Post photos of your pens using unusual angle, props, whatever that exercise your creativity.
Let's start with this:
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Post photos of your pens using unusual angle, props, whatever that exercise your creativity.
Let's start with this:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1740/...e0758938_c.jpg
JUXTAPOSITION
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
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Cleaning...
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Mirrored...
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No. The pen is complete and assembled. I have it laying on a tray made of card stock, similar to the trays in a pen storage case, and I cut out a narrow rectangle the length of the portion of the barrel that is transparent*. Underneath the tray is an LED light. I turned the lights off in the room, placed the pen and took a pic with my phone of the light coming through the barrel.
What you see are helical lines in the celluloid, which is "wrapped", forming the spiral. The line in the middle is the steel rod of the plunger.
*I put the asterisk by the term transparent because, like many celluloid pens of this era, the material has ambered quite a bit; you don't get nearly the effect if you just hold it up to the ambient daylight, and if the barrel had ink in it you wouldn't see anything at all. It is true ambering, not stained inside, so it isn't reversible. However, taking this shot does show the interesting construction of the pen.*
Largest pen stand...?
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Hi,
harvest of 2019... :-)
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Mabie Todd Swan 1041 (green, medium flex nib) and 1042 (blue, fine semiflex nib) and the last mirabelles of the year.
These mirabelles (Mirabelle de Nancy, a very old plum relative) are some of the sweetest and most aromatic fruits when harvestet late.
Best
Jens
That's a beauty ...
I posted this a while ago and the responses were not what I expected.
Disclaimer: no cats or pens were hurt during the taking of this photograph. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...aef315cf9a.jpg
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Almost still-life -like.
Took it to document the restoration of the pen.
No caption necessary...
I love my Meisterbrook.
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This was the only prototype that made it out of the Esterbrook corporate office without a violent end. The drawings and remainder of the prototypes were snatched curbside by one Esther Brook diverting them from the back seat of the company patent lawyer's Cadillac on the streets of Cherry Hill. Esther's Kaiser-Fraiser raced to the old factory in Camden, and she burned all the prototypes on the roof, thereby preventing the filing of a design patent for the new Meisterbrook range.
Esther later turned up in Hamburg with the drawings, but the German authorities in Hamburg refused to cooperate in an extradition of Esther, so the entire project collapsed. This is the only artifact that remains from this important event in fountain pen history. It writes beautifully. I never post it.