Helloo !!! Impressed by the interest of the foruns, I have decided to register. I collect mainly low value european brands, and more often German ones.

rustynib

Welcome to our community, Rusty (can I call you Rusty?)

Tell us more about your collection. Are your pens modern or vintage, for instance? What are your favourites?

Ray

Hello Ray. Rusty is alright. My pens are mainly from the forties and back. Found some stoked in a drawer at home, a 1930's parker junior vacumatic, a Kaweco Dia and a Luza from the 1920's (it's a portuguese brand). That got me started. Nevertheless my interest went to meduim to low value items, maily beacuse they are cheaper, but thing get sometimes out of hand...

rustynib

Welcome!!!

Hello and welcome to FPN! See you around.

Rusty -

So ironic. I will be in Lisbon next week, and was getting ready to ask if there were any good pen shops in Lisbon. Do you know of any you would point me to?

Hello Kendall.

I dont have knowledge of "Topnotch" shops, specific for pens, in Lisbon. Some of the main malls have FP sections (like "El corte inglés").
There is a Montblanc shop and a Dunhill shop too.

Neverthe less, I recomended a visit to:

for vintage

Papelaria Progresso / Rua do Ouro, 151 - 155 in Lisbon (display with vintage items mainly american brands);


for new stuff

CANETAS & COMPANHIA - Piso 0. Nº Loja: 0.086 Colombo Shopping Center (near Estádio da Luz/Benfica)

Good Hunt!!!

rustynib

welcome to the board rusty

Welcome Rusty. Always nice to see another pen nut

Welcome!

Benvindo!!!

Hello, rustynib. I'm new to the pen game myself and I always enjoy knowing there are others out in the world who share in this obsession.

Welcome! i have a friend from macau, and i rmemeber her telling me she had to learn portugese.

For strange it may seem , Macau was administred by portuguese from, at least the 1600's until recent reintegration on PRofC. Portuguese I think was mandatory (!!??) but not everibody in Macau spoke it. Maybe the naturals from Macau did, but not the chinese naturals.

rustynib

Do you know any good fado singers? I absolutely love that style of music. Besides Portuguese sounds better than Spanish or French in my estimation. Hey, since you brought up Macao, what's the Portuguese community over there like? Same goes for Goa.

I should ask her more about it, but i think she just had to take a class, whether it was manditory or not, i dont remember. All i know about macau is that you can gamble there, dont know much about the community. They have "portuguese" egg tarts there that were really yummi =D

Welcome!

Welcome to the forums!!!

Welcome aboard to the best place on the Web for fountain lovers around the world!

Coming again to the subject Macau

There is a strongly anchored portuguese community in Macau, that stayed after PRC took over. Macau is a terrytory mainly compreending 3 locations/islands (macau itself, taipa and coloane) - macau is a modern city, like a small time rustic HongKong, Taipa is were Macau is spreading, and Coloane is for romantics.
The live in the city can go from quiet and homely with paradisiac holidays in the marvelous environements nearby-Thai, and other Indic or Pacific resorts or can be hell if You go into the right directions.

There is a Hollywod movie with Ava Gardner and the Mitchum called Macao... /:)

In Goa You have still a very strong portuguese cultural presence, but is more likely that You seen other europeans and americans then portuguese. There is though a strong lineage of portuguese descendents. Portugal as administrative power was taken out of Goa in the end of the fifties or beggining of the sixties, I think... With the Goa techno sound and culture lots of europeans and americans took again the path to the beaches nearby Goa .

rustynib

Hi Rustynib; hope you have some Lamys in your collection.

Hi Rusty, welcome!

Welcome by a FPN'er from Portugal as well, Porto.

Howdy Rusty and welcome board the friendliest place on the Web for pen collectors.