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TheRealMikeDr Vintage

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I bought myself an early Birthday present (2 weeks away) and have a 1980's Montblanc 149 headed my way - due to arrive in a week or so.

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I'm awaiting a FPR Jaipur in black with a flex nib, a FPR Guru in demo/blue cap with a stub, anything else thrown into that box, a pastel green and neutral Hero Safari knock off with a fine nib, a real Lamy Safari Dark Lilac with 1.1i nib, and finally a real Lamy Safari Pink with an A nib for my 8 year old daughter's first pen.

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Just got an early surprise from Japan in the mail a couple days ago that I thought wouldn't be due for a while yet - a black Pilot Lucina with a medium nib. Snagged it on Amazon for far better price than what I've seen others getting it for. This is my first traditional gold-trimmed, black fountain pen; freshly inked with Noodlers Bulletproof Black. There's something about a gold nib lightly stained in black ink... And that screw cap!

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...The history, culture and sophistication; the rich, aesthetic beauty; the indulgent, ritualistic sensations of unscrewing the cap and filling from a bottle of ink; the ambient scratch of the ink-stained nib on fine paper; A noble instrument, descendant from a line of ever-refined tools, and the luster of writing,
with a charge from over several millennia of continuing the art of recording man's life.

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I just ordered my second fountain pen this morning. A JinHao X450 for $2.47. Now I have to wait for the slow boat from China to South Africa. :(

 

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chromantic Antique

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Jinhao 1200, the silver body/gold clip one. I only hope it doesn't weigh a ton.

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

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statius Mint

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Brian Edison sent me this pic of my newly completed Pearl in tortoise lucite, black ebonite section, eyedropper, 1.1mm stub gold nib. Should be here tomorrow.

 

 

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Labitur occulte fallitque volatilis aetas, et nihil est annis velocius. Ovid, Met. 10.519-20.

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TravelCommons Dipped Only

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A Lamy CP-1 and a bottle of Graf Von Faber-Castell Moss Green ink that I ordered from La Couronne du Comte at the beginning of December as a Christmas gift for my son. A month and a half later, it's still MIA, and La Couronne has no clue where it is.

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Well, the Estie with the 9556 nib came today (after spending several days bouncing around different departments (which strangely have different zip codes, even though I suspect that it's all the same building!) at the USPS regional sort facility. And it turns out to befull size J :thumbup: (at that price I was really expecting it was going to be an SJ). Even better, the sac still seems to have some play in it. :D

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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A Pilot Custom 91 with a SFM nib, two Parker 51s and a couple of Parker 45s in interesting colours.

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A Lamy 2000 with a medium nib. I've been contemplating getting this pen for a long time and finally made the decision last night and ordered it online.

 

It will be my first pen with a gold nib (and first pen purchase over 100 euros). :D

 

Lamy 2000 here too... But with an OBB nib.. And under 100€ :)

Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.

 

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Aquaria Rare

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Franklin Christoph 66 Stabilis in Ice with an EF nib.

 

Just picked it up from my PO Box today. Totally in love with it, already!

 

I also recently got a Diplomat Soft Touch as a knockabout pen. It's taking a ride in my regular sized Midori Traveler while my Ohto Tasche gets a much-deserved break.

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Oh--and I'm waiting for a Jinhao x750 that's blue marble swirly. I bought it solely to test out a big sample of BSB that I got from (I think) Vanness.

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