Should I use it or wait until the time comes

[Adnan Alp Konuralp]

Hello dear fellow FP enthusiasts, I am 21 year old student from Turkey. I always loved pens and I've been using my Lamy Safari since midschool.Later my collection expanded as I found out my late grandfather's collection and my rotation reaches my daily needs.

 

A friend of my mother gifted to me her husband's new and untouched fountain pens 1 month ago which are included Aurora Ipsilon B 13-T and Pelikan M1000 Souveraen.

 

I have not used this pens since I don't know If should I use it or wait until Igot older and use them in my working years.Because right know I use only my pens during language lessons not in my studies. My biggest concern is how durable is the gold nibs are and I'm not familiar with them.In general every pen is durable I know but this pens are something out of world and pretty expensive for me.

 

What would you,would you use them know or let it pass until right time comes? 

 

Thanks in advance 

[OCArt]

  Wow, what an incredible gift. I would certainly put them into service and enjoy them but perhaps limit their use to only at home-- that's actually what I tend to do with most of my high-end pens. But then I'm always at home as an old retired guy

[mhguda]

Hello, you do not give a reason for the gift, but I think we are not wrong in assuming this is special, right? So, I would concur with OCArt and suggest you use the pens, but at home where there is less risk of them getting lost... still, fountain pens to my mind are best enjoyed when using them, this counts especially when they are significant gifts...

BTW you may not have to worry about the gold nibs' durability - they are most likely tipped with a hard metal to protect the relatively soft gold from wear.

Enjoy the pens in good health.

[lamarax]

 

...right away! (with ❤️ from your neighbor)

[Penguincollector]

    Use them, like others have said, take great care in where and how you use them, but that’s what they’re for. I loved using my better pens  in school, it made researching and note taking so much more enjoyable. Take your Safari to class, and enjoy that wonderful M1000 nib ( and your other pens) at your leisure. My uni pens were all gold nibs except for a few Parkers. I still have them and use them regularly decades later. 

[Adnan Alp Konuralp]

  On 4/3/2025 at 10:28 PM, lamarax said:

 

...right away! (with ❤️ from your neighbor)

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I will use them then ,thank you neighbor❤️

[Adnan Alp Konuralp]

  On 4/3/2025 at 3:53 PM, OCArt said:

  Wow, what an incredible gift. I would certainly put them into service and enjoy them but perhaps limit their use to only at home-- that's actually what I tend to do with most of my high-end pens. But then I'm always at home as an old retired guy

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Only use at home is great advice thank you Sir, less anxiety hahaha

[Adnan Alp Konuralp]

  On 4/3/2025 at 9:58 PM, mhguda said:

Hello, you do not give a reason for the gift, but I think we are not wrong in assuming this is special, right? So, I would concur with OCArt and suggest you use the pens, but at home where there is less risk of them getting lost... still, fountain pens to my mind are best enjoyed when using them, this counts especially when they are significant gifts...

BTW you may not have to worry about the gold nibs' durability - they are most likely tipped with a hard metal to protect the relatively soft gold from wear.

Enjoy the pens in good health.

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Thank you and for your clarification on gold nibs, I  really appreciate it❤️

[Adnan Alp Konuralp]

  On 4/4/2025 at 3:31 AM, Penguincollector said:

    Use them, like others have said, take great care in where and how you use them, but that’s what they’re for. I loved using my better pens  in school, it made researching and note taking so much more enjoyable. Take your Safari to class, and enjoy that wonderful M1000 nib ( and your other pens) at your leisure. My uni pens were all gold nibs except for a few Parkers. I still have them and use them regularly decades later. 

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It's amazing to hear.They are more durable than I expected then.Thank you

[InkReservoir]

That’s an amazing gift! I might differ from others and say that you should absolutely use them, they’re tools to accomplish a goal and also a work of art at the same time! 
 

There’s no greater way to honour the artistry than by using it! 
 

I wish you many happy uses out of them!  

[inkstainedruth]

@Adnan Alp Konuralp Not to mention honoring your grandfather!  

I lost my grandfather's pen/pencll combo as a child after finding it after he died on my dad's dresser -- have no idea what brand it was, but was fascinated with it because (a) it was blue; and (b) it had been his.  Which my mother could not understand at ALL -- my parents both grew up during the Depression, and probably couldn't have afforded a decent pen and only had 3rd-tier junkers.

But I agree with what other people have said -- use the pen at home (at least for the time being) -- I once made the mistake of bringing my M405 Stresemann with me on a camping trip (!) and went to dig through my basket to show the pen to someone and couldn't find it (and it's the most expensive pen I own by FAR -- even with saving money from buying it from Rolf Thiel on eBay).  I was less worried about it developing "feet" than I was of someone with a fully loaded pickup truck hauling a fully loaded trailer running over it, since a lot of the "roads" through the campground aren't paved (and some aren't even dirt roads -- just the grassy spaces between campsites). 

I got EXTREMELY lucky in that someone had apparently found the pen and turned it into the Lost and Found station.  But after that experience?  That pen doesn't leave the house.

Ditto for a couple of vintage Morrison ringtops with metal overlays on them -- the sterling overlay one wasn't cheap, and my first one (which has a LOVELY semi-flex stub nib on it) got the nickname of "Trixie" because it has a really bad habit of unscrewing itself from the cap while on the lanyard I made for it.... 

Of course, I'm also the person who got upset when a couple of Parker Vectors went walkabout.  My first one turned up after a year in a desk drawer -- when I was looking for something else -- but the "Aztec Yellow" one and the light green one have never  turned up....  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

The tipping is called 'iridium' but that hasn't been used since the 1920's and before. Instead, various rare earth's compounds are used that are very hard.

 

If you wrote 8 hours a day for a decade, there might be some wear of your tipping.

Back in the day of One Man, One Pen, and an 8 hour writing day....folks bought a new fountain pen every decade...partially to be up in fashion, and not be using an old-fashioned pen.

 

Status is, was, and will always be.

 

[Misfit]

Yes to using the pens at home. Don’t take them to school. Over on Reddit, I’ve read posts on students whose pens go missing.