What pen are you waiting for in the mail?

[Avalonia]

A Lamy Safari, F nib! It's yellow. I think.

[Fabienne]

My brown Parker Vacumatic with a flexible nib. I think it is going to go right off to OldGriz as soon as it comes in though. It needs a bit of freshening up. But I am very excited about it. One of my first vintage pens. I am not sure how flexy the nib is but we shall see. It was advertised as flexible though.

[MaikeruS]

My very first TWSBI 540, the ROC 100 edition, with a bottle of Vert Empire, all from the Goulets'.

[robofkent]

I am waiting for

 

1 x Pelikan Pura (silver with B nib)

1 x Noodler's Ahab (yellow) already have the demonstrator version

1 x Osmiroid 65 (blue with M nib) picked up cheaply on e-bay

1 x Lamy Sudio (matt blue with B nib)

2 x Sheaffer Imperial II Deluxe (blue with F nib) NOS on e-bay from a USA seller

1 x Sheaffer Triumph Imperial (navy with M nib)

1 x Waterman Graduate

3 x Bulow version of the Jinhao 159 with German nibs in M, F and B!

 

Oh dear.................... :embarrassed_smile:

Edited March 17, 2012 by robofkent

[Federer]

Waiting for a custom Pendleton butter-smooth stub on a Pelikan M215 lozenge can't wait!

 

And a Serwex piston-filler from fountainpenrevolution.com!

[MaikeruS]

I am waiting for

 

1 x Pelikan Pura (silver with B nib)

1 x Noodler's Ahab (yellow) already have the demonstrator version

1 x Osmiroid 65 (blue with M nib) picked up cheaply on e-bay

1 x Lamy Sudio (matt blue with B nib)

2 x Sheaffer Imperial II Deluxe (blue with F nib) NOS on e-bay from a USA seller

1 x Sheaffer Triumph Imperial (navy with M nib)

1 x Waterman Graduate

3 x Bulow version of the Jinhao 159 with German nibs in M, F and B!

 

Oh dear.................... :embarrassed_smile:

 

Good Lord, that's one impressive load of pens. Are there any bulk buying discounts for purchases like that?

 

 

 

[pokermind]

1 - Sheaffer Agio, Tranquil Yellow

 

1 - Sheaffer described as "White Dot Silvertone Fountain Pen"

but I suspect it's really a Sheaffer 444-0 (Triumph Imperial brushed chrome)

 

1 - Lot of 6 that contains a Waterman Phileas which made the whole purchase worthwhile.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/180838943414?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

[robofkent]

I am waiting for

 

1 x Pelikan Pura (silver with B nib)

1 x Noodler's Ahab (yellow) already have the demonstrator version

1 x Osmiroid 65 (blue with M nib) picked up cheaply on e-bay

1 x Lamy Sudio (matt blue with B nib)

2 x Sheaffer Imperial II Deluxe (blue with F nib) NOS on e-bay from a USA seller

1 x Sheaffer Triumph Imperial (navy with M nib)

1 x Waterman Graduate

3 x Bulow version of the Jinhao 159 with German nibs in M, F and B!

 

Oh dear.................... :embarrassed_smile:

 

Good Lord, that's one impressive load of pens. Are there any bulk buying discounts for purchases like that?

 

Sadly not, that's probably why I will be living on baked beans for the rest of the month :roflmho:

[tijntje]

1. TWSBI 540, should hopefully arrive this week

2. German piston filler "Clipper"

3. Pelikan MK20

 

Now I'm in doubt whether or not to shell out 65 euros, $85, for a NOS Rotring 700 ballpen/fountain pen set...

[paolino_paperino]

Sheaffer green striped pencil, to go together with a FP.

I'm trying hard not to buy anything else...

[XiaoMG]

Sailor Professional Gear Slim (black/rhodium) and three Pilot 78Gs.

 

These are likely going to be my last pens for a while, so I'm looking forward to them. I also have a new nib for my Edison on the way, as a last-ditch attempt to get some satisfaction out of that pen. Bunch of ink samples too, but I suspect I'll be trimming everything down pretty soon.

