What pen are you waiting for in the mail?

[distaffcreations]

While waiting for a lovely YongSheng 016 silver wintersweet, I "accidentally" bid on some vintage pens on ebay. That lot of 4 pens in need of restoration will arrive well before the Chinese pen, which is apparently taking the slow boat.

 

The "vintage" pens are a mystery. One is lapis lazuli colored, another is a combo pencil/fountain pen in an amethyst color, the third is beige and the last one looks like a partial desk pen with a white handle and a silver nib holder. I am hopeful the helpful pen lovers here will help me sort things out once they arrive.

 

Ebay is rightfully dubbed "Evil-bay". I really don't need another hobby. ;-) Pen restoration here I come!

 

My pens arrived a while ago, but I am just now getting around to posting pictures. I have learned much from the purchase; terrible pictures on Ebay will result in surprises when the actual item arrives.

 

Blue pen is an Onward that is sparkly and blue and pitted, also has a broken tine on the nib.

Purple/amethyst pen is actually a burgundy Welsharp combo pen and is the best of the lot although the nib needs some smoothing. It tends to catch on paper and pull fibers off. I had fun replacing the sac though.

 

The beige pen is a Penman syringe type, and I now have a sorry tale of ruining a pen while trying to disassemble it for cleaning an restoration.

 

The last is a mother of pearl taper nib holder. The gold finish polished up nicely, but I had no nibs for it until I went to the Triangle Pen show back and scored some lovely off-set #4 nibs.

[Eduardo]

Parker Latitude Stainless Steel CT

[masterfisto]

Waiting on a Mabie Todd Swan. I believe it to be a model 6161 based on pictures. Coming over the pond from the UK.

[VOKEY]

Waiting on a matte black LAMY D3 and two Kawecos AL sport. One silver, one black. They should be here today. I'll post pics

[TeaHive]

I'm waiting on a Noodler's Ahab in Piquot, and a glass dip pen! Pretty excited about the pair of them. ^_^

[napalm]

[...] glass dip pen! Pretty excited ... ^_^

 

Schonherr Luther? I can't think of any other that could generate so much excitement

[Darcy1978]

A Parson's Essential with medium stub

Visconti 3-nib Calligraphy Set

 

Conway Stewart 286

I have been enabled.

 

[tinysnail]

I'm a little embarrassed of how crazy I went the other day, but here's what's in the mail for me:

 

Parker 51

Noodler's Nib Creaper (clear; love my lapis inferno one but wanted a clear one too)

Jinhao X750 Shimmering Sands

Pilot Metropolitan Silver Plain, F nib (I have two Ms but want a finer nib. May give one of the Ms to one of my sisters!)

Lamy Al-Star Blue-Green, EF nib

Platinum 3776 Century Nice, F nib

[NomadSteve]

Two on the way this week. Finally taking the plunge on the Lamy 2000 (fine) and the Pilot Vanishing Point (matte black, also fine). I feel like I'm really "part of the club" now that I've got these two classic stalwarts in my collection.

 

Oh, and some Tomoe River paper, too - my first.

[Ceelo]

Parker 51 in burgundy, my first one. Excited!

[Bigeddie]

NOS silver plated Parker 180, I've always wanted a 180.

[DaveBj]

A TWSBI Classic (1.1 stub, my first piston filler) and a Preppy fine point to keep clipped in my notebook.

[migo984]

NOS silver plated Parker 180, I've always wanted a 180.

Funnily enough I was looking at those the other day. Those nibs are a bit scary aren't they! :-)

[TeaHive]

 

Schonherr Luther? I can't think of any other that could generate so much excitement

 

Just a plain ol' glass pen I found on eBay, with a muted violet kind of color. I'm more excited by the fact that I'm finally getting a glass dip pen with a long handle. I have a Rubinato one already, but it's quite short and not good for long journaling sessions.

[TeaHive]

I'm a little embarrassed of how crazy I went the other day, but here's what's in the mail for me:

 

Parker 51

Noodler's Nib Creaper (clear; love my lapis inferno one but wanted a clear one too)

Jinhao X750 Shimmering Sands

Pilot Metropolitan Silver Plain, F nib (I have two Ms but want a finer nib. May give one of the Ms to one of my sisters!)

Lamy Al-Star Blue-Green, EF nib

Platinum 3776 Century Nice, F nib

 

Quite the purchase!! Enjoy the blue-green Lamy! I have it in EF as well, and it's my everyday pen now! So buttery smooooooth..

[Icywolfe]

The Justus 95. USPS is sure being slow to update. But now my life is nearly complete just need to buy the Falcon in the future.

[Feathers]

Eagerly (impatiently LOL) waiting for a Visconti Venus (rose coloured, with a medium Dreamtouch nib) to arrive. I haven't tried their Dreamtouch nibs before, so I'm very excited! I had hoped it would arrive today, but alas, no postman has arrived. Maybe Monday will be the day

[tinysnail]

 

Quite the purchase!! Enjoy the blue-green Lamy! I have it in EF as well, and it's my everyday pen now! So buttery smooooooth..

My excuse is that I am new to FPs so NEED to try everythinggggg, hehee. That's so good to know! I am LOVING my other Lamy nibs so far so I expect to be happy with the EF as well

[j1020]

A Conway Stewart Excalibre Ltd. Edition lever fill with medium nib. Ordered it yesterday directly from CS. They said about 2 weeks delivery via British Post. Comes with wooden presentation box, a Churchill cigar (!), a book of quotes and a bottle of CS ink. Limited to 100 pens.

[LisaN]

Sigh.

Kaweco AL Sport in anodized silver with a fine nib.

Goulet dropped the price on them again, so I bit.

Darnit, Brian!!!