Blue Pen Club- Show Me Your Blue Pens!

[Penguincollector]

10 hours ago, jchch1950 said:

Parker CT 45 are one of the nicest lines in the 45 families.

 

2 hours ago, USG said:

Nice !!!  Yours  is in better shape than mine. Haha.  The hood contracted over the years and now form fits the nib plastic. 

  Thanks! I also think that it’s a nice line. I like the color continuation from the barrel to the cap. It’s too bad about the hood material, I was looking at a really nice turquoise one but the hood had shrunk and was discolored. My theory is that those were daily carry, and the acidic sweat (and oils) from the user’s skin affected the section. 

[Penguincollector]

11 hours ago, txomsy said:

I was given this Cross pen as a present. It sits inked continuously on my desktop at work, so I can have it always at hand. I bought a converter for it so I can fill from a bottle of Koh-I-Noor Document black or blue.

 

 

 

None of the pictures does justice to its true color.

  I agree with you, both my blue Cross pens are really difficult to photograph, and the rose gold trimmed one is a totally different shade of blue than  both the Cross company and seller photos. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Since this thread started, my blue Cross Townsend, is sitting in the original brown Cross carton and box....sitting, right in front of me on a stand I put on my desk top.

It may have only been dipped, in back then I was into semi-flex and now having a mind open enough for regular flex/Japanese soft. It was on sale of course.

 

 

I'm starting to get a guilty feeling, but with 11 pens inked....4 more than the limit I strive to keep...7...so I can use up more ink.

 

I just needle cleaned a Parker cartridge for my P-75 and put in DA Zementgrau, a gray that reminds me of a summer California flight line, after a rain as the sun starts lightening the horizon..

 

...I could have put that into the Cross....Diamine silver Fox would be nice. Then I could compare....

My  Pelikan Pastel Blue 200 is low...and the Cross box has just been set a bit out of the stand....harder to ignore.

At least I'm back to using my Pastel Blue 200.

 

[Penguincollector]

I understand, having just inked my blue Platinum BelAge. I bought it in February and other pens were a bigger priority for one reason or another. I finally just took a cartridge off one of my other inked Platinum pens to try it out.  I’m glad you’re enjoying your pastel blue Pelikan, it’s such a lovely pen. 🥰

[USG]

5 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I just needle cleaned a Parker cartridge for my P-75 and put in DA Zementgrau, a gray that reminds me of a summer California flight line, after a rain as the sun starts lightening the horizon..

 Hey BBO 

What would we do without our hobby? 🤷‍♂️

[Penguincollector]

5 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

a gray that reminds me of a summer California flight line, after a rain as the sun starts lightening the horizon..

  This is lovely prose. 

[Tashi_Tsering]

I have two Montegrappa in Mediterranean blue celluloid. Hard to make photo with true colors, but celluloid is very pretty.

 

On top: Montegrappa Classica, on bottom — Montegrappa Symphony

[Penguincollector]

22 minutes ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

I have two Montegrappa in Mediterranean blue celluloid. Hard to make photo with true colors, but celluloid is very pretty.

 

On top: Montegrappa Classica, on bottom — Montegrappa Symphony

 

 

  Oh, that celluloid is gorgeous! I can imagine it must be tenfold in person. I love the clip and the autograph band on the Symphony.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I inked it...anyway.

This Townsend blue is darker and older than  the Townsend Quartz Blue. Steel nib. M.

I did ink it with Diamine Silver Fox. It has a 'regular flex' M nib.

I had an old, written in nib in M (in spite of having served thirty years in my wife's jewelry jail, P-75.

Both M....Semi-nail Parker vs 'regular flex' Cross.

And or the Parker wrote wetter than the Cross.

 

Paper used Mondi Color Copy 100g/32 pounds.

Both inks shade,

DA Zementgrau, is either through nib or ink, is wetter than Diamine Silver Fox; therefor darker.

Neither is a shading monster.

There is just enough shading to add a bit of interest to the writing on real good paper.

I do have three or four other grays...........not counting my last cartridge of pre 1990 W.Germany Pelikan Gray and Silver Gray....

 

Pelikan had for the time an unbelievable amount of ink colors...I had 6-7 of some 15 or so of that era. I did mail my 'girly colors' to girls...., lilac, rose and a couple different pinks were not my cup of tea. ..........Early prejudices are hard to break.

That orange was good too........................to bad, do you know how big a boot you have to have, when you fly backwards in time?

 

[Doug C]

10 hours ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

I have two Montegrappa in Mediterranean blue celluloid. Hard to make photo with true colors, but celluloid is very pretty.

 

On top: Montegrappa Classica, on bottom — Montegrappa Symphony

I have a Miya in that celluloid and it is beautiful.  I recently sold a Harmony which is the resin version of the Symphony. 

Dumb move on my part.

[inkstainedruth]

12 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  This is lovely prose. 

Well, he *is* an author!  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Penguincollector]

41 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Well, he *is* an author!  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

  I know, it doesn’t mean that he can’t be complimented on his craft.  😉 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thank's Ruth and Penguin,

 

 

I thought I was almost done with a four book saga....could be five, now. ,...on the last chapter, months ago. It was only supposed to take a couple days.

Then I went back to write a 15 page scene to remind any reader of my western saga, how dangerous,  my murderous heroine and her dumb blond bombshell sidekick were.

A hundred and fifty pages later, two heavy fisted villains are approaching the Establishment. Poor fools.

 

(And it was time to build up the blond's character....and plant a seed for someone else's happy end) and do the under seam of Leadville, a major mining camp..

What did I learn....the best sardines are caught in season...(In Europe..French Brittany, Portuguese and then Spanish...Norway is good too.) ...in American sardines are not sardines but less tasting small herring) , should be aged in the can for 3 or more years, turning the can's every few months.

My wife was always into sardines, me not, until now.  I already ate up all the good sardines I was suppose to turn for three years....Eating good sardines, compared to the American ones I ate much of my life, is like shot glass calvados vs aged snifter glass calvados; French apple brandy............I was late to that party too.

 

 

Such Establishments 'free lunch'' had to have kitchens finer than the better saloon's 'French Buffet', three drink, free lunch.

 

In the West, City men in derbies when into good walnut wainscotted saloons and ordered Sherry, and on any rail way, ice shaken cocktails and fine scotches and cognacs.

 

Derbies/Bowlers were worn by most cowboys until 1885's Wild Bill Cody's Wild West Show showed cowboys they were supposed to wear blow off your head wide brimmed  hats instead of British horseman's hard hat, stay on your head, Bowlers.

Good saloons had clean white towels on brass rings on the side of the bar to wipe the foam out of your mustache.

 

Ill paid ($15-if Mexican or Black, $20 if white and not a top hand, cow drovers,) Stayed in the cheap saloon side of town, with got to be drunk to eat the free lunch,  and did not wear a gun....someone well off and respectable might have a shoulder holster under his suit coat....or a couple  deranges in his coat pockets. ***

Shooting up the town for fun and games was a mistake like Norhfield or Coffeeville showed. Lots of bored War veterans with rifles.

 

Poor Hollywood, saloon girls were dancing B girls drinking dove tea...what they did after they got off work was their business. Too Bad, Miss Kitty....and Hollywood, B girls wore to the floor, normal dresses.

 

But they made a whole $15 a week. ....Normal women made $3.50 a week for 12 hour days, and seamstresses had to take the work home with them.

A cheap flop house cost 25 cents a night. 10 cents for a breakfast, and a cheap lunch cost 15 cents....dinner started at two bits.

It was no wonder shop girls that didn't live at home were so skinny and open for a different job, with such starvation wages.

I'd not expected to be so socially irate about life in the middle of the Victorian Age....so to my surprise, am now irate when the past leapfrogs into the present. Comstock has been resurrected.

 

*** someone respectable, I think he was a barber, shot some trouble making gun fighter in the back with a shotgun. When asked why he did it, said, "He's dead. I'm alive and that's the way I wanted it...and he was not arrested!!!