[mcnoodle]

A Pelikan and a Nakaya. Enough said.

[mcnoodle]

1. TWSBI 540, should hopefully arrive this week

2. German piston filler "Clipper"

3. Pelikan MK20

 

So you snapped up one of those, did you? I thought about it for too long and missed out.

 

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Edited March 18, 2012 by mcnoodle

[Bo Bo Olson]

This is a 790 from the late '50's...after the red emblem was taken off the cap ring (@'55-56). The three cap rings are each separate and different from the later 790. The dome is much more late '40's early '50s influence.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/BoBoOlson/img8418e.jpg

 

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/BoBoOlson/img8414j.jpg

 

This is a 790 from the early to mid '60's.

The three cap jewel 'rings' are one with three levels. There is also a Geha 5xx with with two rings more the Pelikan 140 competition and the school pen has but one; it was the Pelikan 120 competition.

 

The later 790 dome is much smaller...more 'modern'...even though it was a tad old fashioned compared to Soennecken and MB and a few others.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/BoBoOlson/B6FmHUwBWkKGrHqEOKiMEyVVGG6IBMwIK6RCg_12-1.jpg

 

I'd never expected to chase 'minor' model changes. :embarrassed_smile:

 

tijntje what color 'Clipper' did you get?

I have a rose and black and a blue and black stripped ones.

Edited March 18, 2012 by Bo Bo Olson

[tijntje]

1. TWSBI 540, should hopefully arrive this week

2. German piston filler "Clipper"

3. Pelikan MK20

 

So you snapped up one of those, did you? I thought about it for too long and missed out.

 

Well, this one came from a local auction site...

 

 

tijntje what color 'Clipper' did you get?

I have a rose and black and a blue and black stripped ones.

 

Before bidding, I looked for posts here about Clipper pens and admired your pens. The one I bought is I think plain red with a blue ink window, probably a cheap school pen? It hasn't arrived yet, I expect it any day now, I will post pictures!

 

 

 

[tijntje]

Oh, also, I just won this Lamy 27 for cheap. In fact, shipping amounts to half of what I paid for the pen. No idea about the interior condition but it looks sweet.

http://www.antikloge.de/yasmin2/IMG_5196.JPG

[Bo Bo Olson]

tijntje, There were two on US Ebay, a blue and black ($125)** and a Honey/tortoise (don't know the exact end price...think it was @$85.)

 

**Some one I know almost got a real good deal from me...with the 'old' price.

 

Look for a three tailed 'Clipper' on the nib, and I hope like mine, yours is semi-flex.

 

Non Sheaffer.... I'd only seen the stripped piston Clippers.

Then again I don't spend enough time looking for variants.

Edited March 19, 2012 by Bo Bo Olson

[empyrean]

Got a Bexley BX802 onyx on its way! I think its a beautiful pen...and of course, here i go again buying another pen!!! :roflmho:

Didn't I say I was not going to buy more pens???? :hmm1:

Watched an episode of Big Bang Theory where Penney is addicted to video games...very funny...but wait!! step back from the computer....it could just as well be a fountain pen addiction!!!

[tijntje]

I will post pictures!

 

So the 'Clipper' arrived. It looks nothing like the pictures of other German Clipper pens I saw. It has the look and feel of a school pen. The nib has nothing on it, it's semi-hooded, the back screws off to expose the piston mechanism. The cap feels more substantial than the light weight plastic, which says more about the plastic than about the cap ;-).

It's a normal size pen. It's in quite good condition.

 

 

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I don't expect a hooded or semi-hooded nib to have semi-flex.

(I have read that here were rare P-51's with semi-flex nibs.)

 

I was wrong about a spade nib, in I have a 'gold' colored Reform spade nib that is semi-flex.

In that I'd never read of any one saying...my semi-flex spade nib, I'd not thought there were any.

 

Take a regular flex nib press it against your thumb nail until the tines separate. Try then your 'Clipper', to see if it is regular flex, nail or semi-flex.

 

It would be hard to put the 'Clipper' on a small nib.