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Jinhao make a range of pens that, from their weight (70~110 g) would be so impractical as to be whimsical --

 

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzQxWDg1MA==/z/mEsAAOxycmBS4ThY/$_57.JPG

 

or

 

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTM0WDczOA==/z/2rMAAMXQsMZRkBoq/$(KGrHqV,!mEFGL75vEBTBRkBoqbJSQ~~60_3.JPG

 

 

I have one of these, below. I must try it with Kung Te-Cheng....

 

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjAwWDYwMA==/z/-UoAAMXQVD1SLe6e/$(KGrHqR,!rYFIKkNBNSFBSLe6emgMw~~60_3.JPG

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Hi,

 

There's some quite amazing pens [as sculpture] suggested in prior posts, but I really couldn't consider owning many of those, so for Ms I'm_So_Boring, it would be a functioning Sheaffer Snorkel Demonstrator.

 

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There's some quite amazing pens [as sculpture] suggested in prior posts, but I really couldn't consider owning many of those, so for Ms I'm_So_Boring, it would be a functioning Sheaffer Snorkel Demonstrator.

 

 

Ooo, that sounds cool.

 

I saw a demonstrator "54" Vacumatic filled: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203553724104866 (not sure that link will work) which was really cool. If you find one (hah!) you might consider it, too.

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A Waterman 420, I'd love one but I'd buy a car first. They're huge eyedropper pens so they'd take for ever to run dry and you can't fill them part way up. The 420 has the sterling silver overlay. :wub:

Just not practical.

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Without a doubt:

http://www.penporium.com/media/2b/a20792a1311c71cbb45c15_s.JPG

 

 

greg

Don't feel bad. I'm old; I'm meh about most things.

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This. Now if only I had an extra thirty grand....

http://www.omas.com/media/products/pens/big/O09A0070_Marte_stilo-aperta_2.jpg

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/Runnin_Ute/fpn_1424623518__super_pinks-bottle%20resized_zps9ihtoixe.png

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Something with a bulbous camo pattern or cow pattern...both speak to my unserious pen-self.

 

Or the Hello Kitty Sailor Sapporo mini. No pen does flaming fuschia like it!

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http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2562/3932421951_53566abae1_b.jpg

 

Third from the left is SO me. If only I had a few dozen thousand dollars to burn :(

 

I'm with you, I love these.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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http://zc77.de/bilder/B902159.jpg

 

Mike, you don't wish you owned these. :P

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

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I keep a photo of this one as my fantasy pen. I can't even imagine using it because it's just too expensive, I'd spend all my time worrying about using it.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/images/_nb_mediaFrames/186421yJWLW9REL.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The S. T. Dupont train pen with the matching stand that has the wheels and other details so it really looks like a choo-choo when you put the pen on the stand.

 

Way out of my price range at my current expectations.

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A choo choo? Really? I want it.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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$5,000

 

but look at the picture in some of the more expensive catalogs, or in PenWorld magazine - now I think it was PenWorld where I saw it, not a catalog

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Yeah, it can't compete with a real caboose, but darn I want to see it.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned my choice--the Pelikan M1000 Maki-e Raden Sunlight!

 

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Plus, nibs.com is giving a set of all the Edelstein inks with it for free, so choosing an ink is that much easier...

 

Not that I have the necessary spare $3500 or so...

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MB Copernicus has been on my birthday list for a long time, I don't ever think that I will ever really get one. In reality I could sell up some other pens and wait until one comes up, but it is in that borderline region where a pen becomes unaffordable as a pen... that and we need to eat.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. -Carl Sagan

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To be Honest, and no offense to fans of those pens, but many of the expensive pens just look chunky, uneven and aestheticly unappealing (to me).I would rather spend money on a simple yet elegant Japanese styl pen.. maybe something like a custom nakaya. Again, apologies to those who genuinely love the more blingy pens encrusted with precious metals.

 

Kev

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To be Honest, and no offense to fans of those pens, but many of the expensive pens just look chunky, uneven and aestheticly unappealing (to me).I would rather spend money on a simple yet elegant Japanese styl pen.. maybe something like a custom nakaya. Again, apologies to those who genuinely love the more blingy pens encrusted with precious metals.

 

Kev

 

None taken! I like variety in pens, I love my Sailor KOP as much as some of the more colourful special editions. The only turn off for me is the very glitzy pens, I find the MB Collodi to be too much sparkly metal for my taste. Each to their own :)

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