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

[MrDickens]

5 hours ago, ParramattaPaul said:

I've considered doing that, but I've never been a fan of 'paperwork'.  As close as I've come is actually labeling boxes.

 

I also have a card index of pens & inking, slowly being transferred to an online database discovered here on FPN though I'll probably keep the card index as well as both appease my ocd!

[Bo Bo Olson]

When Murphy is your god, life is never boring...of course you get hit by another worshiper, who also wasn't looking where they were going, because they were watching for problems instead of the surroundings.

You can tell those who watch surroundings....they are broken down on the side of the road.

 

Old Adage 1.0, if something is lost toss similar over your shoulder....Old Adage 2.0 = now two lost similars.

There are 4 one inch thick by 6x4" books on Murphy's law....just in-case your day was going good.

 

[Penguincollector]

I finally found a blue and rose gold Cross Century II for a good price. It’s the pen I was seeking when I bought the Wanderlust Malta and the blue and chrome Century II. 

[Misfit]

I’m waiting on quite a few. Most are Kaweco, the AL Iguana blue, Raw aluminum and Aurora green, Sports in gray, and granite gray. Amazon had a deal to add a Discover card and get $20 on items sold and fulfilled by them. I ended up, after looking a long time, using the $20 off on a Conklin Duragraph Amber. 
 

edit:  the $20 offer only worked on items sold and fulfilled by amazon, and none of the Kaweco pens were sold by them. 

Edited June 27, 2023 by Misfit

[Bo Bo Olson]

I have my eye on a piston Kawaco Sport with a gold nib, at a local auction house I didn't know existed....and a few low end MB pens (have to check the nibs...regular flex or semi-flex...yes...nails no, no matter how cheap)....Start prices low enough...a few inkwells.... one from 1874.

 

Kawaco was not a brand I chased... back in the good old cheap days......Pelikan, Osmia, a few vintage and semi-vintage MB's and lots of no names....no Kaweco or Soennedkens.

[inkstainedruth]

Lamy al-Star Gold and Black SE from a few years ago.  

Darn it, I don't really like that sort of gold/yellow color normally -- but the black clip and nib against the gold barrel and cap just made the pen too enticing.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

6 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Kawaco was not a brand I chased... back in the good old cheap days......Pelikan, Osmia, a few vintage and semi-vintage MB's and lots of no names....no Kaweco or Soennedkens.

I feel similarly. Recently I realized, after getting the Frosted natural coconut Kaweco, I wished I’d chased them instead of Lamy Safari and Al-Star special editions. I could have had cool Art Sport Kaweco pens, and who knows what I missed. My first Kaweco was when the Mint Skyline came out. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Not quite the mail, I won two pens in a live auction on Saturday, but couldn't pick up until Wednesday.

And it helps to clean a tarnished gold nib on the MB 32 before inking it. It is semi-flea, so is the Kaweco 12 G, from '60-70, semi-flex gold F

It's nicer to write with than the MB from the nib..

I had put my mind to having a piston kaweco sport in most of my pens are piston....don't count I have Kaweco ink cartridge to sample it's inks.....Ah Ha!!! Now I have an excuse to buy Kaweco ink in the bottle.

 

 

The MB is semi-flex, when tested against my thumbnail, I thought it maxi-semi-flex, but the tine bend was too little once inked.

 

[PatrickA]

3 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Not quite the mail, I won two pens in a live auction on Saturday, but couldn't pick up until Wednesday.

And it helps to clean a tarnished gold nib on the MB 32 before inking it. It is semi-flea, so is the Kaweco 12 G, from '60-70, semi-flex gold F

It's nicer to write with than the MB from the nib..

I had put my mind to having a piston kaweco sport in most of my pens are piston....don't count I have Kaweco ink cartridge to sample it's inks.....Ah Ha!!! Now I have an excuse to buy Kaweco ink in the bottle.

 

 

The MB is semi-flex, when tested against my thumbnail, I thought it maxi-semi-flex, but the tine bend was too little once inked.

 

 

I was not aware there was a piston Kaweco Sport, very interesting especially with a semi-flex nib, looks like a nice pocket pen for drawing. Will have to do some research......

 

Those smaller vintage MB's are still pretty nice pens for daily use, a have a couple (12/32/34/221), my favorites are my 042G and 344G. 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

 

I had known the Kaweco Sport came in piston, in it had been 'perfected' in the mid/late '30's. Some times (often) I have a spleen, in this case I wanted it in piston and hoped for semi-flex....It was worth the wait........not all semi-flex are created equal....and this is a better one.

 

My first and favorite MB was a  standard sized 234 1/2 Deluxe (52-54 only)KOB semi-flex (my first MB)...considering it has brass guts and is slightly back weighted, my best balanced pen. It was part of a live auction lot, and not the pen I was aiming at a 400nn, which ended up the 4th best balanced pen of my noobie 20 pen balance test.

I was so noobie and knew only the 146/9, thought it ugly, not knowing it was a refined version of a 139, of which I knew nothing. I lucked into a copy of the '89 copy of Lambrous book on pens.

