How Many?

[theshainun]

I was looking at my collection, and I found that I had more than I thought! I was interested to see how many fountain pens others on the forum own, my list came to:

 

Dunhill AD2000

Faber Castell-Tech Flex

Faber Castell-Silver Plated

Lamy 2000

Lamy Accent

Lamy Safari

Parker 45

Parker Frontier

Parker Jotter

Parker Sonnet

Parker Vector

Pelikan Level 1 x2

Pelikan Level 5

Pelikan M200

Pelikan Triari

Imitation Hero 100(I think)

 

I'm not sure if this type of topic has been done before, if it has please post the link!

 

Shaun

[John Cullen]

I'm taking the fifth on this one! JC

[Larry T]

I'm with John, my wife might be reading this...

 

Larry

[KCat]

i think the survey needs to be broadened considerably. 10-15, 16-20, 20-30, 30-50, 50-100, 100+

 

Scary but true. I think i'm in the 30-50 range. "think" - even scarier.

[Velma]

i think the survey needs to be broadened considerably. 10-15, 16-20, 20-30, 30-50, 50-100, 100+

 

Scary but true. I think i'm in the 30-50 range. "think" - even scarier.

I thought I had about 30, but in my last count, I realized I'd forgotten the Sheaffer No Nonsense pens, which brought my total up to about 45 or so, and I'm not counting the Osmiroid and Platignum calligraphy pens, either, or a bunch of no-name fountain pens I've accumulated... so I suspect my total is 60 or so. I really should count and check.

 

(And how do you count them if, say, you have pens with interchangeable nibs?)

[chris burton]

i think the survey needs to be broadened considerably. 10-15, 16-20, 20-30, 30-50, 50-100, 100+

I agree. The last time I counted, I had about seventy pens, but that is only the ones in my collection. I have a "few" more that I display, for sale, on my table at pen shows.

[Roger W.]

i think the survey needs to be broadened considerably. 10-15, 16-20, 20-30, 30-50, 50-100, 100+

 

I agree with the scale being extremely small - maybe redo the poll.

 

Roger W.

[OldGriz]

I am definately in the over 15 catagory, especially when you count the ones that I make... I am close to 15 on the ones I have bought over the last couple of months...

[Carrie]

I can safely relax, there's lots of people with a lot more pens than me.

My rather modest list consists of:

Modern

Parker Duofold Mosaic Centennial

Heros - 100, 616 and 330

 

Vintage

Conways Stewarts - 550, 84s, 75, 27 and 106

Parker - 61s, 51s, Duofold, Vacumatic, Ladys, Televisor

Sheaffer - Snorkel Clipper, Balance

Wahl-Eversharp Bantam

[memphislawyer]

im the person who marked one pen, by the way, lol

 

sam

[KCat]

im the person who marked one pen, by the way, lol

 

sam

1 is a good place to start. you know of course that once you start reading all these posts, the chances you'll still have only one pen greatly lessens.

[theshainun]

Can I edit the poll afterwards?

 

Shaun

[memphislawyer]

im the person who marked one pen, by the way, lol

 

sam

1 is a good place to start. you know of course that once you start reading all these posts, the chances you'll still have only one pen greatly lessens.

ive read that, and i am sure that there will be people who want to see me get a nice one, lol

 

already, i am slowing down and trying to write nicely. im thinking of selling one of my ballpoints to fund the purchase of a italic nib pen to see what that is like

 

sam

[chupie]

im the person who marked one pen, by the way, lol

 

sam

A month ago I didn't have any. You can see that you won't just have one for long

[French]

I'm up to 7 now. I just sent a check to Pam Braun for a Lamy 2000. I feel myself slipping farther down the slippery slope of fountain pen ownership

 

french

[TimButterfield]

I have only been at this for almost a year now. So, I am only up to about 30. I should have a decent sized collection in another year or two.

[Glenn-SC]

perhaps the pole should read:

 

... 100, 200, 300, 300+

 

I'm too lazy to count right now, but it's closer to 200 than 100.

[Apollo]

Well over 15.

 

So far:

 

Namiki Bamboo

Pilot Knight (silver)

Pilot Knight (navy blue)

Bexley Submariner Grande

Sailor 1911

Sailor 1911M

Lamy 2000

Lamy Studio

Lamy Safari (grey)

Lamy Safari (red)

Pelikan M250

Pelikan M215

Aurora Ipsilon

Ducati 1000

Waterman Charleston

Waterman Expert II

Waterman Phileas

Cross Apogee

Cross Century II

Cross Matrix

THINK Iceland

THINK Sahara

Conklin Duragraph

Sheaffer Prelude

Parker 21

Parker 45

Esterbrook J

Esterbrook LJ

Esterbrook SJ

Esterbrool CA101

Retro 51 Tornado (curacao)

Retro 51 Double Eight

Monteverde Invincia

Monteverde Regatta

Duke Mako

 

En route to moi: Hero 100 gold, Hero M616 red, Parker 21 teal, Reform Skywalker, Wality 52

Edited January 6, 2006 by Apollo

[Video11]

Nine, plus one more in the mail from Pendemonium. And to think this all started in October 2005 when I found my long forgotten Parker 75 in the back of a desk drawer.

 

Parker "51" Grey with Lustraloy Cap

Parker "51" Brown (or Maybe Burgundy) with Lustroloy Cap

Parker "61" Black with Gold Filled Rainbow Cap

Parker "75" Black Lacque with Gold Trim

Parker Inflection Black with Gold Trip

Parker Reflex Red Plastic

Parker Reflex Blue Plastic

Pilot Disposable Black with Blue Ink

Pilot Disposable Grey with Black Ink

 

Does not include the four Shaeffer Caligraphy pens I also found in the back of the desk.

[KCat]

Does not include the four Shaeffer Caligraphy pens I also found in the back of the desk.

i like how we find things to exclude in our lists...

 

I would exclude my Osmiroid and Pilot calligraphy pens..

 

my dip pens.

 

probably some others i can think of to exclude for some reason or another.