Ian Dixon shows us his Daily Carry Pens

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Ian Dixon, our friend ianmedium in fountain pen forums, gave my request for pictures of his Daily Carry Pens a very warm welcome. When the photos arrived, I nearly went blind.

Before reading further, I suggest you cover your eyes…

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Ian Dixon Daily Carry Pens small

Left to Right:

  1. Montblanc 149, Medium Nib (1999)
    This was a great eBay find. Inked only once then put back in its box in a safe until I purchased it.
  2. Sheaffer Imperial 777, Medium Nib (early 1970′s)
    I got this one earlier this year from Peyton Street Pens. This is the pen that started it all for me. My teacher loaned me his when I was 7 and it transformed handwriting for me. When I saw Terri had some NOS in stock, I pounced on it.
  3. Stipula Tuscany Dreams, Flexi Italic 1.1 Nib
    This one and the incoming Titanium Flex Nib version are my latest purchases.
  4. Parker Duofold Special, Broad Flexi Stub (1927/28)
    I wanted an orange Duofold ever since, as a child, I saw John Boy Walton receive one as a gift from Ike Godsey in an episode of The Waltons!
  5. Retro 51 Twilight Zone Montblanc Alfred Hitchcock LE, Medium Nib (Limited Edition from 2013)
    This one was a gift from a client of mine.
  6. Parker 51 Special, Medium Nib (1950′s)
    I love 51′s. This one is an eBay bargain. I won it for $23 and it writes like a dream.
  7. Montegrappa Historia, Medium Nib (Limited Edition from 1999)
    This one came from John Mottishaw. I sold it to a fellow pen club member then swapped it back for the Nakaya I used to own.

Ian Dixon Daily Carry Nibs small

I asked Ian what inks were in each pen and he replied:

I keep them all filled with the same ink and when it comes to change over, I have a lovely couple of hours returning the ink to the bottle and flushing and refilling with new ink. At the moment, the pens are filled with Aurora Black, but the other choices I have are Hitchcock Red, Montblanc Midnight Blue, and Diamine Chocolate Brown.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/tomoddo Tom Oddo

    Geek points are for The Birds… :-)

  • controlsfreak

    Shiny…gives me a bit of vertigo.

  • http://twitter.com/FPOkami Julie

    Wasn’t Rod Serling the host of the Twilight Zone?

  • Hardy Pottinger

    “She sounds almost too good to be true.”
    [pause] “She almost is.”

  • Carlos Cal Brandão

    suspense is no retro.

  • ianmedium

    Hmmmm, wonder which one it is ;) thanks again for the opportunity Eric.

  • ethernautrix

    They passed in the night, like Strangers On A Train….

  • peterpen53

    We look back through the dim light to the Master of Mysteries……

  • Minislot

    I swear I saw ‘The Birds’; or maybe it was just a Pelikan.

  • http://monkeyphotomcr.blogspot.com/ John_the_Monkey

    Hmm, not so much “The Wrong Man”, as “The Wrong…”

  • DET

    Given that I was with Eric when he first saw the misidentified pen in person, I am pretty sure I know which one it is.

  • Lince

    Pa ramp pam pam pam pam paaam pam pam

  • Maja

    Great pens, Ian! Thanks for bringing your latest acquisitions to our last pen club meeting :)

  • Dgator

    Strange…I see Rod Serling outside my “Rear Window”?

  • http://theinkednib.com/ Lee Smallwood

    You got your Night Gallery in my Outer Limits, a year early.

  • Will

    The pen with swirls is really from a star logo manufacturer

  • RagingDragon

    Shouldn’t that be the “Back to the Future” pen? It’s true nature can be found in the fluid list.

  • Howard

    Retroactively, it should be mentioned that it is really 4810 folks

  • http://www.facebook.com/angel.chen.92317 Angel Chen

    The Aztecs were wrong about 2012….

    • RagingDragon

      Not necessarily. The Aztec calendar was composed of many nested cycles, and while some see 2012 as the end of the calendar (and predict the end of the world) to others interpret it as the outermost cycle repeats (and predict a time of change and rebirth). Of course, with the Aztecs culture long gone it doesn’t really matter one way or the other whether their calender ends or cycles.

  • melissa59

    Cool carry, Ian! I missed who they belonged to because I was in the middle of a commercial when they came up. Weird, I didn’t have commercials the other times I watched the podcasts.

    • ianmedium

      Hi Melissa. I know, those commercials can be a right pain sometimes! One came up for me right at the point when they were about to announce the winner of the pen!