Respectability pays.

 

 

[Penguincollector]

40 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Thank's Ruth and Penguin,

 

 

I thought I was almost done with a four book saga....could be five, now. ,...on the last chapter, months ago. It was only supposed to take a couple days.

Then I went back to write a 15 page scene to remind any reader of my western saga, how dangerous,  my murderous heroine and her dumb blond bombshell sidekick were.

A hundred and fifty pages later, two heavy fisted villains are approaching the Establishment. Poor fools.

 

(And it was time to build up the blond's character....and plant a seed for someone else's happy end) and do the under seam of Leadville, a major mining camp..

What did I learn....the best sardines are caught in season...(In Europe..French Brittany, Portuguese and then Spanish...Norway is good too.) ...in American sardines are not sardines but less tasting small herring) , should be aged in the can for 3 or more years, turning the can's every few months.

My wife was always into sardines, me not, until now.  I already ate up all the good sardines I was suppose to turn for three years....Eating good sardines, compared to the American ones I ate much of my life, is like shot glass calvados vs aged snifter glass calvados; French apple brandy............I was late to that party too.

 

 

Such Establishments 'free lunch'' had to have kitchens finer than the better saloon's 'French Buffet', three drink, free lunch.

 

In the West, City men in derbies when into good walnut wainscotted saloons and ordered Sherry, and on any rail way, ice shaken cocktails and fine scotches and cognacs.

 

Derbies/Bowlers were worn by most cowboys until 1885's Wild Bill Cody's Wild West Show showed cowboys they were supposed to wear blow off your head wide brimmed  hats instead of British horseman's hard hat, stay on your head, Bowlers.

Good saloons had clean white towels on brass rings on the side of the bar to wipe the foam out of your mustache.

 

Ill paid ($15-if Mexican or Black, $20 if white and not a top hand, cow drovers,) Stayed in the cheap saloon side of town, with got to be drunk to eat the free lunch,  and did not wear a gun....someone well off and respectable might have a shoulder holster under his suit coat....or a couple  deranges in his coat pockets. ***

Shooting up the town for fun and games was a mistake like Norhfield or Coffeeville showed. Lots of bored War veterans with rifles.

 

Poor Hollywood, saloon girls were dancing B girls drinking dove tea...what they did after they got off work was their business. Too Bad, Miss Kitty....and Hollywood, B girls wore to the floor, normal dresses.

 

But they made a whole $15 a week. ....Normal women made $3.50 a week for 12 hour days, and seamstresses had to take the work home with them.

A cheap flop house cost 25 cents a night. 10 cents for a breakfast, and a cheap lunch cost 15 cents....dinner started at two bits.

It was no wonder shop girls that didn't live at home were so skinny and open for a different job, with such starvation wages.

I'd not expected to be so socially irate about life in the middle of the Victorian Age....so to my surprise, am now irate when the past leapfrogs into the present. Comstock has been resurrected.

 

*** someone respectable, I think he was a barber, shot some trouble making gun fighter in the back with a shotgun. When asked why he did it, said, "He's dead. I'm alive and that's the way I wanted it...and he was not arrested!!!

Respectability pays.

 

 

 

    This ties in with the local history (Oregon) I’ve been catching up on. Life sure was both difficult and interesting back then. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I use the free Mormon's US census, and the City Directory...pre telephone book.

I find it easier to use real people as often as I can, they were there, they had family.

One of the odd things was Governor Perkins was of bad health for a long time. so he adapted his nurse and grown daughter. The nurse was older than him. He did have regular family also.

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

I found they have been lying about the history of New Mexico for the last 150 years...that it was too hard for the Rail Road who tamed a Glorieta Pass...and ox carts arrived from passing that pass to Santa Fe.............it was too difficult for a railroad to follow a ox cart/wagon path....right, do you want to buy salvage points from me for the Brooklyn bridge?

 

What actually happened is everyone bought up the all the right away. Santa Fe wouldn't let the railroad platt a brand new town on land that was  to be given to them at the edge of the old town....killing it. Which was par for the course all over the west.

