2 nib?

[Tashi_Tsering]

2 hours ago, GlenV said:

That’s really a cool pen, globe imprint so not early enough for a star 2 nib?

Thank you!
 

Unfortunately I don't know, I haven't yet studied the exact dating of this pen.

Maybe you can help? I have almost no information about early Waterman pens.

[GlenV]

It's been awhile since reviewing the catalogs, but I think the globe "baseball" imprint started about 1905, and the star 2 nib was earlier about 1895-9 maybe, however that

must be late for a step cap instead of a slip cap, but just looked the step cap eyedropper is still in the 1908 catalog and in the 1914 catalog with tapercaps only .

The writing on the nib also changes, the 1890's nibs having a flat across New York under the number (I have a number 3 from that time). @shalitha33 and others have more info and examples than I have seen though...The written imprints on the pen with 2 lines are not that rare but not too many single line imprints come up for sale that I see.

[Tashi_Tsering]

Thank you for this information, @GlenV!

Could you please clarify what you mean by "star 2 nib"?