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Possibly this jade pen?

 

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"buy it now" for $325,000. For that price, you'd think they'd include free shipping but, no, that's another $96.

 

Could be worse. I remember about 5 years ago, several threads on FPN were devoted to some pen on eBay described by the seller as "vintage Bock pen" -- that one was only, IIRC, $95K -- but the shipping was an additional $15K.... ;)

And *that* pen wasn't hand-carved jade.... :rolleyes:

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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I am interpreting "Uniquely made" as "Singular", without any consideration whatsoever regarding beauty, elegance, lack of taste, or practicality. Considering this, I would say:

 

About almost of Michel Audiard's pens:

http://www.audiard.com/?project=stylos

 

Cesar's fountain pen:

http://www.aguttes.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=2396726

 

Ian the jock

 

Someone on here made a pretty unique pen with sterling silver/gold spiders, and also precious stones on it, and it was absolutely stunning.

For the life of me I can't remember who it was.

It made the Istos Arachnis look naff.

A real one off.

Ian

 

 

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This came up in my Flipboard feed recently.

 

Anura Rafael Tourbillon convertible watch/pen.

 

 

http://www.ablogtowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Anura-Rafael-Write-Time-2.jpg

 

 

http://www.ablogtowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Anura-Rafael-Write-Time-1.jpg

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I'd nominate the Parafernalia Revolution as oddly shaped and unique for sure!

Seriously, who else has the uncontrollable urge to kill this thing with fire?

I can stop any time.

-Me

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Seriously, who else has the uncontrollable urge to kill this thing with fire?

I do haha, good way to put it

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It looks like you can take the pen out from the center? In which case what's the point of the whole thing?

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Someone on here made a pretty unique pen with sterling silver/gold spiders, and also precious stones on it, and it was absolutely stunning.

For the life of me I can't remember who it was.

It made the Istos Arachnis look naff.

A real one off.

 

Ian

Could you be referring to DJ Kennedy who made custom pens for Neiman Marcus?

 

Just happened to run across his work when explaining Neiman Marcus to a Polish friend yesterday (she has a sterling ballpoint with the name Neiman Marcus on it and thought it was a person. Hers is not a DJ Kennedy.).

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I don't know if it is the pen you remember, but I thought I recalled seeing a pen made by Shawn Newton, NEWTON PENS, Hot Springs, Arkansas, which he had a Jeweler friend make a an overlay for, with spiders & VERY discreet stones, which was stunning. I merely "Googled: Shawn Newton + Spider pen & found the image, it was on his site October 2016. It may not be the pen you aw, but it still warrants a look & was easy to find (If I could find it, it had to easy!)

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I'd nominate the Parafernalia Revolution as oddly shaped and unique for sure!

 

The local pen store had several of these in stock. Boy, this is one of the more uncomfortable pens I have ever held. And the refill cartridges are very short and thin (read: little ink capacity), the cartridges are proprietary (read: expensive if you can find them), and the cartridges only come in black ink.

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Seriously, who else has the uncontrollable urge to kill this thing with fire?

Yes, please. And I have the lighters.

My latest ebook.   And not just for Halloween!
 

My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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Most unique that I've personally seen or owned? My Stone Mask 3D printed fountain pen, with red "pukao" turned acrylic section. Mine is, to the best of my knowledge, the only one like it in the world, and even Stone Mask pens with stock sections aren't common. As in, I've never encountered another one "in the wild." And it's an excellent pen!

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Most unique that I've personally seen or owned? My Stone Mask 3D printed fountain pen, with red "pukao" turned acrylic section. Mine is, to the best of my knowledge, the only one like it in the world, and even Stone Mask pens with stock sections aren't common. As in, I've never encountered another one "in the wild." And it's an excellent pen!

 

Cool pen, I like it! :thumbup:

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In my opinion I think the Pilot Capless or Vanishing Point is a very unique pen because it is a fountain pen disguised as a ballpoint pen that looks good and is very practical and it isnt like a fortune to buy.

 

Even the Lamy dialogue is interesting because when you twist to bring the nib out the clip goes down a little bit. Only a little but atleast they tried something.

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