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

[Penguincollector]

8 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

The sterling Ciselés are drop dead gorgeous.  My only problem with mine (I don't think I have an 18K nib, just a regular 14K one) is that it looks too good with *expensive ink* coming out out of (the MB Jimi Hendrix homage ink).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 
😂 Champagne problems, Ruth! I was originally looking for a sterling one when I got my head turned by the vermeil last summer. I doubt that there’s an ink it won’t make look good. 😊 

[Wil D]

Bayard le spécial 8

[inkstainedruth]

9 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 
😂 Champagne problems, Ruth! I was originally looking for a sterling one when I got my head turned by the vermeil last summer. I doubt that there’s an ink it won’t make look good. 😊 

Never really like the looks of vermeil myself.  But sterling silver? I LOVE sterling silver....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mercian]

Currently waiting on the return of a repaired pen - my 1954 Pelikan 400.

 

Its piston gasket finally gave-up the ghost (after only 70 years! Is nothing made to last any more? ), so I had to send it away for repair (I made sure to keep its peerless, springy cursive-italic, nib here).

 

It is due to get back to me tomorrow, and I cannot waits to be reunited with it! 🤗

[Mercian]

20 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

The sterling Ciselés are drop dead gorgeous.  My only problem with mine (I don't think I have an 18K nib, just a regular 14K one) is that it looks too good with *expensive ink* coming out out of (the MB Jimi Hendrix homage ink).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I keep on running R&K Scabiosa through my own 75 in Ciselé Sterling Silver.

After what you’ve said, I’m now tempted to run a fill of Pure Pens ‘Flower of Scotland’ through it.

Silver pen + Purple ink = ♥️

😊

[inkstainedruth]

Wow.  Just looked at the Pure Pens website and that looks like it might not be too far off in color from the MB Jimi Hendrix ink.  And for WAY less money at that!  

Looks like another place to add to my spread sheet of what companies have various pens/inks/converters in stock, and what their minimum for free shipping are.  Thanks!  And, well, maybe not....  Especially since we probably have to have some work done on the minivan after I hit a pothole in my driveway recently and kinda ripped the front bumper off its mounting   The *day* after I got the vehicle inspected and had a strut replaced....  The mechanic was NOT amused, but was able to get a temporary fix done so my husband could drive to NYC over the weekend, pick up his sister, and then drive up to central-ish Massachusetts, and get more stuff from the storage unit when my late mother-in-law's house got cleaned out and sold.  

I had to drive the van today because it's further out in the driveway, but didn't have time to make another appointment at the mechanic's.  And of course I also need to make an appointment to get the Prius inspected before the end of the month as well.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[chromantic]

I learned yesterday morning at around 10:30am that my Vibrant Orange has left Tokyo at 10:15pm that same day! Yikes!!

[Misfit]

On 6/3/2024 at 8:01 AM, Skydiver said:

The TWSBI Go's and Swipe's are a cheaper and easier way to get replacement nibs for most of the other TWSBI models. It is easier to pull out the nib and feed out of these pens so the danger of damaging the fins on the feed goes down dramatically, so these make great donor pens.

You are so right about this. My brother and I went to Harrisonville, MO to find geocaches, and go to Scrapbook Memories.  The store had Lamy, Kaweco, and TWSBI fountain pens. My brother and I each got TWSBI pens. They came with F nibs. The TWSBI Go pens were in the mailbox when we got home. I remembered your post, and told my brother. We swapped nibs, and now are happy to have 1.1mm stub nibs on my Persian Green Eco and his black Diamond Mini. 

[PAKMAN]

A Pelikan M1000 fine nib Renaissance Brown.

[ParramattaPaul]

I'm still waiting for the FPUK limited edition pen.  

 

 

'Patience child, patience.'

[PAKMAN]

Waiting no longer! My M1000 Renaissance Brown showed up today!

 

[inkstainedruth]

Lamy al-Star Aquatic SE, M nib, and a converter for it (and also three bottles of ink).

Which reminds me!  I got the tracking # from Pen Boutique yesterday but the package hadn't gotten into the USPS system yet -- all I could tell was that "a label has been created".  So now have to plug the tracking # into their system to get updates (since the package is just coming from Maryland, I should have it by the end of the week ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[N1003U]

21 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

Waiting no longer! My M1000 Renaissance Brown showed up today!

 

Very nice-looking pen!

[txomsy]

A Lamy Logo.

