Does anyone have one of these in the Business size and if so what are you thoughts.

Thanks

Philip

Wow Philip,I never heard of this pen until I read this thread.
It looks really interesting.Its a piston filler,its very beautiful and made of Ebonite.
How much does it goes for ?

Wow Philip,I never heard of this pen until I read this thread.
It looks really interesting.Its a piston filler,its very beautiful and made of Ebonite.
How much does it goes for ?
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I don't know Amir. I have been trying to find that out but so far any sites that have it all seem to be sold out.

Philip

See Deirdre's post here for one of the rollers. The body is the same basically, just the colors are different. Beautiful pen..



http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...9&hl=marlen

I have one of these. I purchased it several years ago. It has a medium nib that is on the broad side. It's comfortable enough for me, though I understand some people have trouble with the location of the threads on the section, i.e., the threads are somewhat sharp and are situated where one's fingers might grip the pen. The only problem with mine is that it skips on the initial downstroke. I had a nibmeister work on it. It still skips on the downstroke. A friend advised me that this is a common problem with the Atellan Tales series of pens, of which the Pappus is one. He suggested replacing the feed with one scavenged from a vintage pen. That is what he did with his Atellan Tales pen, a Buccus, and he no longer had the problem with skipping on the downstroke. I do not have a spare feed, so I make do. Aside from that skipping problem, the pen is an excellent writer. One time I left it inked and forgot about it. I picked it up about four months later, and it still started up right away--with an initial skip on the downstroke, of course, but except for that, it wrote very well.

Thank you for that.Am I right in thinking that the price was a bit more than was quoted in Deirdre's post on the RB?

Philip

I believe the business (smaller) size originally went for around $300-350, and the magnum was closer to $500. I'd like a Maccus FP some day.

I almost spit out my coffee when I saw the Giardino Italiano page with these pens.
First off, they are beautiful, and "ebonite" is a magic word for me anyway.
But the descriptions!..



"Yellow for PAPPUS
old tight-fisted, lecherous fool."


Personally, I would want the deep green one:


"Green is for MACCUS
ridiculous and extravagant"

Is this from the same stock of ebonite used by Stipula? Has to be, because the olive and deep-green look identical to the colours used on the Saturno...

No, it's not the same. The color is more dramatic, and Stipula used several aqua ebonite stocks.



My Maccus (rollerball) is on the left, and the Saturnos are the two rightmost aqua pens. The ones second and fourth from the left are also Stipulas.

Interesting. I've seen that image of yours before of course, but did not recognise the Maccus from it on the Giardino Italiano website. Yes, the Stipula Saturno ebonite looks pretty different in a side-by-side comparison.

The main difference as I see it, is that the Stipula is striped, whereas the Marlen has "wood-rings" elements.

Which do you like better? Speaking of just the ebonite and craftsmanship quality, not how the pens write.

I had a business sized Baccus FP. It wrote very well with no skipping problem. It was a lovely pen, but it was about a Pelikan M-600 size and, somehow, just too small for my hand. Maybe it was a combination of the pen's physical size and its shape. I traded the pen with the intention of getting the larger size, but I never got around to it.

I still have the Maccus, having sold the Baccus several years ago. Both of mine have been the Magnum sized pens. The have been good reliable pens. The clip is a bit still. The cap take several turns to remove. There is a blind cap that has to be removed for filling. The nib section does have an unusual design and the threads are present. Overall it is a nice pen but somewhat rare these days. IIRC I got mine used about a year ago without boxes/papers for around 175 USD.

I got a message back from a dealer in Italy that said that he just sold the last one he had on 3/7/2008 for 80 Euros.
Always nice to have yet another pen to search for.

Philip