I got my first Pelikan last month (the M200 Demonstrator), and I love it. So far, I have found an excuse to write with it every day.
I got my first Pelikan last month (the M200 Demonstrator), and I love it. So far, I have found an excuse to write with it every day.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Just one, a Pel 100 I picked up for almost nothing, and which has just got a new CN nib to replace its broken one.
I don't like modern Pelikans all that much. But the vintage one has got me hooked. Now I want more...
EDIT - Oh, I fibbed. I have two lovely little pelikanos. One bird, then, and two little chicks ... that reminds me of something I saw somewhere... wonder where?
Last edited by amk; March 27th, 2014 at 02:02 PM. Reason: forgot two pens!
I have 4 Pelikan FPs now: the first nice FP I got was a Pelikan M215 F with the blue barrel, then a chance find (antique shop) terrific M & K Pelikan 120 with EF nib, then recently a Pelikan M600 F Ruby Red Limited Edition, then a couple days ago another M215 Rings F. Those M215s are just about the perfect pen for me. I love the little bit of extra heft they have over the non-metal Pelikans.
I have a black M1000 and my wife has one also.
Just added two Pelikans to my collection - both Pelikan Graphos, the earlier ones, both with a quite large selection of different nibs. I wonder what the odds are against finding two in a single weekend of car boot sales? :-)
The current flock, in rough order of production:
140
P1
MK10
M20
M30
P15
P488
120 (M&K)
Signum P530
New Classic P381
Future P55
Souverän M600
...plus diverse Pelikanos (Junior or not) and my son's Griffix ensemble. A Level 5 should be appearing sometime soon, if the Italian postal system hasn't devoured it (the tracking shows it was mailed... rather a long time ago).
Given to daily lunatic raving, but also capable of more prolonged pen-centricity.
Am up to four now. In order of acquisition:
120 Merz & Krell with EF
M205 in Toledo Red with M
M150 in Black with M
M205 in Black with F
Brad "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain
More than I need:
- 120 steel nib
- 140 gold ball nib
- M100 (the all white with black-painted steel nib)
- 400NN (currently using a Binderized M600 medium nib. I know...Rick Propas would object, but it had a scratchy semi-flex nib)
- M200 steel medium nib
- M600 striated green Binderized medium nib
- M605 all blue Binderized M400 medium nib (the 400 nib feels handier in the 600 body)
I really love my Pelikans, and I have-
m205 White medium nib
m205 Black medium nib
m400 White Tortoise medium nib
400 SE Brown Tortoise fine nib
-and I have a special one that I have put away, only to open when I have achieved a fitness goal . So I will name it someday, when I have reached that goal. I know everyone will be on pins and needles!
I have two M800s one blue and one tortoise shell...would like to add the green M1000 in the near future and a white tortoise shell M400
I have 5 so far:
M205 red EF
M205 taupe EF
M205 white F
M200 black I
M205 white I
... and am l̶u̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ contemplating the M400 white tortoise in EF.
I'm now the proud owner of my first (and only) vintage 1950's M400. Tortoise with broad 14kt nib; I wish I had more info about it--the feed is vertical instead of horizontal. Never dreamed a pen could write like this!
Last edited by VertOlive; June 27th, 2015 at 06:22 PM.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Three Pelicans. So far. I need to stay away from piscov's site, or I'll end up with more!
Fernando Gouvêa -- fqgouvea@roadrunner.com
Right now, I have two Pelikan fountain pens: a P200 and a Pharo. The Pharo doesn't seem to write as well as I remember (I got it a long time ago), but I like the P200. I might consider getting other Pelikans in the future, especially since the P200 is a little small for me. I don't have a big problem with it, but I think I prefer pens that are a bit longer.
inklord (September 30th, 2015)
inklord (September 30th, 2015)
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