Thank you, Ricky! This was fantastic!! I always enjoy your LA Pen Show thread. Thanks so much for putting this together.
Thank you, Ricky! This was fantastic!! I always enjoy your LA Pen Show thread. Thanks so much for putting this together.
Beware of oblique conclusions.
Sunday-The Penpolcalypse
Once again it is Sunday. I got to the ballroom around 8 am a bit later than in year’s past. There is always a flurry of activity before the crowds arrive. I used the time to buy a pen Hirsch Davis and then sell it to Gale 15 minutes later. There was squeeing. As usual, the show’s entire character changes as the show gets ready for the masses. Due to the weather back east, a lot of the vintage guys had their flights cancelled so they stayed for the Sunday fun.
The Flexxie Balloon looked a bit deflated
A made a last round around the room looking for cool stuff.
Some lovely Swans.
A nice group of Waterman Patricians
Fred Krinkie had some interesting Parker salesman’s kits
A Schnell
Some show specials
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
Crazyorange (February 17th, 2015), dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), ethernautrix (February 17th, 2015), franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), penultress (February 21st, 2015), reprieve (February 16th, 2015), rpsyed (February 22nd, 2015), Sketchy (February 15th, 2016), Tracy Lee (February 17th, 2015), Zhivago (February 17th, 2015)
Getting Ready
Fed Krinkie
Lee Chait
David
Pen World
Mary Burke and the rest of the Yafa team
Maxim who brought his son
The side hallway
Andreas Lambrou
Bryant Greer
Here’s Bryant’s wife loading up on chocolate for the long day. She was;t fooling around and went straight for the 16 piece family size.
Jim and Scott
Hirsch Davis
Shu-Jen and Joel
Trouble. Actually, it’s Paul Erano and David Issaacson
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), ethernautrix (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015), reprieve (February 16th, 2015), rpsyed (February 22nd, 2015), Sketchy (February 15th, 2016)
A serious conversation. (it actually was except for the Hello Kitty Ballons)
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Joi to the rescue
Michael Sull sets up
Last Minute Shopping
Dan
Gale
Amber Lea Davis
Meanwhile, the crowds……
The reg desk.
The line
Mary Burke signing people up for the raffle.
Just before the opening.
It’s Marta (aka Plistumi) At least she did't photobomb me this year.
Dan and Mr. Kuzuno
Last edited by AltecGreen; February 16th, 2015 at 09:46 PM.
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
Crazyorange (February 17th, 2015), dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), ethernautrix (February 17th, 2015), franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015), penultress (February 21st, 2015), reprieve (February 16th, 2015), Sketchy (February 15th, 2016), Tracy Lee (February 17th, 2015), Zhivago (February 17th, 2015)
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), ethernautrix (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015), reprieve (February 16th, 2015), Sketchy (February 15th, 2016), Tracy Lee (February 17th, 2015), Zhivago (February 17th, 2015)
Sunday Miscellany
The Karas guys were great sports. They were slow during the trader days but were doing very well on Sunday.
Sarj is called the one man one show
I think he’d be lost without Jas
The Kuzunos were doing well
Mario Campa
Mr. Endo
Michael Sull
Frances
Mike Masuyama
Desiderata Pens were one of the new companies that were at LA
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), ethernautrix (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015), penultress (February 21st, 2015), reprieve (February 16th, 2015), rpsyed (February 22nd, 2015), Sketchy (February 15th, 2016), Tracy Lee (February 17th, 2015), Zhivago (February 17th, 2015)
Al Grosskopf
Sherrell Tyree
Playing Hookee
Brian was supposed to be working at Rick Propas’s table. I found him at Mike’s table getting pens worked on instead. Busted.
Syd Saperstein and Wahl-Eversharp
Random Pens
New Montegrappas
Michael’s Fatboy and their Civil War pen
It’s Nakaya time
There seems to be a Nakaya shortage. The picture shows most of the current stock. There were very few tamenuri pens at the show. Hopefully the new shipment next week will help. I know several people who had to place an order instead of finding one at the show. If you want one, I would place an order.
