“Silver” and “Gold” Pen Club

[Penguincollector]

13 hours ago, Baka1969 said:

I think one of my best balanced pens is my vintage Parker 51. It posts amazingly and feels great in the hand. I can see why it was so popular in its heyday. 

  I call these “my Cadillacs of pens” because they are the smoothest ride. Perfectly balanced, even in my weird grip, no fuss, fiil and write. 

[Tashi_Tsering]

Montegrappa Amerigo Vespucci. 

 

I like the tarnish of silver, so I don't polish my silver pens.

[Penguincollector]

3 minutes ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

I'm not sure, but I think it's green agate. But definitely not an emerald.

  Green agates are beautiful, and rather underrated. The whole pen is a delight to the eye. 

[Penguincollector]

1 minute ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

Montegrappa Amerigo Vespucci. 

 

I like the tarnish of silver, so I don't polish my silver pens.

  I think the tarnish suits this one in particular. The scrollwork on the clip is sublime. I love the stripes, so nautical. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

2 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

Actually..Baka said this...""I think one of my best balanced pens is my vintage Parker 51. It posts amazingly and feels great in the hand. I can see why it was so popular in its heyday. 

I like the great balance of a medium-large P-51 also.

 

The medium-large Pelikan 600 has great balance and it a tad thicker than most standard width ..medium-small, standard or medium large pens.

[Bo Bo Olson]

2 hours ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

I like the tarnish of silver,

I seldom polish my silver P-75 and it will return to gun metal silver soon enough when I do. Finger oil...keeps it nice...when let too long, it does tarnish.

I don't like polishing silver pens one the whole in when polished someone might ask is it Chrome?

 

I have two barley corn silver overlay pens that needs repair. Pictures left on Moneybucket........but this theme reminds me to put them up for repair.....as soon as the Eagle lands a few times.

[inkstainedruth]

21 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 Oh wow. The Cartier display at my jeweler’s shop was the “look but don’t touch” section for young Penguin. I wanted the Trinity and the Pasha and a tiara so badly.

Yeah, I remember one time when I was in college and had gone museum hopping in NYC for the day.  Taking the bus back downtown to the train station and we went past some high end jewelers that had this MAGNIFICENT diamond and emerald necklace in the window....  I don't even want to know how many figures that would have cost (and that was in the late 1970s or early 1980s...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Checklist]

21 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 I would love to see pictures, even if it’s found a new home. 

 

 

 

Ask, and you shall receive.

[Penguincollector]

1 hour ago, Checklist said:

 

 

 

Ask, and you shall receive.

  Oh, that is a sexy pen. I rarely use that as an adjective, but wow.  I had a couple of opportunities to buy brown ones, but passed on them and now I have regrets.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Great! As mentioned I got one of those to me, unknown pens this month. The nib on mine needed a bit of burnishing to become straight.

 

No marking to the underside of the feed, but eye balled to a M. That is to me an early double ball nib, so ball point users could use it with out changing to a fountain pen hold.

My P-15 is an F...eyeballed, but marked a 4.

 

Suddenly with in six months I tripled my amount of Parkers ,so now have a Parker 'collection' of some 8-9 pens.

 

I sent off a red '38 stripped Vac, '36 Canadian made  nail for repair to Francis and it came back a semi-nail.

That's the third pen of mine he's improved the flex rate by setting the feed and nib properly. It had sat around for ever and ever, until it's number come up with my sending to Francis for a new sac.

I have good shading Lamy Crystal Agate, a nice medium light gray....but is the dryest ink I've ever had. One drop of glycerine improves that ....NOT TWO DROPS. I had luckily a second bottle and a old MB shoe so that worked out.

[Penguincollector]

I’m convinced that Francis is a wizard, @Bo Bo Olson.

[Bo Bo Olson]

He is.

He was involved in the development of the Conid Fountain pen, and was their first nibmeister. so understands fountain pens and their nibs.

Eventually he got old enough to retire, and became a fine repairman.

 

He is a bit OCD in his repair, as all good repair men are. Take a look at what my MB Safety pen looked like before and after.

There are only a few other topflight repairmen in Europe.

Or nibmisters, I've only wanted one simple thing done one BB 605 Pelikan, but trust he can do the rest.

 

In the beginning between the both of us, I got much better and more repair than I was charged. Now knowing his skill,  trust what ever it will cost as fair.  After all having some 15-20 pens worked on does develop a trust factor between the both of us. It is not really a one way street.

 

Only got @15 to go...so no new pens next year unless a grail.

 

This pen, I really should have taken some before pictures, a real beater. A throw in, in a live auction lot, that I said to my self, the maxi-semi-flex nib is worth saving on that ratty beater. 

'48-60 medium large, crooked cap...lacking the three cap rings.

I told him two simple brass rings would be ok...If not. I'd send him a large '90's 146 to put the maxi-semi-flex nib on. I don't know if he found the rings or made them himself. I trust his skill to have done so.

 

That had once been a beater, dull crooked, missing the cap rings. Maxi-semi-flex nib of that era. Besides the very great balance of a slightly thick, medium-large pen....such a nib.

What came back was indeed a wonder. It will be one of the last 15 to get rid of...a more than to flight pen.

[Penguincollector]

37 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

He is.

He was involved in the development of the Conid Fountain pen, and was their first nibmeister. so understands fountain pens and their nibs.

Eventually he got old enough to retire, and became a fine repairman.

 

He is a bit OCD in his repair, as all good repair men are. Take a look at what my MB Safety pen looked like before and after.

There are only a few other topflight repairmen in Europe.

Or nibmisters, I've only wanted one simple thing done one BB 605 Pelikan, but trust he can do the rest.

 

In the beginning between the both of us, I got much better and more repair than I was charged. Now knowing his skill,  trust what ever it will cost as fair.  After all having some 15-20 pens worked on does develop a trust factor between the both of us. It is not really a one way street.

 

Only got @15 to go...so no new pens next year unless a grail.

 

 Those bona fides, what a treasure you found in him. 

[Tashi_Tsering]

Breguet Classique. 

 

 

 

 

[Tashi_Tsering]

Porsche Design Tec Flex P`3110 (made by Pelikan)

 

 

[RedPie]

23 hours ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

Montegrappa Amerigo Vespucci. 

 

I like the tarnish of silver, so I don't polish my silver pens.

You have a lot of very nice pens. This Montegrappa is just great. Congratulations! 

[Penguincollector]

10 hours ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

Breguet Classique. 

 

 

 

 

  This pen looks Ready to Work, and the black details and the clip really pull it together. It somehow reminds me of trains. It’s really cool! 
 

29 minutes ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

Porsche Design Tec Flex P`3110 (made by Pelikan)

 

 

Basketweave! 🩶🩶🩶 It somehow looks like it’s in motion.

[Tashi_Tsering]

26 minutes ago, RedPie said:

You have a lot of very nice pens. This Montegrappa is just great. Congratulations! 

Thank you!
 

Actually, I'm not the biggest fan of Montegrappa, some of their pens are "too much" for me. I prefer more classic pens like regular Montblanc.

[Tashi_Tsering]

12 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

This pen looks Ready to Work, and the black details and the clip really pull it together. It somehow reminds me of trains. It’s really cool! 

Sorry, the photo is not very good - the parts are not black, but blue with a slight sparkling (I think, they made from celluloid). 

[Penguincollector]

Just now, Tashi_Tsering said:

Sorry, the photo is not very good - the parts are not black, but blue with a slight sparkling (I think, they made from celluloid). 

  That makes it even better! I love celluloid, and blue is my favorite color 💙