My Newest Pelikan Satisfies My Penchant For Black & Gold

[ItsMeDave]

From the top:

Pelikan M800, EF

Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Age, EF

Montblanc 146, EF,

Sailor Pro Gear Realo MF

Pilot Custom 742, FA

 

(Yes, those are scratches on my Visconti, happened a day or two after buying the pen, I have no idea how, not sweating it.)

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j65/ItsMeDave/Pens/Black%20amp%20Gold.jpg

Edited March 23, 2017 by ItsMeDave

[sargetalon]

Sweet collection. Congrats on the new bird!

[Kevan]

Who says black & gold is boring? Fantastic collection!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Five or so years ago, I swore off of buying Black and Gold pens in they are so common in Germany.

Since then only one third of my pens have been black and gold.

 

The most classic, sleekest pen I have is a thin medium long Geha 725 with an inlaid nib and rolled gold trim. I do need to take a picture of the clip....it is real classic...two slightly curved lines make it so much better than two straight lines. Oh, the nib is semi-flex and back when I was a 20 pen 'noobie', and more OCD than today, it was one of my then three perfectly balanced pens. (each so different...a back weighted MB 234 1/2 Deluxe '52-54 only, and a P-75. Both the latter standard size.)

 

The picture of the nib, with permission of Penboard.de.

http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o707/boboolson1/Goldschwing%20nib-2%20-%20Copy_zpslfjx1ael.jpg

 

http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o707/boboolson1/geha1%20-%20Copy_zpstockjbgs.jpg

Edited March 23, 2017 by Bo Bo Olson

[Calabria]

Classy.

[inkstainedruth]

I'll admit that given my druthers, I would rather not have a black pen. But a lot of times, especially in antique stores, you buy what they have. And, as Bo Bo often says to do, I was chasing nibs (that's how I ended up with a black Estie LJ (9284 nib) a couple of years ago at Ohio Pen Show, and then an SJ (second black in that size) with a 9128 nib in the wild (the first black SJ has a 1555 Gregg nib).

And most of the other black pens I have were because that was what was available (I wouldn't trade the black Snorkel with the factory semi-flex stub nib for love nor money; and the Eversharp Symphony -- bought the same place as that black SJ with the 9128 nib on a different expedition a few months later -- turns out to be a nice writer with no sac replacement needed). And my first Parker 45 (found in a little antiques mall in the middle of no-where, NW Pennsylvania -- okay, it was Coudersport, which IS the county seat for Potter County, for what it's worth). And the black Balance Oversize which had been my husband's grandfather's pen....

I don't go out of my way to get black pens. They just keep turning up....

("Can I keep it? It followed me home...." )

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[chromantic]

I love my black and gold M150s. They're the FP equivalent of the little black dress.

[inkstainedruth]

I love my black and gold M150s. They're the FP equivalent of the little black dress.

 

Well, I wouldn't one of those either -- I generally look like death warmed over when I wear black (although I have a t-shirt or two in black because that's the only way they came -- including one that I designed the artwork on the front for; trying to remember if I still have the old one from the Towne Crier Cafe, which I've probably long since outgrown...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[chromantic]

Haha, I don't think I'd look good in one, either, Ruth. I meant in the sense of a basic, simple design that is yet elegant and sophisticated. Everyone has their own little black dress - the M150 is mine, yours might be the Vector?