Eboya at nibs.com
John’s picking up the line. John was impressed with the build quality. These pens are exceptionally well made.
Last edited by AltecGreen; February 16th, 2015 at 11:06 PM.
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), ethernautrix (February 17th, 2015), franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015), reprieve (February 16th, 2015), rpsyed (February 22nd, 2015), Sketchy (February 15th, 2016), Tracy Lee (February 17th, 2015), Zhivago (February 17th, 2015)
Staedtler Pen
A forest of deskpens
Cleo Skribent
This is a venerable German line but relatively unheard of in the US. I was told they were on the wrong side of the Berlin wall and were making technical pencils through the Eastern Soviet bloc. With the end of the cold war, they resumed fountain pen production. These can be obtained from deutschepens.com.
Old time advertising. I wonder how people will preserve our modern internet ads.
A Ryan Krusac pen
A Gift Bag?
Beautiful wood.
Back at the last table in the outer aisle was Heinz Creative Latheworks. You find a lot if interesting dealers away from the big guys.
I spent a lot of time chatting with the Dan about the woods. He works in domestic woods and he showed me a lot of beautiful domestic lumber.
Chestnut burl
Myrtle wood
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Beautiful latticework on the bowls
Colorful Laban pens
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By noon, I was feeling it. Many of us from the Pen Posse had already left. So I packed it in so I could get back in time to dump all of the photos for this report. It was an odd show. It was a great buying show and most everyone I talked to who was there over the four days went over budget. Still the show was a bit slow on Friday afternoon and most of Saturday. As one person put it, it was lacking in energy. It was just as well because if there was more energy I would really be broke. So we conclude another LA Pen Show. As always, it was good to see everyone. It is like seeing family. As Paul Ezrano said on Thursday night, the show is really about the people and the stories. The pens are just the bonus.
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), ethernautrix (February 17th, 2015), franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015), picautomaton (February 17th, 2015), reprieve (February 16th, 2015), rpsyed (February 22nd, 2015), Tracy Lee (February 17th, 2015), Zhivago (February 17th, 2015)
I like that gift bag.
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
Wow, Ricky, that was awesome! It was great to finally meet you and spend some time chatting with you and farmboy. I now understand some of these inside jokes.
franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015)
Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015)
2017 San Francisco Pen Show
August 25-27th, 2017
Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065
franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015)
No kidding. Dan laughed when I said I had gone up to two different people (in my defense, one had been pointed out to me) and said "Are you Dan Smith?". Finally someone said "I think he's walking around in a camo cap."
Yeah, good times. Dan, you simply HAVE to budget for a trip to the SF Show. Pen show done right.
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), franzdimson (February 17th, 2015)
AltecGreen (February 16th, 2015), dannzeman (February 16th, 2015), franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2015)
In the background is our our intrepid photographer along with Doug
The fire pit along with the Calvados, cigars, and other tasty libations, not to mention the excellent german-chocolate birthday cake were such a nice way to cap off the day. Thank you guys for sharing all the contraband (any questions about the country of origin for the cigars will be promptly redirected
Calvados IMG_0126 sm.jpg
And for the record, on Sunday I was only having one nib re-adjusted. I didn't think they would have the time or schedule space, but they did, which was outstanding, and 'Christina was covering for me' is my official response.
Last edited by bleair; February 17th, 2015 at 09:34 AM.
franzdimson (February 17th, 2015), Jeph (February 18th, 2015), Jon Szanto (February 17th, 2015)
absolutely EPIC thread !!!
Thank you so much for taking time to share it with us in such great detail.
Thank you AltecGreen, I've been following your pen show reports for years and they give me a bit of insight into the pen show world. Put faces to names and see such wonderful pens. Once again thank for taking the time to document the pen shows you attend, we on other continents really appreciate it. Stay cool.
I enjoyed the photos immensely. Thank you.
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