 

Although it seems no longer made, I could find one at typical retail price yesterday. It is now on its way.

[Stompie]

Toms Studio Pocket Pen in Wisteria (Flower of Scotland ink perhaps?) with an italic nib. Should be here on Saturday.

[Bo Bo Olson]

In the mail...close enough. Tomorrow a woman will drop by to give me a black and gold that I bought from her, Osmia-Faber-Castell Progress 66 G from @ 1957.

Her grandparents lived a couple buildings away from the Osmia factory near Heidelberg....so they bought 'local'.

 

I drive past that building 3-4 times a year.

Heidelberg use to be the fountain pen capitol of the world. Lamy & Artus, Osmia, Kaweco, Faber Castell, Original Reform, Muetchler, Mercedes, Herlitz/Luxor and I may be missing one or two.

I have seen the old Herlitz building too, still has the name in the sandstone lintel. Been to the Lamy factory for a newspaper tour a decade ago.

[txomsy]

That is a fortunate coincidence. Proximity may be an advantage and an opportunity. I am glad that you are that lucky. Not to mean one must use as excuse for unnecessary expending, but good that the chances are there when one needs them.

 

Lucky you.

[Bo Bo Olson]

That 'Faber-Castell' Progress with the Osmia finial was delivered today.

It is an OB with a 14 K nib, and cost DM 15 in the late '50s (At 4 DM to 1 $ =$3.75).** The faded new gold oval is still on the cap.

A quick wipe with a gold cloth made the gold plated cap parts gleam.

 

The woman said she'd cleaned it, in it had been sitting around for 25 years from her father in laws house clearing....she meant wash it down, not removing antique ink.

 

Good thing I checked. It was still loaded with a BB. BB comes out out of the nib a bit stringy in the bathroom sink. Royal blues come out as a cloud.

It's a little stiff so I'm going to use Pelikan Edelstein Apatite, which I'd pulled out for another pen that got another ink. Edelstein inks are supposidly helpful with sticky pistons....not a Noodler's Eel ink.

Got to get some spray silicon and suck a water mix up on piston pens with out screw out nibs.

 

** The Germans and Japanese kept their currencies fixed artificially low against the dollar,  4 Dm=$1. Yen was 360 =1$. ( until @ 1971 when Nixon took the dollar out of silver) so they could export to American and not import from America. If bankers hadn't refused to give up on their yearly bonus, we'd gone metric and still been a great export nation.

German workers were underpaid by a lot. A US private was well paid. A prince after payday.

.................

Late '50's -early 1960 a ten cent Coke had 8 oz, a Pepsi, a big 10z. Royal Crown was 16 ounces, but didn't' taste all that good. But on a hot pre-AC summer day what could you do...big and cold was better than better tasting and small.

A nickle Snickers was BIG.

DC comic book was 10 cents...I think Disney was 12 cents. (pre-Marvel and that cost 15 cents in the early '60's when it came out....there I was, Spidy #1 folded in my back pocket walking home and swapped it in for the next week's Fantastic Four. cubed.) I didn't have any money for anything else.....oh, a mini-White Castle burger was a dime.

I think at a soda fountain in big department stores (small today), an ice cream soda cost 15 cents. An Ice Cream Sunday cost a whole quarter and with Hot Fudge Sunday 35 cents ....and you just don't know how hard it was to get up that extra dime.

Even the quarter was something one scraped up with luck every other week.

 

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How ever the Germans were so under paid, but they had/(have) with 30 days/6 weeks of vacation (socialism) ...1/2 a month's vacation money so they could go on vacation. A months Christmas bonus so they could buy Christmas gifts..........on the whole now in Germany that is often the good old days.

America's ill influences are and have getting their camel nose under the tent over here. Vacation and Christmas bonuses are disappearing.

[inkstainedruth]

I remember my mom's story about when she was a freshman in college (late 1930s) and her biology professor ran a car trip down to Florida every year (because the flora & fauna was so different from central West Virginia).  And he had the trip worked out to the penny about how much food and motels & gasoline were going to cost.  Only the year my mom went, she fussed about going someplace "nicer" for Christmas dinner -- and instead of meals being 35¢ US, at that place it was 50¢ (!) because the place had a bar (!).  

These days, you can't get out of a fast food place for under five or six bucks....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[A Smug Dill]

A Sailor Shikiori Otogibanashi Orihime, with 14K gold MF nib.