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    Default Unusual pen photos

    Post photos of your pens using unusual angle, props, whatever that exercise your creativity.

    Let's start with this:

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    Default Re: Unusual pen photos

    JUXTAPOSITION




    SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED


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    Default Re: Unusual pen photos

    Cleaning...

    Cleaning.jpg

    Mirrored...

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    Helix

    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Helix

    Hi,
    Have you cut out a part of that pen to show the screw thread? Interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FreeLance View Post
    Have you cut out a part of that pen to show the screw thread? Interesting.
    No. The pen is complete and assembled. I have it laying on a tray made of card stock, similar to the trays in a pen storage case, and I cut out a narrow rectangle the length of the portion of the barrel that is transparent*. Underneath the tray is an LED light. I turned the lights off in the room, placed the pen and took a pic with my phone of the light coming through the barrel.

    What you see are helical lines in the celluloid, which is "wrapped", forming the spiral. The line in the middle is the steel rod of the plunger.

    *I put the asterisk by the term transparent because, like many celluloid pens of this era, the material has ambered quite a bit; you don't get nearly the effect if you just hold it up to the ambient daylight, and if the barrel had ink in it you wouldn't see anything at all. It is true ambering, not stained inside, so it isn't reversible. However, taking this shot does show the interesting construction of the pen.*
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by FreeLance View Post
    Have you cut out a part of that pen to show the screw thread? Interesting.
    No. The pen is complete and assembled. I have it laying on a tray made of card stock, similar to the trays in a pen storage case, and I cut out a narrow rectangle the length of the portion of the barrel that is transparent*. Underneath the tray is an LED light. I turned the lights off in the room, placed the pen and took a pic with my phone of the light coming through the barrel.

    What you see are helical lines in the celluloid, which is "wrapped", forming the spiral. The line in the middle is the steel rod of the plunger.

    *I put the asterisk by the term transparent because, like many celluloid pens of this era, the material has ambered quite a bit; you don't get nearly the effect if you just hold it up to the ambient daylight, and if the barrel had ink in it you wouldn't see anything at all. It is true ambering, not stained inside, so it isn't reversible. However, taking this shot does show the interesting construction of the pen.*

    I see! Thank you for the help. Interesting - again.

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    - Will
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    Largest pen stand...?


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    Hi,

    harvest of 2019... :-)

    Swan_1042h.jpg

    Swan_1042i.jpg

    Mabie Todd Swan 1041 (green, medium flex nib) and 1042 (blue, fine semiflex nib) and the last mirabelles of the year.
    These mirabelles (Mirabelle de Nancy, a very old plum relative) are some of the sweetest and most aromatic fruits when harvestet late.

    Best
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    Last edited by SchaumburgSwan; September 20th, 2019 at 07:08 PM.
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    That's a beauty ...

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    I posted this a while ago and the responses were not what I expected.
    Disclaimer: no cats or pens were hurt during the taking of this photograph.

    Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk

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    Quote Originally Posted by NDAzone View Post
    ...
    Disclaimer: no cats or pens were hurt during the taking of this photograph.
    That's good to know. :-)

    What does the cat think?
    There's a hole in the pen - I'll wait for something to come out...

    Best
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    Almost still-life -like.

    Took it to document the restoration of the pen.
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    No caption necessary...

    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    No caption necessary...
    NICE ONE, JON!


    Well-played!
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    I love my Meisterbrook.

    IMG_2673.jpeg

    This was the only prototype that made it out of the Esterbrook corporate office without a violent end. The drawings and remainder of the prototypes were snatched curbside by one Esther Brook diverting them from the back seat of the company patent lawyer's Cadillac on the streets of Cherry Hill. Esther's Kaiser-Fraiser raced to the old factory in Camden, and she burned all the prototypes on the roof, thereby preventing the filing of a design patent for the new Meisterbrook range.

    Esther later turned up in Hamburg with the drawings, but the German authorities in Hamburg refused to cooperate in an extradition of Esther, so the entire project collapsed. This is the only artifact that remains from this important event in fountain pen history. It writes beautifully. I never post it.
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