What pen(s) are you waiting for in the mail?

[ParramattaPaul]

As of 15 seconds ago, this --  

 

Black and silver Onoto Excel with a broad nib.

[ParramattaPaul]

I should mention that Onoto is presently offering a 15% discount.  The code is Christmas2315.

[Bo Bo Olson]

That has a lot of old fashioned class.

 

[ParramattaPaul]

1 minute ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

That has a lot of old fashioned class.

 

Well, it's been said that I'm a classless, out of date dolt, so I guess I'm -- maybe -- in a way -- getting some sense of fashion and class -- at least a pen's worth.

[txomsy]

Yeah, I thought it was a vintage pen from beginning of the 20th.

[Runnin_Ute]

Soennecken Schulffuler piston filler. (See photo) Expect to have tracking in a day or two.

[Bo Bo Olson]

10 hours ago, Runnin_Ute said:

Soennecken Schulffuler piston filler

Soennecken was in the beginning, like MB out of my Ebay hunt.

I do have a Wet Noodle 7 X Soennecken nib. Don't know which parts of the pen are Soennecken.

 

I always wanted a 111 Extra in herringbone. I saved up a small fortune €750, and some Idiot Hunter on Ebay wanted over €900, and the herring bone was the simple black and silver not what I wanted.

After only 2/3rds of a year the money burnt a hole in my pocket, so I got 3 vintage (A Pelikan 500 & 400 light tortoise) and 3 semi-vintage Pelikan pens and a Pelikan  pen stand.

 

 

That Soennecken 111/222 etc was reputed to be the very best piston pen of the '50's.

[Baka1969]

I have a Lamy 2000 in stainless with a fine nib incoming. I also own the "standard" Makrolon version with a medium and wanted a fine nib Lamy 2000 to complement it. I chose the stainless so I can recognise the pen at a glance and not have to figure out which is which. This is what I've done with my Lamy Studio pens. I have two nearly identical looking MB 146 pens that I wish were different looking because it's a PITA to figure out which one is which without uncapping them. First world problems I know.

 

 

 

 

[ParramattaPaul]

Not the mail but Fed-Ex.  Fed-Ex says the Onoto Excel will arrive on Friday.  Happy, happy, happy!

 

[AmandaW]

A couple of Wing Sung 3003 in random colours. Hoping for two black ones... Couldn't find an Aliexpress seller with working ordering details to choose what wanted so I went with the random and paid extra for faster shipping instead.

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[Misfit]

I kind of found myself bidding on two pens on eBay, that turned into three. I added two that looked the same to my watch list. I set an alarm for when the auction ended. I was groggy, and instead of upping a bid, I bid on another pen. I won all three. So waiting on them. If two of them are indeed the same, bummer. But I can always give it to my brother if it looks like a guy’s kind of color. 

[Baka1969]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

I kind of found myself bidding on two pens on eBay, that turned into three. I added two that looked the same to my watch list. I set an alarm for when the auction ended. I was groggy, and instead of upping a bid, I bid on another pen. I won all three. So waiting on them. If two of them are indeed the same, bummer. But I can always give it to my brother if it looks like a guy’s kind of color. 

Come on! You can tell us. lol

[SLinkster]

From Japan, arriving today via FedEx:

a vintage Platinum with an 18k fine nib. Based on the color (coral pink) and the pattern (floral) I can guess it was marketed as a ladies' purse pen. No converter but I have plenty of Preppy cartridges and probably a converter knocking around in my odd bits box; I just hope a ~60yo pen will accept a modern c/c.

 

An eBay purchase that will get here when it gets here: an antique, dinky 3.5" No.2 ebonite eyedropper. The nib looks questionable but the rest of the pen looks good. The seller accepted a low-ball offer. I'm prepared to hunt down a replacement nib if necessary.

[Baka1969]

Two days. Two pens. Yesterday was the Lamy 2000 in stainless with fine nib. Today Diplomat Aero Stripes Black with fine nib. This will be my first Diplomat. I've already picked out their respective spots in my Maison de Plume.

 

 

[Misfit]

The three pens I won the auctions on arrived today. They shipped from Kansas City, MO, and I’m in a suburb, so it was quick.  The two I thought were possibly the same, well yes and no. I think they are what Levenger called Oceanic. One is white, and one is blue. Now that I have them, the colors are obviously different. I plan on posting on the thread “I got this pen today” photos of the eBay images vs my photos of the pens. I can edit this to add photos as well. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Reform had once up to the mid '50's when the owner closed his fountain pen company rather than make a cheap fountain pen, a very good, and a best German export pen maker. After a few years he sold his factory and name to Multschler a third tier fountain pen maker who lasted until the year 2000.....after which the tooling and names were sold to China.

My wife was at the second hand shop and found this pen set and a nice little decanter that we will be putting some sort of schnaps in.

 

This is a pre-1990  W. Germany fountain pen, in the ball point still has a made in Western Germany cartridge in it...looks like the basic Parker that everyone makes...under the Reform name. Degussa spade nib, regular flex.

It took forever to get the dried ink from before 1990 blue cartridge out of the front section...............and the ball point is dry.

A long time ago, I was given some Private Reserve ink cartridges. I re-hydrated a Chocolate Brown...on Mondi 100g paper...it is nothing special, don't shade...is if you look hard enough...brown.

I will take this opportunity to show off my other two Refome sets, in why not mode. Living in Germany I doubt may of us have a Reform set.

 

I really, really got to hang around German Ebay....the Reform pens of the early to mid 50's when he closed his factory, were well made, sharp, very for the time, modern pens.

 

This is one of the dirt cheap Mutschler pens, that at a distance looks very fine....with a metal top and a plastic body...'gold stuff' plated.....how ever the Degussa nib is  a maxi-semi-flex nib....and my first spade nib that was anything but a nail..........so I had to buy the junker because of the grand nib.

 

Degussa who had taken Osmia's nib factory for debt in 1932, made nibs besides under it's own mark; for Osmia, Geha, Soennecken in it's end, and Reform/Mutchler, up to 2000. So I'd expect Mutschler nibs to be of adequate quality, being made by Degussa.

 

This is NOS, so I have no idea how the nib is. The plastic box has never been opened. It has a black coated nib.  Looking at the picture under click mag, it was made in W. Germany times, so the black coated nib was way ahead of time...I think.

I had thought coated nibs came in about 2012 or so.

As for any, click to make bigger.

 

 

 

[Runnin_Ute]

The Soennecken tracking shows it should arrive on Saturday sometime. 

[Doc Dan]

TWSBI Diamond 580 Smoke and Rose Gold with 1.1 Stub Nib inbound. 

[Runnin_Ute]

23 hours ago, Runnin_Ute said:

The Soennecken tracking shows it should arrive on Saturday sometime. 

Arrived today.

[inkstainedruth]

Monteverde Strata, Omniflex nib.  I liked the Strata that a friend gave me a while back (it wasn't too heavy a pen for me), and have been curious about the Omniflex nibs for a while now.  So, when I saw Speerbob's post about his eBay listings this weekend, I took a look and saw the Strata and for that price I figured, what the heck....  (Admittedly, I was also looking at the purple Durograph, but it was more than double the price; and between OPS -- including the site hotel -- and the recent order to Pen Chalet, I was feeling a little poor.... )

Don't have tracking info yet, but according to eBay, the pen should be arriving the beginning to middle of next week.  (The Pen Chalet order -- a bunch of empty vials, two more vial trays, some ink samples and a couple of backup bottles of Namiki Black, since my husband's bottle is getting low -- arrived late this afternoon.)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth