Of academic interest only...or possibly not?

[Christopher Godfrey]

I never knew there had been demonstrator models back in 400NN days: anyone else?  See below: 

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166948656358?_nkw=pelikan+demonstrator+fountain+pen&itmmeta=01J7AQGC88PK3229GZ1KPBSRE7&hash=item26deea54e6:g:NKcAAOSw3lFm1OFt&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAABAHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKnnYxOfCCI%2BVYxWUUCAY8RQNVrboY2drsuSv1MtT6RCslH2ykkML3zHwj0hkuJdk%2FoyslPww4GCbsGv74BIL%2BYkfHwPbuT0r38Gqkzi0NtOESxjDum4IwqdqfOHXDuFpPo0lpphbef9IcVRtRaxzU4qQjTNLAiBPKnYoUNHyuR0enzn1KNgBCeCwHNWJSdcSLx1BWgAyYtnT%2Bdvv8OzI8o%2BIguEdY%2Fc%2BD%2BRkjEHDCUBrBjYJn32INKdyRytr9WbdFWRTb2yaECsfiAP66ZetPcBXmdSspeu7Rn3pCd9PDH%2FHYlaYSq6tB0gQPARWZ0sUMc%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5rEwde6ZA

 

And as for <this>: is it perhaps the most expensive Pelikan ever?

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226181032908?_nkw=pelikan+bee+makie+fountain+pen&itmmeta=01J7AQWA8DXZDJD5EH52DAR0MH&hash=item34a970abcc:g:lG0AAOSw8yVmYjIP&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKlmYEfekFzLDmGL%2Foc10iUekwIIY9ORNpugYNH%2BpysspY7mO4c7V0khHoUcGrrqY%2BF3zV19qdCvCidPt%2F%2BRAFoTkosWLGiLrofyGGSePU%2Bamq5G7wENnVj9ZTPTfTzvetfP7Va%2FCJhSD9uHGgFJJ%2BLEHm1jl1J4C6FA6XeaPu2uVIqoyFUZUjCd00Me%2B4aZzi2gR1EyCNQRv3QKJLj7%2F8b251bBB1fHRBgmRfZozdW1PBdLRqKH4EKoc8vLSyK9Q7wc4p1kF4%2FDhOTIUsWuy8nH|tkp%3ABk9SR6qk8de6ZA

 

I was just browsing: honestly!

[usk15]

But you are not buying a pen, you are buying an art piece.

[Misfit]

My jaw dropped on that second listing. 

[inkstainedruth]

Heck, my jaw dropped on the FIRST listing....  
My two most expensive pens are the M405 Stresemann and M405 Blue Black -- and I SAVED a bit of money by getting them from Rolf Thiel's eBay store (so he didn't have to charge me VAT and I didn't have to pay the US distributor markup; plus back then, eBay did not collect sales tax.  And the cost of BOTH of those pens TOGETHER was a *fraction* of what the seller of that demonstrator is asking.... 

As for the other listing, the maki-e pen?  It's definitely a work of art -- BUT (and that's a heavy "but").... It costs more than my parents paid for the house I grew up in, back in the late 1960s....  And they bought it with savings and the money they got for our old house.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mulrich]

I hadn’t seen the honey bee pelikan before; it’s a looker. 
 

Too bad it uses a stock M1000 nib otherwise I’d totally buy it . Not really but still bizarre to put that much into a pen and not do something special with the nib. It’s like buying a Rolls Royce with a Honda engine. 

[Mercian]

I was sooo just about to order that Classic Pens M1000, but I too was put off by its nib - a ‘BB’ nib on an M1000?

 

My scrawl is cramped and tiny - and that nib is tantamount to putting a paintbrush on to a firehose!

So, I guess that I can now let that £46,000 (allowing for UK VAT + Import Duty) in ‘loose change’ settle back down into the depths of my sofa, eh?

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 9/9/2024 at 7:13 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Heck, my jaw dropped on the FIRST listing....  

Then I need a secretary to carry that second one around behind me on a silk cushion, when I buy my 301 foot yacht. 

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

I saw a MB Brandenberg for €16,000 and some small change in real life.

[Christopher Godfrey]

Oh, heck: I have just re-visited my original post and with regard to the first pen, look: it doesn't even sport a gold nib!  What?  A steel nib for that sort of moolah?  🙄

[mulrich]

6 hours ago, Christopher Godfrey said:

it doesn't even sport a gold nib!  What?  A steel nib for that sort of moolah?  

Well that does it, now I'm definitely not buying it

[Bo Bo Olson]

The real problem is finding the second fool, so we can have a bidding war!

[stephanos]

Hilarious!

The honeybee pen is rather pretty, though.