Tibaldi Celluloid Overload

[Vicary]

I received a pen last week, another Bexley Owner's Club prototype in the ivory/blue Tibaldi celluloid. That prompted me to line up all the Tibaldi celluloid pens I have a snap some pics. Enjoy! There are sixteen total. Here they are:

 

 

Here they are by color:

 

There's the Modello 60, FPH's Etruria LE the Columbia, and Bexley Owner's Club style pen, which is one of a very small number. (2-3?)

 

 

Modello 60, Stipula WES LE, Bexley Submariner Grande, Bexley Owner's Club. There are a few different versions of the Etruria and Mercury pens in this material, too.

 

 

Modello 60, Bexley Owner's Club Prototype, Bexley Poseidon for Penultimate pens. This material (tomato soup red) has also been used on numerous Bexleys and the Stipula Etruria Volterra. There was also a WES Stipula made with this. This material, and the grey, have been the most widely used since the original Tibaldis. Well, the oringinal remade Tibaldis...

 

 

Tibaldo Impero, Bexley Submariner Grande, Bexley Owner's Club. This material has also been used on other Bexleys and for the WES Stipula.

 

 

The others- these colors were not used on any other pens as far as I know. Transparente, Iride, and Bononia.

Edited September 15, 2008 by Vicary

[rroossinck]

What a gorgeous collection, Doug!

 

Man, I want an Etruria made from this stuff!

 

[Sazerac]

What a gorgeous collection, Doug!

 

Man, I want an Etruria made from this stuff!

 

 

I second that!

[gylyf]

What a gorgeous collection, Doug!

 

Man, I want an Etruria made from this stuff!

 

 

An Etruria would rock. But one of my fantasy "will never exist" pens is an OMAS Paragon in this material. Or, better yet, a Lucens . By far my favorite celluloid. Best,

David

 

PS Gorgeous collection, Doug. Thanks for sharing.

Edited September 15, 2008 by cellulophile

[bugmd]

Doug, as always you have such a wonderful collection. I recently sold my Bexley 2006 Owners Collection in the havanna color because the pen just did not sing to me. Congratulations on a lovely set of pens.

[Vicary]

Doug, as always you have such a wonderful collection. I recently sold my Bexley 2006 Owners Collection in the havanna color because the pen just did not sing to me. Congratulations on a lovely set of pens.

 

Don-

 

Do you have the complete Tibaldi set now? Last I remember you'd picked up the Bononia, very tough to get.

 

The Bexleys are really nice, Howard's done some great things with that Tibaldi material. I've had a couple flat top style pens in the red, and the Watleys in the red and the grey. None of those were good fits for me, though, and since I have plenty of those colors already, I let those go...

 

-Doug

 

[John Cullen]

HI anyone know if the material Doug has pictured in the fourth photo down (the tomato soup) is the same celluloid used in the new Bexley 56?

 

Some of the ads I have seen for the Bexley 56 seem to refer to this by different names and so I have not been sure which material exactly is used on that pen.

 

 

thsnk, j

[bugmd]

Yes, I do. I have all three Modello 60's, Iride, Impero, Trasparante and the Bononia. Thankfully, I never took a liking to the Modello 50's.

[Leigh R]

Doug! <dies> Such beautiful material. Quite striking when seen in a line-up like that.

[Idiopathos]

And Mercury!

 

http://beluxpenshow2007.e-monsite.com/rubr...nd,1142966.html

[Vicary]

HI anyone know if the material Doug has pictured in the fourth photo down (the tomato soup) is the same celluloid used in the new Bexley 56?

 

Yup, that's the same stuff. I don't know what it's actually called, maybe Rosso-Verde? But if you see a red celluloid Bexley, this is the stuff!

 

-D

 

 

[Idiopathos]

I recently sold my Bexley 2006 Owners Collection in the havanna color because the pen just did not sing to me.

It's singing to me now. Loud and clear.

 

An excellent pen and first class seller. (Thank you, Don, for the extra care you took with delivery.)

Edited September 17, 2008 by Idiopathos

[bugmd]

The pleasure was mine.

[Rufus]

The Bexley 56 in the red-brown celluloid is absolutely gorgeous. I have yet to see a photograph of it that does it justice.

[DovR]

Wow Doug, what a SUPERB new old tibaldi cellloid collection. As an aficianado of the genre, I take my hat off to you.BTW if anyone wants to sell their trasparente and/or bononio, pls holler. this will help me complete the basic quintet.Bst wishesDov

[John Cullen]

Thanks. The Bexley 56 is a nice pen and I have long considered getting one in the Tibaldi celluloid. Guess I better get one while the getting is good.

 

j

[RedRob]

Doug that is an incredible and focused collection. Watch out the camphor fumes!

 

I wish I could travel some 100 years in the future and see how those Mazzuchelli celluloids have aged in comparison to each other.

[georges zaslavsky]

quite a killing nice collection congrats doug

[Deirdre]

There's only a few people's pen collections I'd love to visit, and Vicary's is one of them (and winedoc, and Karen in Hong Kong, and a few others).

 

Amazing!

[Vicary]

There's only a few people's pen collections I'd love to visit, and Vicary's is one of them (and winedoc, and Karen in Hong Kong, and a few others).

 

Thanks! But outside of these and the Omas celluloids and the Montegrappas, it's pretty pedestrian...

 

-Doug