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very nice collections of demonstrators :thumbup:

Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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Pilot Custom Heritage 92

 

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TWSBI 580

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Wow, there are some gorgeous pens in here. I sure love me some demonstrators.

 

 

TWSBI 580

http://imageshack.com/a/img540/3111/ayyQDO.jpg

 

Visvamitra, what's the orange/vermillion ink in that TWSBI? It's striking, to say the least!

 

As for my own photos:

 

http://i.imgur.com/mqMQNbI.jpg?1

 

This was my first time sticking black ink in a demonstrator--I have a bunch of rich, gem-like ink samples that I love to use, but my default black-ink pen, my Pilot Metro, lost its cap and is headed to Pilot HQ for replacement, so I loaded up my Lamy here with Parker Quink. I was surprised by how good it looked, even without those rich colors!

 

http://i.imgur.com/IYPVpPY.jpg?1

 

My TWSBI 580, sporting a barrel of the luscious Diamine Sherwood Green.

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Wow. As someone who never got over the "clear" thing from the 80s, I have coveted demonstrators since I first saw one... Back then it was a Pelikan (too rich for my college student blood), but these days I only see them with gold fittings and I prefer silver, so I've sort of pushed that one out of my mind. The TWSBIs look very nice, though, without breaking the bank! Loving this thread!

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Gotta love a Sailor

http://www.maryhatay.com/Mark/Fountain-Pens/Mixed-Pens/i-kk5Ns9c/0/XL/Sailor%20kop%201%20sig-XL.jpg

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I'm glad visvamitra revived this thread. I do like demonstrators.

"One can not waste time worrying about small minds . . . If we were normal, we'd still be using free ball point pens." —Bo Bo Olson

 

"I already own more ink than a rational person can use in a lifetime." —Waski_the_Squirrel

 

I'm still trying to figure out how to list all my pens down here.

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I have two demonstrators - the Custom 3776 and the Franklin-Christoph 02. After I bought the 02 I became hooked on demonstrators and bought the 3776 shortly after.

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Just stumbled across this interesting thread – so many beautiful pens! Below are some photos of an unusual demonstrator – a Montblanc 139 – presented here some time ago by Maxpens; I hope he won't mind my reposting them:

 

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I'm sorry to say that the pen doesn't belong to me. :crybaby:

Écrire c’est tenter de savoir ce qu’on écrirait si on écrivait. – M. Duras

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