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Wow Onion, you certainly have me beat. Between my wife and I we have:

 

3 Carene Deluxe

1 Blue (M nib)

2 Black (F and M nib[which has a Binderized right-footed oblique])

1 Silver Plated (M nib)

1 Cobalt Blue Phileas (M nib)

 

Inkdesigner

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Ah, I don't have as many as I would like.

 

I own:

 

2 Phileas (M and F) -- Loaner pens for "can I try that"

1 Expert II, Med nib, copper finish

1 Liaison Orange Ebonite, M nib

 

I hope to own:

 

Carene Broad (maybe the Islands version)

Edson Broad, Ruby if that bank robbery is successful.

 

I'm very happy with my WM pens. The Liaison is almost always in rotation.

 

--Roy

The Carene Broad nib is a dream to write with. I use that for signatures all the time.

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2 Kulturs with fine point

Maestro(also called 1900 I believe)

52 1/2v--small pen with great flex

Crusader with open nib (late 40's)

Taperite Stateleigh (late 40's)-fantasic nib

a black no-name model from 1943 or so-another wonderful nib

Skywriter-from Canada

an inexpensive school pen made in France

 

Very happy with each. I haven't had any higher-end modern Watermans though.

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Only one in my stable right now: a grey marbled Phileas with a smooth fine nib.

 

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I like vintage hard-rubber Watermans. The one I use most is a mottled red-black eyedropper #12 circa 1918 that I got from David Nishimura's site. It has a long, fine medium-flex nib. I like the shape of the pen, thin and elegant. I use World War II era Waterman's blue-black ink in it that I buy on eBay. I also have a huge#16 PSF, an early lever-filler with a No. 6 flex nib that is just a beautiful writer. I wish my handwriting were worthy of it. It writes superfine to medium-broad and even a scrawler like me can pretend to some elegance with it. You can draw a thick stroke and tail off to a hairline. It's nothing much to look at, a "user's pen," as they call it, but what a writer. Noodler's black is great with it, if you wait a good while for it to dry. It lays down a dense, wet line.

 

I also have a Waterman #14 POC eyedropper with a fine medium-flex nib that I fill with my mixture of Noodler's black and brown, trying to mimic the look of the Walker's Copperplate iron-gall ink that I sometimes use with a dip pen. And at the Washington Pen Show this August I bought from Joel Hamilton a wonderful #52 lever-filler with a flexible medium oblique nib. It's new old stock, with the original $2.75 price tag on it, and the nib has a real sharp snap to it on the page.

 

There's nothing like those old nibs, made in an age when people valued penmanship.

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Now here's a forum I can really dip my nib into. Hmmm. :blink:

At last look I have:

A Sapphire Edson with a medium nib, and a green broad nib section that I'm now using.

Orange Liaison medium nb,

Purple Philieas

Green and clear Kultur demos.

A strange skinny Waterman with a gold medium nib and a funky corrugated finger rest.

A woodgrain 52

A 52 ringtop ripple

A 52 BHR

A lovely English W3

One purple Carene with a medium nib

One silver plated Meridian Carene with a Broad nib.

Oops forgot about my Black Emblem pen. A vintage beauty.

Yoiks also forgot about my lovely 94 red steel? set.

Taperite,

Ivory Charleston

:blush:

 

Hmmm, I think I'll spend some time looking at my collection :)9

 

In rotation Silver Carene, Liaison, and Edson.

 

IMHO the modern Watermans are incredible pens.

 

(not responsible for any content or spelling because of pain meds)

 

Karin

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2 - C/F, one a "cheapie" and one a lovely GP Barleycorn with a to-die-for BB nib (thanks DWL!)

1 - Ideal No. 7, my grandfather's pen, with a Blue nib

1 - Ideal No. 12, RMHR, with an artist's nib (wet noodle XXXF)

2 - Ideal No. 12-1/2VS "Baby", one chased and one not

1 - Ideal No. 24, with a semiflex nib

1 - Ideal No. 45, a Frankenpen actually, very late with an earlier cap

7 - Ideal No. x52, assorted, featuring my pre-1923 452 and its BB factory stub

7 - Taperite, all kinds of interesting things

8 - X-Pen, one GF cap and seven Juniors, in assorted colors

 

I've played with lots of modern Watermans, just never had a strong inclination to own them (except for a green Philéas that got me going on vintage pens but is no longer mine).

 

Oh, and there's the 51V that I just won on the 'Bay. I haven't seen it yet, but it's mine for better or for worse. <_<

 

And I completely forgot my Lady Patricia until I looked at Elaine's posting below!

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/ladypat_mossagate.jpg

 

(Edited to add 51V; edited again to ad Lady Patricia)

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I've mentioned in another thread that Waterman pens from the first ~50 years of production comprises a large portion of my collection. A few of the bigger or key 'areas':

- 15-20 eyedroppers: 12's, 14's, a 16, several earlier models

- Most of the 5x models, in a variety of bhr, ripple, or woodgrain,

with a special fondness for the 51V and the 56V

- 2 Standard InkVue's

- 6 92's and 4 92V's

- 5 94's

- 10 Lady Patricians (3 are Ink vue models)

- 7's in Red ripple (red nib) and Emerald Ray

- Turquoise Patrician set, which is the prize of my collection

 

Best regards, greg

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

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Two--- Phileas, a green and blue

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." Satchel Paige, Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher

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I have a Hemisphere in the Red Marble Lacquer and an Ici Et La in khaki.

 

11/28/06 - Added a red Phileas and a blue Phileas.

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Richard, I want to thank you for restoring that #16 pen I mentioned in my previous post. When I bought it, it lacked a pressure plate and was oxidized brown. You brought it back to the world of the living, along with half a dozen or so of my other early pens.

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Let's see...

 

1 Carene

1 Expert

1 Expert II

2 Charlestons

4 Hemispheres

 

Like 'em all! :)

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Pelikan M200 "Citroenpers" (14C-585 M), Diamine Monaco Red

Pelikan M200 "Citroenpers" (14C-585 F), Diamine Prussian Blue

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1 unrestored Ideal 12 1/2 that belonged to my grandmother

1 restored Ideal 52 BCHR -Richard, thank you

1 restored British W5 - Richard, thank you

and 1 green Phileas

 

The working pens are all fun, and someday I will get the 12 1/2 restored for my daughter. It is a tiny, beautiful pen.

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A strange skinny Waterman with a gold medium nib and a funky corrugated finger rest.

I have a green skinny Waterman as above but I don't know what it's called. Any ideas? I've just bought a Waterman Carene, marine amber, but I'm not allowed to use it until my birthday.

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