What is your latest pen acquisition?

[jadehawk]

Platinum 3776 Sakura, a keep-it-forever-pen. Inked with Diamine "Cerise".

Really hard to do justice to the coloring and craftsmanship of this pink and mother of pearl with an i-phone:

wow that is a pretty looking pen.. must hide picture from the wife!!

[jadehawk]

@KBeezie Those picture make that pen (Eversharp Skyline Demi) look so nice that I may have to begin and hunt one down!! you are a bad enabler!!

Now you had to restore your copy.. what is a good fair price range for a un-restore and a restore version if I hunt the fleebay i don't want to pay more that I have to!..

[jadehawk]

Arrived in the mail. . Got a free matching pencil was not expecting that! !

Sheaffer Valiant . It has a touchdown filling system pretty cool as I never had one till now.

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[Jon Szanto]

@KBeezie Those picture make that pen (Eversharp Skyline Demi) look so nice that I may have to begin and hunt one down!!

Just be aware that the Demis are fairly petite pens (short and light), so you might want to look for a standard size unless you have small hands.

Arrived in the mail. . Got a free matching pencil was not expecting that! !

Sheaffer Valiant . It has a touchdown filling system pretty cool as I never had one till now.

You'll enjoy it - those are routinely very nice writing pens.

[KBeezie]

@KBeezie Those picture make that pen (Eversharp Skyline Demi) look so nice that I may have to begin and hunt one down!! you are a bad enabler!!

Now you had to restore your copy.. what is a good fair price range for a un-restore and a restore version if I hunt the fleebay i don't want to pay more that I have to!..

Depends on them, in the wild for a gold-filled cap or celluloid striped cap one, I wouldn't pay more than $30 or so for an unrestored/unknown one, assuming it physically looked decent and doesn't appear to be missing anything (ie: clip, chunk of the barrel, etc). I try to aim for $15-20 for a dirty one that seems structurally fine and just needs to be cleaned up and re-sac'd. Primarily because you can get a fully restored gold-filled or striated cap one for around $60 - $100 sometimes a little less in 'user grade'.

The Moire is a different story because a restored one can easily go $200-300, and unrestored still seems to be pretty high, but if I did it again I would not go more than 60-80, funny enough the moire model was the economy model of most of the ones offered, but held their color better than the newer materials. I grabbed this one because it was the first time I saw a moire in a while that was structurally rather good and just needed a re-sacing.

Also while the Demi is somewhat Petit (4.75" capped, 4.6" uncapped, 5.1" posted), it's not too small, it's similar to the size of a Pelikan M200/M400 with a tapered tail end, and thinner barrel (and smaller nib). But the standard size is a good feel. There's also the executive model that's larger with a larger sac even, but it cost as much as the Moire. By the time I'd look into spending $300 towards an Eversharp I'd be looking at one of the Dorics.

[Special K]

A couple of Preppies, to go with my different Noodlers colors. The converter for the Preppy costs twice as much as the pen.
I got 4 Monteverdi mini converters for my Schrades

[john]

Waiting for a month, finally got it. Mont Blanc 3-42G piston filler which comes with 14k semi-flex F nib. Ink flow is not so good, I have to loose the blind cap a little, then it will not skip. But it can't write when the ink running dry from the feed even the barrel is full of ink.
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Disassemble the feed and nib, there's some dry old ink blocked the ink channel. Clean it up then it writes very well.

[earthdawn]

I got an Esterbrook Bandless Dollar Pen for Mr. Anderson himself @ the LI Pen Show this past weekend.

[TAYLORPUPPY]

Pelikan 140 in Black with green ink window (50s) and 14K Broad
Cursive italic, writes EF across, not a screw-in nib unit, friction fit with the feed that stops when the nib is out enough.
Currently inked with Diamine Oxblood

Pelikan M400 (Old-Style) in Brown Tortoise and 14K Medium
Slight custom ground cursive italic, does roughly over F across.
Currently Inked with Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

Pelikan 400NN (1956) in striped green with 14K EF Flex
The nib unit isn't metal, it's a hard rubber collar.
Currently inked with R&K Salix.

Very nice case. Did you make it?

