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I found all of these plus some Cross and other Sheaffer ball points and pencils yesterday at a yard sale.

A Sheaffer set, two other Sheaffer pens, two Parker 51s, a Parker 61, A parker 51 special, a Parker 75,

and my favorite a Parker 51 special set with a gold nib, new in the box. Not a bad group for $6 total.

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Remember that day well for it may not come again anytime soon! Congratulations on a superb find! Enjoy the pens!

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Congrats on your findings, no need to bet on the lottery anymore, you wasted all your luck on these (just kidding ;) ).

 

R.

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

 

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

 

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That truly is amazing. I don't know how many yard sales I've been to with no pens at all for sale. So many in fact, I've given up on them as a waste of time. It looks like I'll be wasting a little more time. Enjoy your booty. (You know what I mean.)

 

Larry

 

Looking for a black SJ Transitional Esterbrook Pen. (It's smaller than an sj)

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Wow. Now, THATS good luck. Can you choose a Texas or México lottery number for me? i will pay it and will give you a 10% of the prize. Seriously, congrats.

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You got robbed.. in broad daylight!! :yikes:

 

I feel for you. So i will take all these pens off your hand for $10. What's better, i will pay for the shipping too and pocket some good pen karma in the process. PM your PayPal info :P

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quite a score:) congrats on this one:)

 

J

"Writing is 1/3 nib width & flex, 1/3 paper and 1/3 ink. In that order."Bo Bo Olson

"No one needs to rotate a pen while using an oblique, in fact, that's against the whole concept of an oblique, which is to give you shading without any special effort."Professor Propas, 24 December 2010

 

"IMHO, the only advantage of the 149 is increased girth if needed, increased gold if wanted and increased prestige if perceived. I have three, but hardly ever use them. After all, they hold the same amount of ink as a 146."FredRydr, 12 March 2015

 

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Very nice find! Enjoy them all.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Nice haul you got there. :puddle: You *do* realize that you have probably most assuredly just won the "Sumgai of the Month" award.... Stuff like this never happens to me. :wallbash:

Sigh. I stuck my nose in at an estate sale this afternoon and all I saw was a sterling silver body mechanical pencil in sufficiently poor condition I didn't bother to even ask the price.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I luck out at garage sales once in a while, but so far never a haul like that. Congrats.

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So far I've had better luck with kitchen knives than pens at yard sales. Congratulations on your find.

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Well to be fair, I have to admit that these pens are not all in perfect shape. Most will need new insides, except for the 51 special set and some have a small dent or irregularity including the 61 which has a cracked shell, but for the price I am very happy. Not that I would ever do it, but I think the gold in the nibs is worth more than I paid for the lot. A lot of the other ball points and pencils had the logos of Esso and Exxon, so I am sure they were originally give aways.

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