I am a fan of these pens and no one talks about this pen here.
Is it because it is so rare or not to be found easily or need more skills and tools to restore these marvelous witing instruments?
I am curious.
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I am a fan of these pens and no one talks about this pen here.
Is it because it is so rare or not to be found easily or need more skills and tools to restore these marvelous witing instruments?
I am curious.
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Ahriman4891 (September 30th, 2020), amk (October 3rd, 2020), damfino (March 24th, 2021), junglejim (October 3rd, 2020), Kaputnik (October 2nd, 2020), SchaumburgSwan (October 2nd, 2020), SIR (September 29th, 2020)
Cyril, gorgeous. You're killing me! I had two red and black mottled De La Rues, but I couldn't refuse the offers. :-)
Cyril (October 5th, 2020)
Exceedingly handsome pens but not common in the States, unless one goes to a pen show and a particular dealer has them as a focus. I always admire them when I read about them on UK site or, of course, in good pen books. Thank you for sharing this collection!
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Cyril (October 5th, 2020)
Thats a lovely flourish of Onotos Thank you
Probably some of my favourite vintage pens
Everthing looks better when the background is a photo by HCB.
Cyril (October 5th, 2020), Schaumburg_Swan (July 25th, 2023)
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
Very nice collection, I have only owned four, a K3 which I really liked despite the fact that the K series are meant to be uncool. A nice lattice barrelled pen which was wrecked by a pen repairer who is meant to be good with Onotos, and two others which were nothing special.
I would like one of the Onoto Henry Simpole overlays, that boat might have sailed.
Hi,
well, I know many say Onoto nibs are some of the finest ever, and i trust them...
Even as a MT Swan addict, more reviews of TDLR/Onoto pens and nibs are very interesting. :-)
Great to see your impressive collection. Here only one DeLaRue Junior Pen is at hand, nothing fancy, just a nice high quality student lever filler.
Best wishes
Jens
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Cyril (October 5th, 2020)
An original Magna, not one of the current ones with the faux-vacuum filling system, remains one of my "perhaps one day" pens...
Vintage. Cursive italic. Iron gall.
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silverlifter (October 2nd, 2020)
They are rather lovely pens. I find Onotos - and on one occasion two Onoto nibs, being used in dip pens! - in France occasionally, so presumably someone was importing them. I know Gold Starry started off importing Conway Stewarts; I wonder whether one of the other French manufacturers had a deal with Onoto at some point?
I found the hard rubber lever-filler De La Rues were about the same quality as Waterman's being manufactured at the same time. Being rarer made them special, but not better.
In the words of Paul Simon, you can call me Al.
amk (October 4th, 2020)
My Onto The La Rue " The Pen " series. Piston Plunger pens. They are the oldest series from 1905 and still beautiful writers. I am not a Flex pen writer but I am into SPENCERIAN AND American hand .
So the pens gives more potentials to write something similar closer scripts.
Out of These pens one in the right side is the new pen and it has a under and over feed. But this feed is very solid feed than the Swan under and over feed pens.
damfino (March 24th, 2021), Schaumburg_Swan (July 25th, 2023)
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