What is your latest pen acquisition?

[Bisquitlips]

Beautiful! Sometimes the most demure of pens "dance" the best.

What is the ink you are using there please?

Thank you!
The ink was Rohrer & Klingner Alt GoldGrun.

Very nice! Thank you!

[pajaro]

Sheaffer vacuum fill deskpen and base in black. Triumph nib. Amazingly, it works.

I seem drawn to desk pens lately. Unfortunately, I don't have enough desks.

[farmdogfan]

A nice danish made green marbled MB 224 (1941-1954).

[HughC]

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Nice colour, well made and it's good to use. Didn't cost a lot either.

[SIR]

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[Blue Note]

Lamy Safari Dark Lilac Special Edition with fine nib. Also managed to get a bottle of the matching Dark Lilac ink. Very nice.

[penwash]

I have a soft spot for British pens. So this one came: A Burnham No.54.
I've never seen a material like this one, it's a very elegant grey with swirls that ranges from pearl blue to golden.
The nib is a Burnham 14ct Medium. Reminds me of a Sheaffer nib when writing with it.

Love. It.

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

I use a budget, especially since my job doesn't pay me in the summer. So I budgeted for trim around my doors this summer. I want baseboard and was so excited about how the doors turned out that I wanted to start on the baseboard. Trouble was, it wasn't in the budget. No problem, raid the "fun" budget. But, no, I had already bought a pen with the "fun" budget. My rules have kept me out of financial trouble, so I won't break them. I was a little depressed about the baseboard. However, the pen is helping me feel better.

The pen caught my eye because it was Platinum's Kin-gyo celluloid pen. I had never considered the pen before because it was out of my price range. Then I saw it on Amazon for a price that was very close to the regular 3776 pens. I couldn't resist and had the money. I started on the trim in the meanwhile. But, I have to say the pen makes me happy, and the trim around the doors makes me happy, so I'll just wait and recharge that part of my budget before I do baseboard. And, that was my original plan anyway!

By the way: there was no sun today for getting good photos. But, I really needed the rain here, so I'll get the good photos some other time.

Here is the beauty:


There is a seam in the celluloid. I want to do some research to learn why it's there.


It is a broad nib. It's an amazing nib and I love it: wet, enough feedback, and awesome.


It's a little shorter than the regular Platinum 3776.


And it joins my "family" of Platinum pens. And, to think it all started with a medium Shoji that I hated. Happily, my opinion of this model has changed and I love the 3776,

[earthdawn]

LOVE that pen so much. CONGRATS !!!

I never noticed the seam before... hmmm...

[earthdawn]

Here... seam is normal to have

[picautomaton]

Congrats, that is a beauty. If I recall correctly the seam is there because it's made from a sheet of celluloid and not a turned blank.

[amk]

Gosh, between that Burnham and the 3776, what a festival of gorgeous celluloids! That's one 3776 I haven't got, but lust after...

[penwash]

That Platinum really looks like a Koi fish. Gorgeous.
The seam would bug me a bit, but not much.

[Lady Onogaro]

Here's my newest pen (from Scriptorium Pens--her pictures are so much better than anything I could take):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lady_t...in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lady_t...n/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lady_t...n/photostream/

[Pelikan-Vera]

I am waiting for a Soennecken 222 in the silver hash finish. Hopefully the nib is nice and springy. Vera

[Crazyorange]

Here's my newest pen (from Scriptorium Pens--her pictures are so much better than anything I could take):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lady_t...in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lady_t...n/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lady_t...n/photostream/

I saw the pics on IG. So beautiful. I particularly liked the cat stopper. Congrats

[Jon Szanto]

I have a couple recent purchases that need time to do proper photos. I had to do the following to post elsewhere to ask some questions so I thought I'd share. Finally replacing a Wahl ringtop I sold a couple years ago, I've just been patient. Last week this sweet thing came up and seemed right. Upon receipt I was pleased to have no bad surprises.

This is a Wahl 436, ~1921 (I believe) with a lovely 14k #3 nib. Just dipping it writes nicely with no adjustment. Just a little bit of restoration and this will be a fine example pen of the period.

And it was less expensive than a bottle of BungBox ink.

[Blue Note]

sweet thing

Sweet thing is right. I like the looks of that nib.

[VertOlive]

Still awaiting the Nakaya I ordered at Christmas.....

[VertOlive]

Here it is. I didn't think they were worth a picture. I was wrong.
Top to bottom: LeBoeuf, Parker 21 and Sheaffer.

Really smitten by that Sheaffer!