Double Nibbed Pens

[mr dodo]

Hi everyone,

 

For a few months now I've been lusting after double-ended pens such as those below:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1420660867__doublepen_zps3ca7d935.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/149318x.jpg

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/2-JK-DH_zps2bf16334.jpg

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/post-114364-0-55940000-1413064251.png

 

I'm aware of the Edison Double Ended Pen and the Italix Profession, but they're a little outside of my price range. I know that some double nibbed pens are available from Indian retailers, but I can't find any with an online presence. How would someone outside of India go about obtaining one? Is it even plausible? Are there any double nibbed pens I should be aware of that I'm not?

 

Thank you in advance for your replies, you lovely FPNers, you.

[Kiaxa]

Visconti Alchemy if you are willing to pay out your nose

[mr dodo]

Visconti Alchemy if you are willing to pay out your nose

 

Wow that's an extravagant and ridiculously expensive pen. Beautiful, but I can't even manage a fortieth of that kind of money. Thank you for showing me that - it's good to know.

[jar]

Double nib pens were pretty common for many years but never successful or a major presence; always more the oddity.

[rwilsonedn]

You might check with ASA Pens. I don't see a double-nib pen on the site right now, but he has been known to be most helpful to shoppers outside India.

ron

[mr dodo]

Double nib pens were pretty common for many years but never successful or a major presence; always more the oddity.

 

That's what I've come to understand too - but as someone who always uses 2 pens with 2 inks (one for the bulk of the writing and one for annotations) they just seem so convenient. Plus (to me at least) they look really cool. It's a shame that, as you say, they've never been successful or popular in the mainstream, because it's making either very tricky or very expensive to get hold of.

 

You might check with ASA Pens. I don't see a double-nib pen on the site right now, but he has been known to be most helpful to shoppers outside India.

ron

 

Thank you - that's some super advice - and I appreciate the link. I'll fire them an email

[infected]

This is another example of Small Pen Factory from Poland.

 

Double nib pen:

 

http://www.pmarcinski.pl/774/

[mr dodo]

This is another example of Small Pen Factory from Poland.

 

Double nib pen:

 

http://www.pmarcinski.pl/774/

 

Ooooh - that's lovely. Thank you very much for that, that might be my favourite example of a double pen that I've seen so far.

[jar]

 

That's what I've come to understand too - but as someone who always uses 2 pens with 2 inks (one for the bulk of the writing and one for annotations) they just seem so convenient. Plus (to me at least) they look really cool. It's a shame that, as you say, they've never been successful or popular in the mainstream, because it's making either very tricky or very expensive to get hold of.

 

 

They were always a niche item or curiosity; for example accountants liked them for ledger work, students thought they were neat, editors liked them for proofing but there were already two pen desk sets which filled the functional needs adequately. Most folk seldom if ever used multiple colors of ink.

[infected]

 

Ooooh - that's lovely. Thank you very much for that, that might be my favourite example of a double pen that I've seen so far.

 

This is the presentation of the double nibbed pen.

 

Unfortunately it is made in Polish language only.

 

But you can see in the real how the pen looks like.

 

[jsolares]

There's also models like this zerollo which had the two nibs on the same end.

 

[Azuniga]

You can add Colorado, (Italian) a pen with two nibs on the same end but different than Zerollo since the body of the pen is divided in two and to fill it, it opens as if you had scissors in your hand...

[mr dodo]

You can add Colorado, (Italian) a pen with two nibs on the same end but different than Zerollo since the body of the pen is divided in two and to fill it, it opens as if you had scissors in your hand...

 

 

There's also models like this zerollo which had the two nibs on the same end.

 

 

These two pens are genius and now you've got me really wanting them - such clever designs - but they are so expensive!

Edited September 24, 2015 by mr dodo

[Azuniga]

mr. dodo

 

Zerollo & Colorado are expensive, no doubt, but mainly hard to find ! !

[Alexcat]

Mr Pen do a double ender, in red, blue, or yellow.....around £50 I think.....

 

Alex