[Cob]

I have been buying pens, but have been a bit busy fixing them!

Here a couple of recent arrivals in two of Mabie Todd's wonderful patterns.

Cob

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[akapulko2020]

Vandyke always manages to make pens shinier and spiffier than when they were new. No wonder he sells a lot of pens.

@jadehawk and Jon Szanto, could you please post a link to the seller vandyke/one of his items on ebay? The ebay app on my phone seems to have conspired against me, possibly for my own good against me finding it...

[Potter]

Just arrived in the mail this morning from Cool-Japan, an ebay purchase of a Platinum Century #3776 Chartres Blue with a C (BB) nib, joining the other two Platinum #3776's I've got, a Bourgogne Red Century with a SF nib and an older Black Balance with a B nib. The C nib is so very broad, it's like writing with a felt tip, so smooth, I've filled it up with Kaweco Paradise Blue, lovely. It seemed a bargain at £43.08, but once you've added the carriage ($15.00) then the HM Government VAT (£9.82) and the Royal Mail clearance fee (£13.50) it added up to £77.20, not such a bargain, but still better than the £109.00 that Cult pens would like to charge me

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[Jon Szanto]

Vandyke always manages to make pens shinier and spiffier than when they were new. No wonder he sells a lot of pens.

@jadehawk and Jon Szanto, could you please post a link to the seller vandyke/one of his items on ebay? The ebay app on my phone seems to have conspired against me, possibly for my own good against me finding it...

This should get you there.

[tintak]

My latest daily use pen: a clipless Franklin-Christoph smoke acrylic "Iterum" model # 03 with my old 18K JoWo 1.1 custom stub.

[da vinci]

A vintage lever fill Sheaffer with a conical nib.. Not sure of the model, but it is wonderful

[mhosea]

Not sure of the model, but it is wonderful

Crest something or other, I should think. I'm guessing you'd have mentioned if it was solid gold (that would be Crest Masterpiece). Unfortunately, my Sheaffer history from 1942-50 is too weak to know if/when they had Crest model that was all gold filled and what they would have called it. David I., Roger W., or Hugh C. would probably know.

[da vinci]

Not sure of the model, but it is wonderful

Crest something or other, I should think. I'm guessing you'd have mentioned if it was solid gold (that would be Crest Masterpiece). Unfortunately, my Sheaffer history from 1942-50 is too weak to know if/when they had Crest model that was all gold filled and what they would have called it. David I., Roger W., or Hugh C. would probably know.

Thanks Mike. It is stamped 14k on the barrel so I think it is solid rather than filled.

I have 2 modern Crests including the CP2. This seems "fatter" with a bigger taper at the end, although that may be a sign of age rather than a different model?

[mhosea]

Not sure of the model, but it is wonderful

Crest something or other, I should think. I'm guessing you'd have mentioned if it was solid gold (that would be Crest Masterpiece). Unfortunately, my Sheaffer history from 1942-50 is too weak to know if/when they had Crest model that was all gold filled and what they would have called it. David I., Roger W., or Hugh C. would probably know.

Thanks Mike. It is stamped 14k on the barrel so I think it is solid rather than filled.

I have 2 modern Crests including the CP2. This seems "fatter" with a bigger taper at the end, although that may be a sign of age rather than a different model?

Sorry, I just checked a catalog, and I guess they just called the all 14K one "Masterpiece". The "Crest Masterpiece" had black barrel with the gold cap.

Should be worth a pretty penny. That pen retailed for $100 pen in 1949. Not sure of the range of years when this one might have been manufactured, probably starting in 1942 or in whatever year after that the Masterpiece was introduced. I think production continued until 1950.

[kbrede]

My latest daily use pen: a clipless Franklin-Christoph smoke acrylic "Iterum" model # 03 with my old 18K JoWo 1.1 custom stub.

Nice! That will probably be my next F-C but I'm still enjoying my new model 20 for now.
Kent

[tintak]

Nice! That will probably be my next F-C but I'm still enjoying my new model 20 for now.
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Thanks Kent. F.C make innovative products.
I just took a good look at their website to find your mod. # 20. What a neat way of capping the pen.
Enjoy!