Vintage carry at work?

[fountainpenkid]

My 400 in black stripe finally failed on me today. I got it for a great deal, unrestored, at a pen show, and it happened to fill. Now the seal has finally failed (ink got all over my hands from leaking out of the piston knob) and it will need a new one.

[Mags]

Carrying a Parker 51 and Estie SJ this week.

[kaisnowbird]

Don't have as many vintage, but these babies go to my office regularly:
- Parker 51
- 2 Parker Vacumatics and
- Sheaffer's Snorkel (today).

[tandaina]

Almost all my pens are vintage. So that's what comes to work.

I rotate often but for about a year there has always been some sort of tortoise Pelikan in that rotation.

[KrazyIvan]

Before Christmas I had a Parker Vacumatic Major with me. Right now I only have modern pens inked.

[Kaputnik]

Vintage pens that I have used at work include various Esterbrooks, Parker Vacumatic, 21, and 51, Sheaffer Imperial IV and Admiral, and a number of others, now that I think of it. If it's not too delicate or finicky, then it's suitable for work.

Of course, I watch my fountain pens like a hawk, and don't leave them lying around. There are well meaning but thoughtless people in any office who think of pens as some sort of communal property.

[ethernautrix]

Just added to rotation:

Sheaffer Tuckaway (Tucky!)
Parker 51 Ariel Kullock (Is it vintage or not?)
And an amazing celluloid Sheaffer Flat-Top that I've had for several years and knew it had a great nib but didn't use cos it's a lever-filler, wow!


Oh for goodness's sake, how could I have forgotten the Hardtmuth Studio? Doi!

[Mr. JW]

My work rotation usually consists of:

Parker Super 21
Esterbrook J
Sheaffer Imperial

Sometimes I'll take my Craftsman pen/pencil set, but usually that stays on the desk. Pens always stay in pocket or hand. Too many curious people at work to leave things lying around.

[Spikey Mike]

My carry round pen is a battered old Parker 25 with the most amazingly smooth nib that I have ever come across ...

[axolotl66]

Parker 25 is a great pen, I have three of them and agree with your statement about the nib smoothness. Workhorse pen that seems indestructible!! Same goes for the J too. Lovely.
Graham

[ac12]

NONE

I do not trust that they will not be damaged or stolen.
What I take into the office are inexpensive "office pens" which are all somewhat modern; Pilot Metro, Baoer 388, or Parker 88.
And while my Esterbrooks are not expensive, they have screw caps. And as has been mentioned, people may/will try to PULL the cap, damaging the threads. So the Esterbrooks stay at home.

[mhosea]

I use any of my pens at work that are well-behaved for "pocket carry". On my desk are inexpensive pens, but in my pocket might be anything. Today it happens to be a Sailor Pro Gear Naginata Togi Medium-Fine with Sailor Sei Boku in it, but as for "vintage", a Sheaffer oversize Balance is common in my pocket, as is a Snorkel or Parker VS.

[txfz1]

During a meeting with the client, the client borrowed my managers pen; basically just reached over and grabbed the pen. It was a nice Waterman. He couldn't get it to start so he commenced to bang the nib against the paper. I looked at my manager and he had such a horrid look on his face. The nib was completely bent over. The client passed the pen back saying it was out of ink.The manager started stocking pilot varsities in the office which I also started to use. Now I've got a collection of FPs.

David

[ac12]

During a meeting with the client, the client borrowed my managers pen; basically just reached over and grabbed the pen. It was a nice Waterman. He couldn't get it to start so he commenced to bang the nib against the paper. I looked at my manager and he had such a horrid look on his face. The nib was completely bent over. The client passed the pen back saying it was out of ink.The manager started stocking pilot varsities in the office which I also started to use. Now I've got a collection of FPs.

David

Add that to the clients bill "replacement pen"

That is the kind of situation why I don't want my good stuff in the office...people that don't know what a fountain pen is and how to use it. shudder

[kaisnowbird]

During a meeting with the client, the client borrowed my managers pen; basically just reached over and grabbed the pen. It was a nice Waterman. He couldn't get it to start so he commenced to bang the nib against the paper. I looked at my manager and he had such a horrid look on his face. The nib was completely bent over. The client passed the pen back saying it was out of ink.The manager started stocking pilot varsities in the office which I also started to use. Now I've got a collection of FPs.

David

Arhhhhhhhhhhhh~ Such horror! and so brutally barbaric! Thank goodness I don't have to deal with clients like this.

[ac12]

Kai
The problem is you could have BOSSES that are clueless about using a fountain pen.

[kaisnowbird]

Too true. My boss is very precious about his rollerball gel pen - I'm talking about the $5 variety - that he takes with him everywhere. The other day, we were working on a report together at his desk. At the end he had to attend a meeting, so he stood up and tried to grab my Parker Silver Vacumatic lying on top of my note book. I moved it out of his way and he stilled tried to grab it until I promptly protested: "Hey, get your own pen!". Off he went with his favourite skippy gel baby.

[Jerome Tarshis]

I've been out of "going to work" in an office five days a week for a long time. When I was doing that, and now when I sometimes do work in somebody else's office on a temporary basis, the everyday fountain pen would be a Parker 51 Aero and the backup pen, seldom needed, is a Parker Jotter ballpoint.

For working at home there is greater diversity of fountain pens and a little diversity of inks. In an office I want everything to look inconspicuous, wonderful conversation pieces need not apply, and I want everything to write well from the first downstroke.

[pengeezer]

Just added to rotation:

Sheaffer Tuckaway (Tucky!)
Parker 51 Ariel Kullock (Is it vintage or not?)
And an amazing celluloid Sheaffer Flat-Top that I've had for several years and knew it had a great nib but didn't use cos it's a lever-filler, wow!


Oh for goodness's sake, how could I have forgotten the Hardtmuth Studio? Doi!

Can you share a pic of the Hardtmuth? Those seem to be
a vintage pen that doesn't come up too often!


John

[pengeezer]

The vintage pens that I've carried to work in the past have been
an Omas 556F in grey pearl w/a springy nib; Waterman 92V in Nacre; 1938 Reticular Vac in black;
1940 Emerald Vac Maxima; 1936 Waterman Ink-Vue w/silver zig-zag pattern; 1980 Parker 75 in
silver plate barleycorn pattern; 1936 OS black Vac.Ooops--almost
forgot early 1950's Conway Stewart in black ice.

Also carry contemporary pens w/me too......


John