david i
February 22nd, 2014, 07:22 PM
I'm not so into the cult-of-the-nib. I primarily collect, though I'm happy to use fountain pens regularly (have had about 5 of my 5000 pens in rotation the last 12 months). Typically I carry two pens, one with a fine point, the other a stub.
Of course I don't object to finding fancy pens on old nibs. Stub, Broad, Flex, Oblique all add value (in varying degrees) to old pens, since for some popular models anything beyond fine-to-medium can be a one-in-fifty or even one-in-five-hundred find. And, my customers like 'em ;)
So, when I was at the Los Angeles Pen Show last week (Feb 2014), and managed to score between the Janesville Hoard Round 2 the day before the show and the show itself some 140 pens, I was happy to find a few interesting nibs.
Here is discussion of the LA Finds, starting with the single 58 pen purchase.
Link- LA Pen Show 2014 finds- (http://www.fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread.php/5971-Los-Angeles-Pen-Show-Feb-2014-Booty-Shots)
One of the nice Sheaffer Targas (a 1970's-1990's pen) had a fat stub nib. A lined sterling pen it is a cut above the basic models though hardly a rare pattern. Though the line is broad, pretty well all stubs write a broad line on downstroke.
It was at the very end of the show that a humble brushed white-metal Targa found its way to my table. But what a nib!
Not just a stub, it's what we in the know call an "FP-Stub" for short.
Here are a couple images. At top of the first image is the Sterling Sheaffer Targa with broad stub point, done in gold. Below that is the FP-stub on the brushed white-metal Targa.
I do wonder if this thing was a custom order. I've handled many Targas and have never seen another like this.
Broad writing Stub of solid gold above the FP-Stub below. Both pens are Sheaffer Targas
http://www.vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_targa_ultrabroadnibA900.jpg
Next, the backside of the two pens, now with the FP-Stub above the merely broad writing stub of gold
http://www.vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_targa_ultrabroadnibB900.jpg
regards
david
Of course I don't object to finding fancy pens on old nibs. Stub, Broad, Flex, Oblique all add value (in varying degrees) to old pens, since for some popular models anything beyond fine-to-medium can be a one-in-fifty or even one-in-five-hundred find. And, my customers like 'em ;)
So, when I was at the Los Angeles Pen Show last week (Feb 2014), and managed to score between the Janesville Hoard Round 2 the day before the show and the show itself some 140 pens, I was happy to find a few interesting nibs.
Here is discussion of the LA Finds, starting with the single 58 pen purchase.
Link- LA Pen Show 2014 finds- (http://www.fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread.php/5971-Los-Angeles-Pen-Show-Feb-2014-Booty-Shots)
One of the nice Sheaffer Targas (a 1970's-1990's pen) had a fat stub nib. A lined sterling pen it is a cut above the basic models though hardly a rare pattern. Though the line is broad, pretty well all stubs write a broad line on downstroke.
It was at the very end of the show that a humble brushed white-metal Targa found its way to my table. But what a nib!
Not just a stub, it's what we in the know call an "FP-Stub" for short.
Here are a couple images. At top of the first image is the Sterling Sheaffer Targa with broad stub point, done in gold. Below that is the FP-stub on the brushed white-metal Targa.
I do wonder if this thing was a custom order. I've handled many Targas and have never seen another like this.
Broad writing Stub of solid gold above the FP-Stub below. Both pens are Sheaffer Targas
http://www.vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_targa_ultrabroadnibA900.jpg
Next, the backside of the two pens, now with the FP-Stub above the merely broad writing stub of gold
http://www.vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_targa_ultrabroadnibB900.jpg
regards
david