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I like Konrads a lot too, but I have to curb all of my purchasing desires. I own two and will likely not own more. The only pen I own three versions of is the Jinhao x750, purchased from China for about $3.99 each. I owned more than three Preppies once, but they have all cracked over time and I will not replace any of them.

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First it was P45. Then Waterman JIF, Jiffie and JIF 2. Then on to Sheaffer 50s-era Touchdowns - Cadet and Craftman, Admirals, Tuckaway, Snorkel.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Love my ebonite Konrad but wasn't thrilled with the flex nib. Swapped it for a Knox m and it's wonderful. Thinking about getting more of the plastic ones.

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Pelikan M800's are my downfall!

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Esterbrook Dollars are the pens I have most of. I am a big fan of their Art Deco design.

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Fred

 

...and now Froggy you'd better use that magic twanger

and become visible

 

PLUCK your magic twanger Froggy

 

Hi ya kids Hi ya Hi ya

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See below..................Thank you...........................

 

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A country road.....a tree.....evening.....

 

where nothing happens...............

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Ladies and Gents Please excuse the Dreaded Triple Post

 

Perplexin' ain't it...........................................................................

 

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I have 4 Kaweco Sports (3 classics, 1 AL) and two Preras. Thinking about getting a third Prera in a really obnoxious color for marking essays.

Yet another Sarah.

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I'm getting my second Vacumatic. Not sure if that counts! They're just too pretty.

Inked: Aurora Optima EF (Pelikan Tanzanite); Franklin Christoph Pocket 20 Needlepoint (Sailor Kiwa Guro); Sheaffers PFM I Reporter/Fine (Diamine Oxblood); Franklin Christoph 02 Medium Stub (Aurora Black); Platinum Plaisir Gunmetal EF (Platinum Brown); Platinum Preppy M (Platinum Blue-Black). Leaded: Palomino Blackwing 602; Lamy Scribble 0.7 (Pentel Ain Stein 2B); Uni Kuru Toga Roulette 0.5 (Uni Kuru Toga HB); Parker 51 Plum 0.9 (Pilot Neox HB)

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Uhhh. (Where do I begin...?)

A bunch of Konrads (although I've lost two of them), and I seem to have inadvertently started collecting Noodler's Charlie pens (up to five). Plus three FPCs.

A bunch of Esterbrooks, trying to get different nibs on them (although most of them probably need to be re-sacced).

A bunch of Parker 51s (four Aeros, three 51 Vacs); plus a 51 Special, a 21, and a 41.

A bunch of Parker Vacumatics (I think the current count is seven) in different colors, sizes and versions.

A bunch of Parker Vectors (current count is I think nine, including a 4 nib unit calligraphy set; ten if you count the rollerball I paid a buck for at the Ohio Pen Show to (temporarily) harvest the barrel from, since my first one has a crack right at the threads, and apparently that color blue is uncommon.... (the rollerball barrel is definitely the wrong color, but it fits).

Five Sheaffer Snorkels.

Three Parker 45s (all different colors and with different nibs). And a couple of Parker 61s.

And (at current count) 4 Morrison ringtops, including a duplicate of the gold-flll filigree overlay when I thought I lost my first one (and of course turned up a week after I bought the second one...).

A few Pelikans, mostly in the M200/M400 size. But I've lost the *second* Café Crème :crybaby:(and unlike the Morrison it hasn't turned up yet). So I'm really nervous about the concept of paying top dollar for one of the new M405 Stressemans.... Since that would be by far the most expensive pen I'd have ever bought....

What can I say? If I like how a pen writes, or feels in my hand, it only makes sense to go with what works.... B)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"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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Estie J (lots)

Sheaffer Balance, especially the oversized ones.

Elysee.

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Ruth, how do you "lose" a pen? Is it like for the woman with too many children who lived in a shoe? :o

 

Lost as in, lost. I keep thinking the pen is in the house and just fell down behind the chair or out of my purse, but I haven't found it yet. The first one, along with a Noodler's Konrad, were in a pen case I think I lost at a hotel in Bowling Green KY last spring. I called the hotel a couple of times, but they said they didn't find the case. :(

I also lost a Morrison ringtop about 3 days after losing the second Café Crème. It turned up a week and a half later: the lanyard had somehow gotten caught on one of the clips holding the glass panel in the storm door, and the pen itself had unscrewed itself and had fallen in the crevice between the storm door and the regular front door, but fortunately the nib did not appear to have sustained any damage. But it reminded me of why I had vowed to stop taking that pen out of the house.... :headsmack: And of course I found it *after* I lucked into a replacement pen (although possibly with not as good a nib) at the Ohio Pen Show.... :glare:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"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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Ruth - Sorry to hear you lost the second Cafe Creme! I feel for you.

 

Let's see - counting the desk pen/set I have five Parker 45's (two of which are Flighters), five Esterbrook J series pens (3 J/1 LJ/1 SJ) - I do want to complete the color set on the J's. I need red, blue and copper.

 

At one shot I lost a Parker 51 Special set with MP, two Parker 45's (one a Flighter), two Pelikan M205's (Toledo Red and Black) a M150 and a 120 Merz & Krell. That was about 18 months ago. They were in a pen wrap I got from alc3261 in a PIF she did. That was devastating. Fortunately none were purchased new, which eased the pain of the loss some. It was still over $300 out of pocket in the aggregate.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Ruth - Sorry to hear you lost the second Cafe Creme! I feel for you.

 

Let's see - counting the desk pen/set I have five Parker 45's (two of which are Flighters), five Esterbrook J series pens (3 J/1 LJ/1 SJ) - I do want to complete the color set on the J's. I need red, blue and copper.

 

At one shot I lost a Parker 51 Special set with MP, two Parker 45's (one a Flighter), two Pelikan M205's (Toledo Red and Black) a M150 and a 120 Merz & Krell. That was about 18 months ago. They were in a pen wrap I got from alc3261 in a PIF she did. That was devastating. Fortunately none were purchased new, which eased the pain of the loss some. It was still over $300 out of pocket in the aggregate.

 

Ouch! I feel your pain. :o Losing pens just makes a big hole in one's stomach. :(

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"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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