Commonwealth pen show

[Crazyorange]

Hello everyone[emoji4]

Here's a show low down. It's been a wonderful morning hanging around the convention room meeting people and checking out pens.

Though the show is little it's filled with great people and pens.

The only thing I hope they add a table with some ink and paper. It would be nice to hang a hang out place to sit and be with others.

So klpeabody and I made the drive to Boston and arrived last nite.

We were in line bright and early for Richard binders work.

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I think the big highlight was seeing Nathan of noodlers ink.

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He's introducing 3 new inks.
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As you can imagine....the line for his table was llllooooonnngggg.

If I understood correctly he's got some pens special for the show.
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[Crazyorange]

Then I met my first fountain pen doggie.
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She was an utter sweetie and as a big dog lover it was nice to get some doggie loving.

Soon the room filled up.
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[Crazyorange]

This vendor was using an old ledger to try out his pens. http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/09/20/f24e8a03541851e0314b14f19b2e2f8e.jpg

Nifty pen storage display.
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[Crazyorange]

Paperforfountainpens.com

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Cute mom and pop ink wells.
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[Crazyorange]

Andy beliveau make sterling silver clips. Though skulls are not my thing....I thought these were amazing.

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Mermaid
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Elephant
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Dragon whistle
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[Bogon07]

Great photos. Thanks for sharing them.
Did you come away with some interesting swag ?
I know some one else from the forum did :)

So many Noodler's pens......
What is the design on Nathan's tie ?

[SL89]

Very cool, I wish i could have made it up there, but it just wasn't in the cards.

[Crazyorange]

Great photos. Thanks for sharing them.
Did you come away with some interesting swag ?
I know some one else from the forum did :)

So many Noodler's pens......
What is the design on Nathan's tie ?

I went with $50. That's it - I spent $700 last Tuesday getting my car fixed [emoji22] so the budget was tiny. I bought one of the new noodlers ink and got a nib modified. Then the money was gone. Yet, I mostly went to meet pen people. Had a great conversation from a New Hampshire person, a Maine person and someone from the local Boston area. The Boston person joined klpeabody and me for lunch - 2 hours later we were still chatting. Gotta love the friendly people. [emoji4]

[Crazyorange]

Nathan's tie had some sort of political symbol. I've seen it before but can't remember what its called. He's an interesting character. I would love lunch with guy to hear what else is going on in his mind.

[writingrav]

Thanks for the wrap up. Glad it was such a great show. I can't wait to hear from various pen friends what they scored.

[jcgara]

For those of us marooned on the West Coast...is there any way to get one of the special Noodler's inks that Nathan sold at the show?

Jeff

[earthdawn]

Yea did you get the special inks he had for the show?

If I did not have to work Sunday I would have driven up there just for a bottle of the Blue ////

[cwent2]

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I did and a Dixie with gold nib