Lamy Safari

[Anne-Sophie]

 

Thank you so much Christof!

 

Your collection is wonderful!

 

 

Apologies to all Lamy Safari enthusiasts for not updating my history of Safari post inspired by Christof and Chris data.

 

Juggling holidays celebrations, gift giving with local business online store and pickup with the need to booster against Omicron and making sure extended family clusters and friend, all over the world are also safe.

 

I didn't have time to focus on that post, because I want it to be accurate and useful, it will take time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[christof]

9 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting photo.  I like how you've sorted them by color.  

But I'm not seeing the 2021 "White and Red".... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Thank you.

I should have mentioned, that my photo shows the different colors only, but not every variant of the Safari.

[Astronymus]

Marvelous picture.

[bonnie-scott]

On 12/26/2021 at 8:10 PM, christof said:

since I was able to complete my collection lately, I made another overview of all the existing colors, as a reference and just for fun.

Congratulations on completing your collection Christof 🎉

 

Stunning photos as always ❤️

[bonnie-scott]

On 11/4/2021 at 2:07 PM, christof said:

Here comes the latest (and last) update of the table:

 

hi Christof,

received this today, first time I have seen a list produced by Lamy.  Not as comprehensive as your, but does include the model number issued by Lamy.  Something for the geeks like me 🙂

LAMY safari Special Editions - Chronological overview.pdf

[Astronymus]

"darc lilac". Tippfehler drin.

[Black Spot]

Oh no ein  Tippfehler

 

[christof]

...Tippfehler hin oder her, die Liste ist leider nicht vollständig.

 

The list isn't complete. There are missing most of the early colors. Why only listing the Special editions? (...and was Griso really a SE?)

Are you sure that this is officially from LAMY??

[bonnie-scott]

6 hours ago, christof said:

Are you sure that this is officially from LAMY??

Hi Christof, 

sorry don't know why it doesn't list the early standard editions....  But I'm happy it a Lamy list as it came from a Lamy rep.

Thought I would post it as I've never seen a list produced by Lamy and it included the model numbers they had allocated.

 

Julian

Edited February 14, 2022 by bonnie-scott
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[Black Spot]

I bet lamy never thought of pen enthusiasts and that we would be obsessing about what pen was sold this year or that. 

[Astronymus]

My guess is they just copy-pasted it from somewhere on the internet.

[Black Spot]

I think we need to find pictures of school children in class in Germany where you can see the pens they have this way we can confirm the pens release dates.  Astronymus contact the university of apfelstrudelhausen and get us a professorship We have a research topic, I am going to guess this falls under industrial design history

[Astronymus]

I'm on it.

[christof]

The dates on Chris' and my list were confirmed by catalogs and LAMY itself.

 

LAMY would have been better to start earlier to keep a list...

[christof]

Yesterday, I got this from a dealer in Hongkong:

 

 

I think that the color of this China Special Edition could be exactly the same as the announced "Stawberry" . It seems that they have to economise at LAMY...

[Astronymus]

I supected that. The clip is black though.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for posting the photo, christof.  I'll admit that I think the black clip is more attractive than the matching color clip on this year's "Strawberry".  And the black nib just adds to it, the way the black clip and nib set off "Dark Lilac" (my first Safari).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Anne-Sophie]

So interesting about the new Strawberry!

 

I need to check that file from Lamy, but the true reference is Christof's and Chris.

 

Since the Pantone color of the year is Periwinkle, we might be lucky to get a textured Safari in that color a little bit paler and bluer than Violet.

 

One can dream.

 

 

[Astronymus]

1 hour ago, Anne-Sophie said:

the Pantone color of the year

Fun for marketing zombies. 😁

[inkstainedruth]

12 hours ago, Anne-Sophie said:

So interesting about the new Strawberry!

 

I need to check that file from Lamy, but the true reference is Christof's and Chris.

 

Since the Pantone color of the year is Periwinkle, we might be lucky to get a textured Safari in that color a little bit paler and bluer than Violet.

 

One can dream.

 

 

Well, when the Dark Lilac came out a few years ago, there was someone on FPN (don't remember who now) who had been petitioning Lamy for a purple Safari for several years at that point, and was just EXULTANT at Lamy actually finally doing one.  When I finally decided I wanted one, I was originally thinking going really silly and getting a pink one -- but didn't like the color when I saw one in person.  And then?  Dark Lilac came out and it was ALL OVER..... 

Hmmm.  A Periwinkle Safari. I don't know whether I'd like that color unless it was really different from Violet.  A Periwinkle al-Star, OTOH?  Oh yeah....   I would DEFINITELY buy one of those, assuming it wasn't too close in color to last year's Azure (maybe a bright color, the way the Vibrant Pink al-Star is).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth