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    Default Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    The interview with Jasper Morrison in the first issue of Lamy specs contains the following exchange (emphasis mine):

    Q: Do you have a favourite in the Lamy range?
    A: As a long-term Lamy fan (I got my first Lamy when I was fourteen), I have good memories of some of the early designs. My absolute favourite was probably a transparent fountain pen with a screw fill mechanism in transparent orange, with some other internal parts in grey, I think. It’s extremely technical appearance was beautiful and it uniquely embodied my idea at the time of what a pen should be.


    Any idea which earlier Lamy he's talking about?

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    Sounds like a Lamy 99 demonstrator, but the 99 had a lime green not orange piston. There's one on https://www.penboard.de/shop/hlist/LA/MBVI/0

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    Default Re: Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    Quote Originally Posted by amk View Post
    Sounds like a Lamy 99 demonstrator, but the 99 had a lime green not orange piston. There's one on https://www.penboard.de/shop/hlist/LA/MBVI/0
    Thanks! That's more or less what I imagined from the description, though the gold trim undercuts the 'extremely technical appearance' for me. Perhaps a silver trim/orange piston variant existed?

    Someone over on FPN suggested a Lamy Vista with a Z24 converter, which is also plausible if a little disappointing. (I forget that the Safari/Vista counts as an old design now.)

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    Default Re: Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    Mystery solved, I think. Someone over on FPN suggested a Lamy 68 demonstrator.

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    Wow! that's a marvellous pen! I can see how Jasper Morrison would have fallen in love with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by amk View Post
    Wow! that's a marvellous pen! I can see how Jasper Morrison would have fallen in love with it.
    Yup, completely understandable.

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    Default Re: Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    Demonstrators look cool. Until someone puts ink in them.

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    Default Re: Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    Quote Originally Posted by FredRydr View Post
    Demonstrators look cool. Until someone puts ink in them.
    Then they look cooler...

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    Default Re: Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    Jasper Morrison?

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    Default Re: Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    Quote Originally Posted by SIR View Post
    Jasper Morrison?
    Designer — of the Lamy Aion in this context.

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    I wish this pen would remain hidden and forgotten. It is my grail pen...
    "Love is the final fight."

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    Default Re: Jasper Morrison's favourite Lamy?

    Quote Originally Posted by amk View Post
    Sounds like a Lamy 99 demonstrator, but the 99 had a lime green not orange piston. There's one on https://www.penboard.de/shop/hlist/LA/MBVI/0
    Here's a picture of mine:

    Lamy 99 Demonstrator by C.M.Z, auf Flickr


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