fountainpenkid
March 12th, 2012, 01:49 PM
forenote:(my latin teacher would love me for this title!)
Well,
WHAT a weekend at the Long Island Pen Show!!!!
It was both my dad's and my first pen show, and god, we had a lot of fun (though I now know what dan and eric mean about getting tired...)
So I stopped by Paul Erano's table, and I asked him if he had the OMAS Dama I had wanted... and then we got talking--he showed me his parts bin, and low and behold, he gave me a Parker Duofold Junior in green celluloid for FREE! Of course, I have to restore the pen.....I'll post the progress so far ( I need sac sealant though.)
So, you thought that getting a nice restorable $70 pen for free was nice, right? Well, I walked by the Junk Bin, (I don't know who's table it actually was), and next to the big pile of c%$@, I saw a little sheaffer box. I opened it up, and found a BEAUTIFUL green triumph with a vac filler crest model and in really good condition. So I asked someone (I will regret forgetting his name :o) about it, and after a bit of talking, he picked it up, and said, "here. take it!" Now THATS a deal! and a very generous collector!) So then, I figured out that the filler was broken :( But then, I gave it to Ron Zorn to repair! So for $45 (the price of the repair) I got two great pens! What an amazing show and very nice people!
Then I talked to richard binder about how to reapair the Duofold...he (obviously) gave great advice! My dad spent most of the time with susan wirth, who knocked some sense into him by clarifying that 30 Platigunum school pens is no amazing collection! He also talked to a guy named Daniel who focuses on '30's sheaffers (balance) and has a couple of vintage Gibson guitairs (both my dad and I love music and instruments, so it was a cool connection.) And I played a Ukulele right at the end--Ian K. (the guy who ran the postcard class) had a little Martin S-O and I played a couple tunes on it--I was strumming near Richard's table and he says, "Will, I think I hate you. You can play that thing!" (I assume that he's tried to play guitair or uke and failed..)
Anyway, it was a WONDERFUL time!!! I'll make it an annual thing!
Well,
WHAT a weekend at the Long Island Pen Show!!!!
It was both my dad's and my first pen show, and god, we had a lot of fun (though I now know what dan and eric mean about getting tired...)
So I stopped by Paul Erano's table, and I asked him if he had the OMAS Dama I had wanted... and then we got talking--he showed me his parts bin, and low and behold, he gave me a Parker Duofold Junior in green celluloid for FREE! Of course, I have to restore the pen.....I'll post the progress so far ( I need sac sealant though.)
So, you thought that getting a nice restorable $70 pen for free was nice, right? Well, I walked by the Junk Bin, (I don't know who's table it actually was), and next to the big pile of c%$@, I saw a little sheaffer box. I opened it up, and found a BEAUTIFUL green triumph with a vac filler crest model and in really good condition. So I asked someone (I will regret forgetting his name :o) about it, and after a bit of talking, he picked it up, and said, "here. take it!" Now THATS a deal! and a very generous collector!) So then, I figured out that the filler was broken :( But then, I gave it to Ron Zorn to repair! So for $45 (the price of the repair) I got two great pens! What an amazing show and very nice people!
Then I talked to richard binder about how to reapair the Duofold...he (obviously) gave great advice! My dad spent most of the time with susan wirth, who knocked some sense into him by clarifying that 30 Platigunum school pens is no amazing collection! He also talked to a guy named Daniel who focuses on '30's sheaffers (balance) and has a couple of vintage Gibson guitairs (both my dad and I love music and instruments, so it was a cool connection.) And I played a Ukulele right at the end--Ian K. (the guy who ran the postcard class) had a little Martin S-O and I played a couple tunes on it--I was strumming near Richard's table and he says, "Will, I think I hate you. You can play that thing!" (I assume that he's tried to play guitair or uke and failed..)
Anyway, it was a WONDERFUL time!!! I'll make it an annual thing!