This one has a masterstuck clip and a solid cap lip.........

I was totally shocked how much that Deluxe has been offered for over the years. I do suggest getting a regular much cheaper  234 1/2, it will have the same great balance, in it too is a telegraph piston, and will have a great semi-flex nib.

 

My second best balanced MB is a medium-large '48-60 146 in a maxi-semi-flex.....The ugly beater pen in a 4 pen live auction lot...I had been 'hunting' real real slow (lack of $$) for a MB maxi-semi-flex that that pen had (and Maxi-semi-flex is all luck unless you are chasing an Osmia or O-F-C pen.)....it was in such bad shape I was wondering if I should offer up a modern large 146 to put that grand nib on........Francis did wonders with that beater. (wish I had taken a before picture....in no way in hell did I think this would come out of it. There were no bands....the cap was slightly bent so it really didn't screw on well, and it was a beater....I was h[ping for a fake band to keep the cap form splitting and it straightened out enough to screw the cap on...only.  And I got a wonder back.

 

 

And I have a pre'24 MB Safety Pen.(my wife was given for free at a flea market in it didn't work....(did too it was a Safety pen, which the owner didn't know.) A pen that old needs a new gasket, with Francis again did wonders with. It is a Weak Kneed Wet Noodle, Simplo #6 nib, needing at less than half  the pressure of a wet noodle. That term was invented by John Soroka, the English nib grinder. the hand made 950 Parisian silver snake cost more than the repair.

In both cases, Francis said polishing them was a lot of work.

This is part of this old beater's condition.

 

 

 

After quite a while one has most of the pens one wants, so don't buy as many, meaning a higher priced pen can be bought, or in my case, bid on....by waiting for them to show up in auctions also allows me to save up money....well, I do waste it on inkwells....

So I'm still in the vintage market, not chasing LE's....they didn't call them LE's back then...there are a couple old full tortoise Pelikans I'd like or a MB in color.

 

Once all I had to worry about in a live auction was beating a dealer who had to make a profit. Now telephone and computer bidding has let the rich idiots from Ebay back into the game. 

[PatrickA]

Those are beautiful pens and restorations, getting a little bit of pen envy 😆.

 

That's a good one, being given a MB safety pen for free 😂. I have been to a lot of flea markets but unfortunately that never happened to me.  There are less and less pens to be found in the wild anyway, guess everyone does a little online research and offers them on Ebay or similar sites.

 

I fully agree that prices for some more interesting pens have gone through the roof with nice deals becoming more and more difficult to be had.

 

 

Willl have to do a little homework on the piston Kaweco and possibly the 234 1/2. Unfortunately I have spent my funny money for now so will have to take it easy for a while.

 

[GlenV]

A little 52 1/2 V, I can’t wait to try out the nib one of my favorites

[Sinistral1]

@GlenVI'm curious to find out what the nib in your new Waterman 52 1/2 V turned out for you!

 

I just ordered a Sailor 1911s 2023 pen of the year.  It is a beautiful olive green with embedded gold flecks and a 14kt gold extra fine nib.  And now I wait.....

[inkstainedruth]

Parker Vector (M nib, I think) in an interesting design -- sort of a rose pink with flowers on it.  But sadly, though I believe the pen has been shipped, I'm not expecting it to arrive anytime soon (the ETA was early to mid October...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[GlenV]

 

 

2 hours ago, Sinistral1 said:

@GlenVI'm curious to find out what the nib in your new Waterman 52 1/2 V turned out for you!

 

I just ordered a Sailor 1911s 2023 pen of the year.  It is a beautiful olive green with embedded gold flecks and a 14kt gold extra fine nib.  And now I wait.....

Hi Sinistral1  it's nice not super fine for calligraphy efforts but soft wet with flex. I going to have to stop searching for soft old flexible nibs (not! ha)

[Jayebird]

I'm waiting on the new TWSBI 580 ALR in Sunset Yellow, a Kaweco in "soft mandarin" and a Montblanc Generation in orange. Theme? I don't see a theme... 🙂

[N1003U]

Now waiting on a Pelikan M600 Glauco Cambon Special Edition. Sounds like I will be waiting a few weeks.

[metalhead]

Ensso Piuma Ultem, finally found someone who wanted to part with one of theirs.

Any recommendations on inks that make an utlem eyedropper look fab ?

[A Smug Dill]

A Majohn A1 (or is that AK1?) in grey with ‘fishscales’ finish — although that may be the item that was delivered this morning

 

An Asvine V126 in smoke grey

 

Two HongDian D1 piston-fillers, which according to HongDian's marketing copy are fitted with the brand's first soft nibs

 

Eight Wing Sung 3008 piston-fillers (and, yes, I still have enough spare nylon screws to proactively replace their factory-fitted, rust-prone cap finial screws)

[Armo]

Waiting on an aution sale Pelikan. It's probably an M200, marked W Germany so pre 1991 and there is always the outside chance that it may turn out to be an M250 but of course I feel that's unlikely.