What Pelikan Are You Writing With Today? (2024 Edition)

[USG]

On 8/10/2024 at 11:36 AM, Bo Bo Olson said:

I like the  standard sized 200/400, & in vintage best and my medium-large 605. They all have great balance. I do like the slightly wider girth of a 600.

It took me over a year to decide the medium-long 400nn had better balance than the 400.

 

If I had the money I'd probably have more 600's...I really want The Grand Place....but it has never gone down in price, only up.

I do have a standard sized W.Germany 600, but that is a real fancied up 400 it don't count.

 

@Bo Bo Olson

 

You mean this one, right?  The 2006 M620 Grand Place.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

YES!!!!! 620...The more I looked at that series, the more I liked pens that I didn't like the first.

I have a 400's semi-flex B that would go right on it.

[Wil D]

Pelikano UP

[Mercian]

20 hours ago, N1003U said:

 

https://thepelikansperch.com/2018/10/14/pelikan-m620-city-series/

 

See the second entry for 2006.

Thank you for that 😊

 

I had completely forgotten about that series of M620s, remembering only those M620s named for cities 

If my incipient senescence continues to advance at this rate, I shall need to send myself off to the Knacker’s Yard 😔

[OCArt]

I was just writing a letter with a Montblanc 342 pen from the 1950's. It has an OBB nib and gives just a wonderful writing experience. I had it loaded with Iroshizuku green ink, a mix of Chiku-rin and Shin-ryoku that provided a lovely verdant summer color.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Those 2xx, 3xx can be so forgotten. Some are semi-flex. And so very well balanced. I came ever so late to them. And they are affordable.

Wonderful second and third tier pens, and I have no idea why my semi-flex nimble and lively 32 is third tier.

 

Also  won a MB 14....nothing else no 14x. F-EF, semi-flex so I don't have to chase a 144, I was thinking of chasing for it's balance. I was looking for something lesser than a medium-large 1948-59... 146... And lucked out with a 264, 32 and that 14 in a live auctions.

In a year or so I ended up with 5 or so MB's with grand balance, and nibs. And I had my 234 1/2 from the second live auction, when I ever so noobie was chasing a 400nn. I was so noobie I didn't know what a older MB looked like, knowing only the cigar shaped ones.

 

[Wil D]

Pelikano UP

[Bo Bo Olson]

Now in my Pelikan two pen stand, A 605 B stub, and a 200 LE amethyst B. 

They have been in the pen cups for quite a while.

 

A lot of pens have just run out ink during a paper test, that I just retired one of my three active pen cups. Aiming for 7 pens inked so I can use up more ink. I did reach that once....a good two years ago. I use to have a normal 17 pens inked and it was so hard to get down to 7....as it will this time. 

Only 19 pens inked...a big drop from  over 30.....

 

The BS in the background is notes for the western saga I'm writing.

And two pen folks whose names I use often and misspell.

 

[RedPie]

Café Crème...

[Cjtamu]

3 hours ago, RedPie said:

Café Crème...

Such a nice looking pen.

[RedPie]

33 minutes ago, Cjtamu said:

Such a nice looking pen.

Thank you!

 

[inkstainedruth]

I think the Café Crème is one of the most attractive colors they ever did for the M200 line.  So many of them are translucent and I just don't like the looks of them -- but the Café Crème is just really a nice design.  I got lucky on the 3rd one (after having lost the first one -- and another pen and the case they were in) on a car trip down south ).  And then lucked into a used one on eBay where the seller said it had a "wide" nib -- which turned out to be an italic nib and a firehose even by PELIKAN standards of "wet" and then had to trail around a pen show trying first to have nib work on it (and failing) and then managed to find a replacement B nib unit.  And then lost THAT pen.   And then lucked into "Trey" last fall -- for a LOT more than the original price of that model  -- and it does NOT leave the house now....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

I wish I'd liked that pen when I could have gotten it, but I thought my inky fingers would have stained it.

By the way, that's a beautiful picture .

[RedPie]

19 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I thought my inky fingers would have stained it.

The ink washes off easily. At least for me. 

[adyf]

Discontinued M625 in blue with sterling silver cap and piston knob.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A picture would be nice, so I can compare it to my 500.

 

I have a rolled gold cap, piston cover '51-54, Pelikan 500,  OBBB, 30 degree grind, maxi-semi-flex signature pen. Someone's better picture than mine.

My picture.

[Bo Bo Olson]

200 Amethyst B, is now in the ever growing dirty pens cups. Joins the 605 stubbed B, that also just died.

Out of the inked pen cups is a '50-54 Pelikan 400 OB, with Diamine Arctic Blue glitter/shimmer ink. One that shimmered well when filled from the top of the bottle.

Now up, a 215 with  long diamond lozenges....It is an M nib, which I've lerned to like very much. And has the shading ink Octupus Carmell.

Down to 16 pens inked....from over thirty to 16 happened inside a week....so many pens with just drops of ink in them.

[Andy1883]

A 1989 M600.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Springy regular flex, Blue Swirl '90's 200 M, just got loaded with MB Toffee, original bottle from 2013 or so, just after it came out at wasn't 'only' at the time; it was expensive  at €13.....Now I'd have to mortgage the house at the gouging €23.

An ink I always liked, so I don't understand how come I still have 2/3s of the bottle.

[Runnin_Ute]

Mostly the M400 White Tortoise (B) today. It's inked with Edelstein Olivine