How many pens do you have? I started in november and have 12/13 pens right now....
How many pens do you have? I started in november and have 12/13 pens right now....
TAYLORPUPPY (July 14th, 2019)
It changes frequently but at the moment I have around 35 pens. It's not a collection by any definition, just pens that suit my hand or have some sentimental value.
dfo (July 14th, 2019)
I have currently around 30, including some that I don't care for that much and will sell.
Sometimes I'll get an interesting looking (or sounding) pen on an online auction (mostly for cheap) and some are keepers, while others aren't
Eventually, I'd like to get it down to maybe 10 pens that I absolutely love, but I'm not there yet. Still have a few more to try out...
dfo (July 14th, 2019)
I have 62 at last count. I called a halt to it about a year ago and started collecting wrist watches and currently have 14. I blame it on some kind of rogue collector gene.
Currently 44 if I counted right. I am going to attempt to cap it at 50 for the year.
I have several I don't love that I would like to cull and some pens I bought as giveaways that I will move on to new homes. I have my eye on a few next pen models to replace those... Rinse and repeat.
Yes that's right, Will.
prob over 150 easily.................i've been collecting for a long time- however i am a user
The secret of getting ahead is getting started-- Mark Twain
Including dip pens and a couple of disposable Varsities, about 20. Counting just non-disposible fountain pens, 13.
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. — Horace
(What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke’s on you.)
Uncountable multitudes!
(Ok, I'm just not going to count them all right now. Quite a few. There are 27 in my immediate vicinity).
amk (March 4th, 2019)
Holy crap, make that +1... 45 pens. I just found my Safari Petrol that went missing last July!
You have twelve thirteenths of a pen?
I have two cases each of which holds 24 pens. One has the modern pens I'm most likely to use, the other has my favorite vintage ones. Obviously, at least a few pens are not in these cases at any given time because they're being used.
But I have other cases. And the pens in them sometimes get used. Let's just say that the complete count is fairly high.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
Somewhere between a lot and an awful lot.
More than I need, but not as many as I want.
Probably in the 70s.
11.
I had more, but sold many and have been pairing things down to make way for The Big One™ that I am soon to acquire.
Ooooooo. Have you decided yet what your "Big One" will be?
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. — Horace
(What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke’s on you.)
calamus (February 27th, 2019)
I am too wiley to answer this question in a public forum. Because I know that anything I admit to here floats in cyberspace forever.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
TAYLORPUPPY (July 14th, 2019)
I lost count after the first one
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ethernautrix (February 28th, 2019)
I have come to the realization that all my pens are essentially aspects of the same pen, so: 'one'.
amk (March 4th, 2019), AzJon (March 1st, 2019), bebox (March 3rd, 2019), Empty_of_Clouds (February 28th, 2019), ethernautrix (February 28th, 2019), Kaputnik (March 1st, 2019), penwash (February 28th, 2019), SIR (July 14th, 2019)
That's pretty funny, catbert, so I'm going to have to appropriate it.
Aside from this I have seven pens, and that's not very likely to change much in the foreseeable future - though there is an inbound Wing Sung 698 (my new red ink pen, i.e. limited use), and an English Parker Duofold which, if working okay may just get sent to Pendelton Brown for a good stubbing!).
catbert (February 28th, 2019)
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