Money is a little tight, and I have been trying to pare down my collection some. So I thought I would put this one up for sale. Stayed up late Friday night taking pictures and getting it ready.

But I mentioned I was going to sell it to my kids (age 5 and 8) and was told it was too pretty to sell. What can you do when your 5-year old says, perfectly, "I really like that pattern. You shouldn't put it up for sale."

So it goes back in the collection, and will probably make a great graduation gift for one of them.



John

It IS pretty, and is DOES have a nice pattern! It temps even me, and I've been pretty solid for some time about no new pens...

- R

Good decision, John. I probably would have tried to buy it. You saved me.

See, there you have it! You can always justify buying or keeping pens as future heirlooms. Now who can argue that point when you have little angels looking up at you

Your pen is lovely.

Kind regards,

Mary Burke

Hi,

That's a nice looking pen much too nice to sell when you can pass it on to your kids.

Andy

Seems to me the personal value of your (very nice) pen has just over-shot any financial value it might have had, not only in the giving but for the recipient too.

Surely there is something else you can sell, from your garage perhaps.


Greg

No garage, but, yes, a number of other pens to sell. I am probably over 200 pens and need to weed down quite a bit, and keep more with my focus - which, I might ad, is not CS. In fact, I have had to keep a little mantra handy "I do not collect Conway Stewart" repeated over and over again, especially after any sighting of green herringbone. . .

And I suspect my kids may have had a similar response to a reasonably pretty Wearever. In fact, I have a cheap green-hatched Champion with an Arnold nib that would probably get the same response. If I let them decide, I probably wouldn't pare down my collection that much at all - and it is hard to say how they will feel about in the 10-13 years between now and graduation. But somehow I think that they will love it.

Note I was not proposing to sell my Green-with-gold 84/27 pen and pencil set!

But, yes, this does move it back into the "keeper" section. It was on the line to begin with, so it didn't take much to move it back.

John

That looks like a CS 58 to me, John. But the nib isn't a Duro nib. What model is that pretty pen?

Peace,

Phroneo

CS 73.

John