 

@ 1879/80 Bishop Lamy worried about all the Protestants taking over his town...the Capitol, ...gave the rail roads free worthless church land from where the road turned north to Santa Fe, to Albuquerque ...where the RR killed the old Mexican town, with it's platted new town.

 

All Bishop Lamy (a Frenchman) wanted was a rail line from his quarry  at 'Lamy' a mile or two away from the spur line to Santa Fe in he was building a cathedral over his adobe church and needed cheap transport. of his stones.

 

Santa Fe 'died'. Why go out of your way an hour and have to wait all day for the connection, and the next day back for an adobe town on a mountain. The Protestants lost....in Santa Fe never grew into the city it could have been.

 

1930's the Democrat Party told the Democrat Governor, they wouldn't support him for re-election.  So he moved heaven and hell to get Route 66 finished enough so it by passed Santa Fe.....

 

Santa Fe remains picturesque because of those two men..

 

[Penguincollector]

Bishop Lamy! ¡Quelle coïncidance!

[Doug C]

2 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I use the free Mormon's US census, and the City Directory...pre telephone book.

I find it easier to use real people as often as I can, they were there, they had family.

One of the odd things was Governor Perkins was of bad health for a long time. so he adapted his nurse and grown daughter. The nurse was older than him. He did have regular family also.

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

I found they have been lying about the history of New Mexico for the last 150 years...that it was too hard for the Rail Road who tamed a Glorieta Pass...and ox carts arrived from passing that pass to Santa Fe.............it was too difficult for a railroad to follow a ox cart/wagon path....right, do you want to buy salvage points from me for the Brooklyn bridge?

 

What actually happened is everyone bought up the all the right away. Santa Fe wouldn't let the railroad platt a brand new town on land that was  to be given to them at the edge of the old town....killing it. Which was par for the course all over the west.

 

@ 1879/80 Bishop Lamy worried about all the Protestants taking over his town...the Capitol, ...gave the rail roads free worthless church land from where the road turned north to Santa Fe, to Albuquerque ...where the RR killed the old Mexican town, with it's platted new town.

 

All Bishop Lamy (a Frenchman) wanted was a rail line from his quarry  at 'Lamy' a mile or two away from the spur line to Santa Fe in he was building a cathedral over his adobe church and needed cheap transport. of his stones.

 

Santa Fe 'died'. Why go out of your way an hour and have to wait all day for the connection, and the next day back for an adobe town on a mountain. The Protestants lost....in Santa Fe never grew into the city it could have been.

 

1930's the Democrat Party told the Democrat Governor, they wouldn't support him for re-election.  So he moved heaven and hell to get Route 66 finished enough so it by passed Santa Fe.....

 

Santa Fe remains picturesque because of those two men..

 

Here I am in Albuquerque and knew little of this..

[Bo Bo Olson]

The rich and powerful families who stayed in State  power for many generations,  wrote state history, so no one could blame them, that Santa Fe never grew.

All that money wasted in buying up right away property's.

 

My heroine visits Albuquerque, meets the three Blonger brothers; one a prospector, One eyed Sam was a Marshal, slightly crippled up (can not stand up being a clerk for 12 hours a day***...so becomes a con man,) from the first weeks of the War, Lou famous for being the crime boss of Denver 1890-1920. There is total of five brothers, she meets 4.

One is the supervisor for the Robert E. Lee mine in Leadville, the one she don't meet is the youngest, the newly married mining brother.

 

Speilberg...could be slightly mispelt, was then just a store in 1880, later larger in more NM cities. Have no idea if the movie director is related, but thought it made a good play, on modern fame.

And Town Marshal. Milt Yarberry, once a bad man, turned good, was railroaded into his hanging. She don't expect the death sentence, but she in in Leadville or he'd been broken out of jail. Her friends are sacred.

IMO the mayor taught the next marshal to pay more of his graft to the mayor.

 

The rest deleted that don't have to do with NM.

 

 

 

[Misfit]

Just to be correct on this, it’s right of way.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Deleted too much BS on my book.