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  1. 1. Would you feel a responsibility or desire to keep these pen/pencil sets together?

    • Go back to the shop and do the right thing--they're only priced at $20 a piece.
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    • You're not a museum curator, you'll never use them (though they'll look pretty), so let someone who'd like them for what they are snatch them up.
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I found an amazing 51 Signet and 61 in the wild yesterday. Great pens, and the 51 has the broadest, smoothest nib I've experienced in this model, and they were only $30 a piece!

 

They are engraved with their previous owners name/initials (who ended up being a distinguished WWII veteran, cool).

 

I left without buying their matching pencils...What would you do?

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I have a few sets. I would want the pencils to have the set. I have tended to use them sometimes anyway. Those .9mm pencils were good for doing newspaper crosswords.

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Go get the pencils.....

 

I once found a P51 pencil with a name on it and was selling it on ebay and another person had found the matching

P51 fp. They ended up be bought buy the same person to bring the set back together. I found out later the person resold the set

to another FP collector.

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I would buy the pencils. I love having sets, using them as a set. For instance, at the moment I am using a Parker Duofold maroon marble International fountain pen for letters and the matching pencil for notes and crosswords. Very satisfying. Especially in the case where they belonged to one person and are monogrammed as such, it's a tribute to history to keep the set together.

Happiness is a real Montblanc...

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I have on purpose bought sets. Parker ballpoint/mechanical pencil sets. In fact, I used to have a 51 Special set.... Go get the pencils and match them up. I even in a 45 Flighter have fountain pen, ballpoint and mechanical pencil. t didn't buy them together as a set. I bought the fountain pen then got the bp/mp set later to complete the trio.

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"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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If it is "Cool" that the pens were owned by a distinguished WWII Veteran, then a pencil owned by the same person would be equally "Cool" and having their complete set (or two) would be "Cool Squared".

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The price is what convinced me to get the pencils.

I can imagine not getting a pencil from a set if the price was high, it was damaged or they were not an engraved set.

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Thanks everyone--I went back and completed the sets, and feel good about it. As time went, it would have felt unfortunate not to have kept them together.

 

As a bonus, I picked up a Sheaffer's Imperial that I had passed over last time as well, so it's been a good week.

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Personally, I don't believe in separating sets, especially if they are engraved! Besides, those pencils are usually AWESOME!

Fair winds and following seas.

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Personally, I don't believe in separating sets, especially if they are engraved! Besides, those pencils are usually AWESOME!

Agreed. I felt the same way, and this was certainly the lesson I learned!

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Sopen, you made the right decision.

 

All my collection is made of sets, I really enjoy using pencils.

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Congrats! I'm glad you purchased the pencils too!

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Glad to hear you did go back for the pencils.

Brad

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Sounds like you're happy, and that's what really matters. I'm hesitant to suggest that inanimate objects have emotions, but I can somehow imagine the pencils feeling a sense of loss when the pens were never returned to the display case, then great joy when re-united.

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