What is your latest pen acquisition?

[mizgeorge]

SO cool

[Radonactionservices]

Ditto. Flashes me back to those clock pens at Radio Shack, but much nicer!


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[markiv]

Nothing too interesting but this landed here yesterday. (photo is from the listing and is for illustrative purposes only)

The nib is somewhat flexible I guess, at least nice and bouncy.

One of the issues I've found with looking for vintage pens with 'woodgrain' materials is that they are often described as RHR or ebonite, and yet (to me) they don't have that same odour that my more modern ebonite pens (Ranga) have when rubbed. Not sure if the smell weakens with the age of the pen.

May be for catch and release.

I have seen certain pens which closely resemble HR but are actually celluloid/plastic. The strong smell in HR is from Sulphur which over the years mellows out.
Nice pen - these are great value proposition as it offers oversized bodies without the usual price tag.

[markiv]

I already had this wonderful Pilot Murex from 1977:


and I lately got this Murex Quartz Pen from 1981 in a change trade:

cool stuff! thank you V.

It was my pleasure too!
But how did you get the clock working do share the magic

[markiv]

My brother caught the bug from me so now we hunt together
These are his finds - Geha 768 demo and 762 in grey marbled

[christof]

Wow!
These are premium Gehas. The 76x series were the best one could get from Geha at that time.
Congrats.

[pajaro]

Wing Sung 601 Vac filler, revised type, in burgundy with the usual EF nib. It is not bad. When the diaphragm dies a replacement filler unit with diaphragm cost me less than $6 shipped. I bought a couple of those. Comes with a tool to R&R the filler.

[markiv]

Wing Sung 601 Vac filler, revised type, in burgundy with the usual EF nib. It is not bad. When the diaphragm dies a replacement filler unit with diaphragm cost me less than $6 shipped. I bought a couple of those. Comes with a tool to R&R the filler.

I have one of those and it sits in my everyday mug of pens. I read they have refined the design some but dont know exactly how.
I recall paying around USD18 and quite like it.

[TinaLe]

A Pelikan MK10 that needs a lot of love . I could use some help finding the parts I need to get this one up and running . Any help is appreciated

[TinaLe]

Oh and besides that Pelikan I also found a nice Pelikano school fountain pen from back when I was in school 1973 to 1983
; and I have about 5 Lamy pens. 3 safari and one clear demonstrator pen.

[Radonactionservices]

Oh and besides that Pelikan I also found a nice Pelikano school fountain pen from back when I was in school 1973 to 1983
; and I have about 5 Lamy pens. 3 safari and one clear demonstrator pen.

I remember the Pelikano school pen. Mine was red with a blue ink window and had a white and red Pelikan disc in the cap. This was my first pen with a converter. As I recall, these were really good pens.


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[Runnin_Ute]

A Parker Duofold Slim in jade with factory stub nib.

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[Blue Note]

Very nice. I have a made in Canada version of the one on the left. Looks identical to yours. It's in pristine condition, but needs a little work on the nib.

[An old bloke]

There's a new pen on my desk. It is the just arrived in today's post, Kaweco Special FP.

It is the only Kaweco I own (???for now???). It has an extra broad nib that seems to produce the same width line as any of my Conway Stewart broad nib pens. There are three things I like about it. One, it didn't cost me more than a meal out. Two it is sleek and solid. And three, its posting cap screws on, and the pen feels and writes like a 19th Century dip pen when the cap is posted.

It was an impulse buy, and one I'm happy one at that.

[Bold2013]

There's a new pen on my desk. It is the just arrived in today's post, Kaweco Special FP.

It is the only Kaweco I own (???for now???). It has an extra broad nib that seems to produce the same width line as any of my Conway Stewart broad nib pens. There are three things I like about it. One, it didn't cost me more than a meal out. Two it is sleek and solid. And three, its posting cap screws on, and the pen feels and writes like a 19th Century dip pen when the cap is posted.

It was an impulse buy, and one I'm happy one at that.

Have considered this one in the past. I think there is a titanium nib unit that would it too.

[KBeezie]

Picked these up at the local antique mall by the in-laws house. Was immediately recognizable from a distance what they were as I have a red Eversharp 5th Avenue with a 14k EF I restored at home.

No cracks in the barrel by the section thread. Caps still hold firm to the clutch ring. Nibs appear to be fine to medium firm, newer generation when they shrunk the nib and feed to get around the flow issue of the earlier iteration.

Figured I'd have to wait til I got home to do any restore but it seems like someone recently (in the last few years) already did that as there's still talc on the sacs, the sacs are springy without any stickiness, gumminess, or slow change, and a water test had no faint ink at all in either. Almost like they restored it and then just stored it. (They also had two Sheaffer vac-fil in carmine and black striated both with good clarity and good nibs, parker Vacumatic gold and 51 vac grey, also good nibs, and a waterman 100 year with some crazing, all the pens were under 50 but need filler restored).

But I guess these two guys mainly just going to need some fresh talc, polish, and clean on the exterior.

[FredRydr]

Picked these up at the local antique mall...Figured I'd have to wait til I got home to do any restore but it seems like someone recently (in the last few years) already did that....

You have to wonder why, after the owner restored them not so long ago, that the pens ended up at an antiques mall rather than being offered through fountain pen classifieds. Nice find. I don't see many of these.

[KBeezie]

Picked these up at the local antique mall...Figured I'd have to wait til I got home to do any restore but it seems like someone recently (in the last few years) already did that....

You have to wonder why, after the owner restored them not so long ago, that the pens ended up at an antiques mall rather than being offered through fountain pen classifieds. Nice find. I don't see many of these.

Would probably require history of the owner (or previous owner if they are no longer among us). The 7 or so pens in the case for that booth were what I would call a currated selection. Not just a mash of name brands and third tier, and unlike many I find, all the nibs didn't show signs of abuse.

They were also placed on their own glass shelf just laying there away from other items.

But the tags were not accurately descriptive, seeing these 5th avenues restored but the tags being vague makes me think the person selling is not the same as the person who cared for them. Like calling both the Parker 51 and gold Vacumatic a "Parker Blue Diamond". Or these Sheaffers.



None of them were over 45$ , the two 5th avenues I got for 25 without haggling. The Waterman 100 year and the two parkers were 45 and the above Sheaffer 35 each. I didn't get them because I don't have my own means of restoring either the vac fill or the Vacumatic. And the crazing on the tail of the Waterman is something I don't want near my other celluloids.

[FredRydr]

The two Triumph Vac-Fills would have come home with me. :-)

[KBeezie]

Can always get em for you during tomorrow's 20% off the entire mall sale.