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Bought My Holy Grail Pen Today


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Hello pen people.


Newly registered after seeing the FPN Blue Pearl limited edition and wondering if it's still available. Figured I'd also say hello....


Short version: I spent crazy money today on my Holy Grail pen: Pelikan M910 Toledo.


Longer version:


I'm more of a fountain pen amateur, not a collector, just love fountain pens and putting a pen to paper. Bought my first FP in 2005, a Pelikan Souveran M600, sold it a couple years later and replaced it with the M805 whose size I prefer, what I'd call my favorite pen except for that Toledo that I've drooled over for about 10 years now.


Recently sold some items I wasn't using and built up the funny money stash. Three possibilities:


1. be responsible and pay bills

2. maximize the value by buying a few cheaper pens

3. cry once and buy what you love and don't tell people how much you spent, and use it daily, a real workhorse.


There have been only several occasions in the past when I've done #3 and have no regrets. So yeah you know what I did.


It arrives tomorrow. Its main diet will be Edelstein Olive Green but apparently that won't be available until ~2018, so I guess I'll feed it the 4001 Brilliant Brown that I have on hand. Nib is Fine because in my experience the Pelikan fine is more like a typical medium - this is about right for my tastes, especially with an everyday writer.


I'm crazy excited. Or maybe just crazy.


On second thought, there's no "maybe" about it.

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Great news. Enjoy it but without pictures (actually these days even with pictures) it never happened.

As soon as it arrives, I'll post pics.

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Andrew, Congrats and welcome to FPN!

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

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Congratulations! I am eagerly awaiting the pictures of your new pen.

 

-David (Estie).

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Congratulations!

 

I've never been able to sell a pen.

 

Just buy.

 

Now it takes a year to rotate through all of my pens.

 

I admire your discipline, and am glad to see you can give yourself an occasional reward.

Never argue with drunks or crazy people.
 

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Welcome to FPN from Pittsbugh. Congratulations on getting your grail pen (me, I'd have to win the lottery to be able to afford mine -- a Yard-o-Led Viceroy Victorian, Standard size).

Of course you know that sooner or later you'll find another pen to lust after and that will become your *new* grail pen.... (My other grail was a Parker 51 in Plum, and I lucked into a Demi sized one with -- I think -- a medium nib, which was user grade a few years ago for a reasonable price on eBay :wub: :bunny01: ; but oh my, that Viceroy Victorian -- it's just SO beautiful... :puddle: ).

Oh, I should point out that we are all shameless enablers here.... ;) And we will happily help you spend your discretionary funds on pens, ink, paper, repair tools, ephemera, sealing wax.... I'm not kidding about the ephemera, BTW: I'm not the type of person who *does* ephemera -- at least not until I saw some of the old illustrated ads for Carter's ink with the the white mother cat and her ink-colored kittens.... :headsmack: Then I was just doomed. Doomed, I tell ya. Found a framed print last spring in an antiques mall, which I think was something you could order directly from Carter's as a special promo (it's definitely NOT a magazine or newspaper page). Walking around the place and it caught the corner of my eye, and I said "Oh I know what THAT is.... It's a Carter's ad!"

(See what I mean about enablers? :wallbash:)

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Welcome !

 

Thank you for sharing your passion. I love reading about members enjoying "this thing of ours".

It is a pleasure to greet another who likes big, hefty pens.

 

What's the next grail pen ?

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Congrats on your choice of #3 and the pen itself. I'm of the same mind, get what you really want. We will all be eager to see your Holy Grail !

Retired, twice. Time to do more things, writing being one.

 

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Congratulations on your purchase and enjoy it.

Be very careful, I just bought my third grail pen and I will be paying them all off until about forty years after I'm dead.

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Welcome !

 

Thank you for sharing your passion. I love reading about members enjoying "this thing of ours".

It is a pleasure to greet another who likes big, hefty pens.

 

What's the next grail pen ?

 

The next grail pen is the M800 Grand Place. But that's a long way off. First order of business is buying a nib for the nibless M805 Sourveran. But before that is recovering from the purchase of this M910 Toledo.

 

I love a heftier pen. Not too hefty, but hefty-ish. In ~10 years I haven't found anything better suited to my hands than the 800 size Pelikan.

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An M800 is one of my favorite pens for the same reasons mentioned above and was one of my first really great pens. I've since found a few other models that size wise compare and have gotten more use than my M800 (a well behaved Visconti HS being one with similar size but a more convenient cap). Pelikan has proven one of the most consistently great pen companies I've tried with most their pens working we out of the box. Other pens companies more frequently need some type of repair before being usable.

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