Postcard Swap

[cklondon]

Sent a card off to Steve (sdcurnow) in sunny CA today. Added today's date to it as well.

 

Steve, let me know how long it takes to get there, we seem to have a black hole that sucks up about a week's time whenever something crosses the border out of Canada... :-)

 

Chris

[penburg]

Thanks, Laura, for my first ever postcard from Iowa which I received!

[sdcurnow]

Cards for Succubus and cklondon were posted this morning (4/16), and cards to Clancy and hari317 will be on their way tomorrow (4/17) morning.

 

--Steve

[Rincewind]

Great additional cards received this week from FredRydr and Frederick - thanks, guys!

 

One of my personal digital photo art Lord of the Rings postcards is on its way to BigJoe...

 

...and FredRydr will be the first to benefit from my discovery of new 'vintage' Japanese post cards (see my mini review under Paper & Pen Paraphernalia Reviews & Articles):

 

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg252/TheTimeTraveller/penposts/Cards2_640.jpg

[FredRydr]

I want to add that I've received cards from more than three-dozen of you, some requiring replies which shall be written, and others getting replies anyway. A lovely hand-painted card sits on my desk and even a very nice letter which shall be answered. I promise more responses will go out, too.

 

The internet (and telephones and telegrams and teletype) may have knocked the Mickey out of real paper and ink; we shall resist!

 

Thanks, everyone. Soon, I may put my toe into the letter forum to see how that goes, but I shall not forsake mailing my vintage and odd postcards.

 

Fred

[andru]

Fred, it looks like the ink/pen gave you some trouble, but the shading is wonderful. And very nifty postage stamps.

Andru, what was the pen & ink combination on that?

First off, thank you for your other postcard, which I received today (we were worried the first one had gone astray). Thanks very much for your extra effort!

 

To answer your question about the pen/ink on your first postcard, it was a 1928 Wahl Pen and Havana ink. It feathered a little, that's all. More the fault of the paper than of the pen/ink, I suppose.

 

[FredRydr]

Fred, it looks like the ink/pen gave you some trouble, but the shading is wonderful. And very nifty postage stamps.

Andru, what was the pen & ink combination on that?

First off, thank you for your other postcard, which I received today (we were worried the first one had gone astray). Thanks very much for your extra effort!

 

To answer your question about the pen/ink on your first postcard, it was a 1928 Wahl Pen and Havana ink. It feathered a little, that's all. More the fault of the paper than of the pen/ink, I suppose.

Okay. That's a stub, and a wet one at that. It's not my favorite writer, though pretty to behold. I've already emptied, rinsed and dried it for decommissioning. I need to give another chance. Later. Havana is one of my favorite inks, and I usually write with it using my 1920s marbled Morrison's, a fine-medium semiflex that always stays on my inked pen rack. And to think I bought it by mistake!

 

Fred

[sdcurnow]

Received a fine card from Penburg yesterday! Thanks.

[Clancy]

Rec'd. a great card from 'ginigin' in Riner, VA. yesterday and posted one off to 'sdcurnow' in Dixon, CA.

 

Thanks gang!

[pmsalty]

Got three this week, Lucas from Libson!, Judybug, wonderful '38 Packard and the lighthouse from Gini!

Thanks

PMS

[gr10girl]

HI... I'm so sorry I'm a bit late... a lot late, but I've gotten one from everyone who's promised one, and I still owe one... I'M SO SORRY! I had a slight mishap involving a missing wallet falling behind my bed, behind the under bed storage, and I've been so busy I keep forgetting to stop by the bookstore... my apologies, penburg!

[cklondon]

Received a nice card from KingJoe showing the Kentucky Horse Park. He used a Parker 61 Capillary and Waterman Burple (sp?) ink

 

He gave me the history of his pen - $5 at an antique shop! I am jealous!

 

Chris

[cklondon]

OK, my current run of card swaps is over and I am feeling lonely...

 

Anyone else (even from outside North America) interested in swapping? This is almost as addictive as collecting fountain pens!

 

PM for mailing details if you are interested. I have an urge to use note cards this time!

 

Chris

[FredRydr]

OK, my current run of card swaps is over and I am feeling lonely...

 

Anyone else (even from outside North America) interested in swapping? This is almost as addictive as collecting fountain pens!

 

PM for mailing details if you are interested. I have an urge to use note cards this time!

 

Chris

Chris,

 

I'll send another.

 

Fred

[penburg]

HI... I'm so sorry I'm a bit late... a lot late, but I've gotten one from everyone who's promised one, and I still owe one... I'M SO SORRY! I had a slight mishap involving a missing wallet falling behind my bed, behind the under bed storage, and I've been so busy I keep forgetting to stop by the bookstore... my apologies, penburg!

 

No problem!

 

I've noticed that my inks don't look very good on most postcards that I can get around here. There's a kind of gloss or sheen that doesn't bring out the best of the color for some reason. I'm sure that fountain-pen-writing-postcard-users are a pretty small market, though, so I'm not sure I'll make a fuss.

[sdcurnow]

I received my postcard from cklondon today, 7 days to cover 2 countries from coast to coast.

 

--Steve

Edited April 23, 2008 by sdcurnow

[Clancy]

Hooray..!

Rec'd an informative and colorful postcard yesterday from 'sdcurnow' in Dixon, CA. The card is from Suisun Valley, a bountiful, rich agricutural valley in the region with it's own unique micro climate (as is the case with many of the small valleys in northern California).

Very nice handwriting!

 

Thanks Steve.

[rogerb]

I've noticed that my inks don't look very good on most postcards that I can get around here. There's a kind of gloss or sheen that doesn't bring out the best of the color for some reason. I'm sure that fountain-pen-writing-postcard-users are a pretty small market, though, so I'm not sure I'll make a fuss.

 

Yes, some of them also take ages for the ink to dry, and I have smudged a few

As I said previously, some people get around this by pasting a pice of nice notepaper to the postcard.

 

I am up for more PCs to and from Spain, too ...just PM me

 

[ihappen]

Wow, wonderful idea!

 

Am In Portsmouth UK and would be happy to send / receive from anywhere. Also as I have a habit of ending up odd places around the UK would be happy to send postcards from the odder places I end up!

[ash13brook]

Does anyone else, like me, enjoy receiving 'real' mail from all over the world? There are such a variety of members here that I thought it would be interesting to swap postcards of our town which have been written with a fountain pen. You could include details about the pen and ink you are using on the card, or just a general message about your hometown!

 

I'm happy to send postcards from Canterbury, United Kingdom to anyone who would like to receive one. Let me know in the forum below or send me a PM.

 

Please add me to the list. I have about twenty vintage postcards from all over the USA, many from before zip codes. When they're gone, I'll find more.