Green Pen Club - Show Us Your Green Pens!

[RedPie]

What a wonderful pen. Congratulations! Great story too. Shows us, to never give up... 😁

[amberleadavis]

@JonSzanto Thank you for sharing!

[amberleadavis]

So here was my surprise acquisition at the Colorado Pen show. All three nibs have been customized by Richard Binder.  The pen has never been inked.  It is a button filler. I haven't committed to the ink yet.

 

https://newpentrace.net/penbase/Data_Returns/full_article91b8.html?id=457

 

 

 

[amberleadavis]

[JonSzanto]

4 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

Boy, the Italians sure know how to do green materials!

 

BTW, 5 minutes ago I looked at new listings and I *think* I just saw the FP to your green MB ballpoint.

[amberleadavis]

5 minutes ago, JonSzanto said:

 

Boy, the Italians sure know how to do green materials!

 

BTW, 5 minutes ago I looked at new listings and I *think* I just saw the FP to your green MB ballpoint.

 

I think you are correct.  It's a beauty.

[Misfit]

@amberleadavis wow, just wow, that pen is so beautiful. The green is rich and varied. So gorgeous. 

[Ceilidh]

Amber - As Misfit said, Wow! Beautiful pen. And bonus Binder nibs too. (Do I see a stub? No wonder you're drooling, Misfit.  ) A pen show score for sure!

[SLinkster]

All the green pens. Mostly AliExpress, uninked unless otherwise noted. Quite a few of these qualify for the Demonstrator thread, too, but I'm not going to cross-post.

 

Left to right

Pilot Metropolitan, medium cursive stub

Two cheap kid pens from TEMU, EF

A Jinhao "morandi" EF. I think this might be a knockoff of a Platinum student pen?

Two birds, one EFF, one F; the F inked with Oster Australis Tea, the other is in the drawer.

FanMu double-ender

Parker 45; currently has an EF installed but I also have F/M/B/St nib units for this pen

Estie, 1550 EF

Charlie, Platinum Lavender-Black

Preppy 03

Lamy AL-Star with a naginata nib

Jinhao 992 EF

A couple of Lanbitou TWSBI knockoffs

A Lamy knockoff with a naginata nib

Aaaand maybe a knockoff of a knockoff of a TWSBI?

 

 

[amberleadavis]

5 hours ago, Ceilidh said:

Amber - As Misfit said, Wow! Beautiful pen. And bonus Binder nibs too. (Do I see a stub? No wonder you're drooling, Misfit.  ) A pen show score for sure!

 

I think you are correct, this pen screams @misfit. It has 3 stub nibs.

[amberleadavis]

4 hours ago, SLinkster said:

All the green pens. Mostly AliExpress, uninked unless otherwise noted. Quite a few of these qualify for the Demonstrator thread, too, but I'm not going to cross-post.

 

Left to right

Pilot Metropolitan, medium cursive stub

Two cheap kid pens from TEMU, EF

A Jinhao "morandi" EF. I think this might be a knockoff of a Platinum student pen?

Two birds, one EFF, one F; the F inked with Oster Australis Tea, the other is in the drawer.

FanMu double-ender

Parker 45; currently has an EF installed but I also have F/M/B/St nib units for this pen

Estie, 1550 EF

Charlie, Platinum Lavender-Black

Preppy 03

Lamy AL-Star with a naginata nib

Jinhao 992 EF

A couple of Lanbitou TWSBI knockoffs

A Lamy knockoff with a naginata nib

Aaaand maybe a knockoff of a knockoff of a TWSBI?

 

 

 

Very GREEN!

[Misfit]

2 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

I think you are correct, this pen screams @misfit. It has 3 stub nibs.

Three… stub…nibs… three. 😍

[amberleadavis]

59 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Three… stub…nibs… three. 😍

 

Hmm.. It may be a fine italic, a broad italic and medium stub.  BUT THREE expressive writers.

[RedPie]

Nice collection of green! @SLinkster The FanMu is my favorite! 😀

 

[amberleadavis]

 

This one was in my collection but now lives with @webgeckos. Check out the green imprint on the top.

[amberleadavis]

 

 

The M800 and K800.

[Mercian]

Ok, first my pens that are undeniably green, then my pens that are green-ish.

 

Green Pelikan pens (& pencil):

 

Top-to-bottom they are:

M800 from 1990/91;

 

400 from 1954;

 

450 pencil from 1954.

 

 

Detail of my Pelikans:

 

 

 

The M800 has an 18k ‘M’ nib with the ‘Eagle’s head’ French assay stamp for 18k gold, and the Swiss(?) ‘PF’ stamp too;

The 400 has a ‘script’ nib (i.e. not a nib that has the Pelikan logo on it), marked ‘F’. It has a beautifully-crisp italic grind, that is very similar to that on my modern Pilot Plumix ‘F’ ‘calligraphy’ nib. But it also has a bit of flex to it.
I loves it!

 

The 450 pencil - to my surprise - takes 0.9mm calibre leads. I had thought that the early 450s all took 1.18mm calibre leads. This is why I am confident that my 400 dates to 1954, and not to late 1953.

It is a really well-made pencil, and has a really nice feature/function that tells you when the lead that you’re currently using is almost used-up.

 

Now my green-ish pens:

 

They are:

my Parker “51” aerometric in ‘Navy Grey’ - which is far more green than is the paint used on His Majesty’s Ships!

This pen is from Q3 of 1954;

 

my 2017 LE Lamy Safari in ‘Petrol’;

 

my 2023 LE Lamy Al-Star in ‘Petrol’.

 

Under the fluorescent lighting in my kitchen, the anodised finish on the Al-Star seems to be a markedly-different colour to the textured matte plastic of the Safari, but if one views them in actual sunlight*, their colours are, unsurprisingly, very similar.

 

* I live in the midlands of England. Your actual sunlight  is not expected to arrive here again until March, at the earliest.

[Misfit]

@Mercian your collection of green Pelikans is awesome. Some pens lean green, and should be included here. The more the merrier in the Green Pen Club. 

[Mercian]

4 minutes ago, Misfit said:

@Mercian your collection of green Pelikans is awesome.

Aw, gee, shucks… 

(I’m English - compliments make us feel embarrassed and awkward )

 

Thank you! 
 

ETA: and of course Amber’s green Pelikans, in the post directly above mine, are more impressive!

[Misfit]

@Mercian that’s sweet. It’s nice seeing the mechanical pencil. Do you use it much?

 

I have a Pelikan brown tortoise that dates to 1954.