How Much Money Do You Have Tied Up In Your Pen Collection?

[vicpen123]

Ink, paper/notebooks, cases and cleaning items should not count. They can be used for other purposes not dependent on fountain pens.

 

Fountain pens have only one use - to transmit liquid ink to a receptive surface. Purity in purpose and design.

[pchand2]

Too much. 15000USD atleast. I wouldn't say it is tied up, because I enjoy 80% of the pens i have and i never had any regret. :-)

[rollerboy]

I don't have any money "tied up" as that implies I'm clinging to a vague notion of recovering some of the money through selling off pens. I can't see myself ever bothering to sell pens. I regard the the money spent on fountain pens as spent, gone, consumed ... but in exchange I have fountain pens.

[jar]

Far less than when I was into sports cars and racing, way less than when sailing, likely slightly more than in custom knives and vintage handguns.

[Zookie]

I hunt for the cheap ones nobody else wants. So I have maybe 50 pens for ca.

100 usd. My favorite is a Watermans Taperite Crusader that I got for 3 bucks.

[surprise123]

In another thread about where to sell pens it got me looking at my spreadsheet of pens I added a sum cell to add up the prices I paid for the modern pens I have. I was surprised by what I saw. I have $5,310 spent on my current pens with an average of $160 per pen. I have a Bexley 56 and a Pelikan m200 amber demonstrator from 2008 I have no idea what I paid for, but otherwise the amount is correct.

 

I do have a few vintage pens I have no idea what I paid for that are not included in all of this. I expect when I work out the value on them I will sell those since I don't use them. I did sell $780 worth of pens that helped fund some of the current ones along with a few pocket knives.

 

How much do you have tied up in this hobby?

What kind of knives? I want to resell some of my pens for a nice Benchmade.

[surprise123]

I just sniped a Parker 51 aero for $9.99 on eBay which brings my collection to:

One Ariel Kullock P51 double jewel demonstrator ($20 for demonstrator parts and $9 for the P51)

One Navy Grey P51 Aero ($50)

TWSBI Eco ($25)

Jinhao 159 ($4)

Parker 21 Super ($10)

 

I used to have a Waterman 502 and a Sheaffer Touchdown, but I started to appreciate Parker 51's more so they were sold off to accommodate my P51 fever. I also found out the stress relieving way of bid sniping through sniper websites.

[torstar]

I'd guess around $5,000 US

[Driften]

What kind of knives? I want to resell some of my pens for a nice Benchmade.

 

 

Chris Reeves Knives for the most part. Things like this:

http://driften.dragonsightsoftware.com/images/bwcfsebenza-2.jpeg

 

Don't have much left from my custom knife days.

[PAKMAN]

Don't get me started on knives! At the St Lewis show this past weekend, David Broadwell sold me this wonderful knife! I converted a good many fountain pens into knife money and came home with this beauty!

 

[Driften]

Don't get me started on knives! At the St Lewis show this past weekend, David Broadwell sold me this wonderful knife! I converted a good many fountain pens into knife money and came home with this beauty!

 

 

 

That is one really nice knife...

[Mulrich]

I started adding up what I spent on pens after being in the hobby for a year or two and didn't like what I found so I stopped keeping track. I've rarely paid retail price for a pen and I lucked out on a few pens that have gone up in value but I doubt I would break even if I sold out.

[cpmcnamara]

About 70% of my pens cost cost somewhere between $100-$200, with two King of Pens, a Pelikan M625, and GvFC Classic costing a bit more. I try to keep my collection down to what I can fit in a single layered display case, so that is 12 pens right now. I'd say $2300-$3200 - actually not as bad as I feel sometimes. I'm planning on selling off everything but my King of Pens and Faber Castell Ondoro's soon as I only use pens for writing these days and just want to keep the pens I write with the most on hand.

 

I also probably have close to $500 worth of paper and $300 worth of leather cases. Fortunately, unlike others, I was spared from an ink addiction and stick to a few tried and true Pilot Iroshizuku inks.

[Wahl]

I have already sold abut half of my collection, but I still have too much invested in it.

[torstar]

I have already sold abut half of my collection, but I still have too much invested in it.

 

did you sell to repurchase pens or for walking-around $$ ??

[Mew]

 

 

Your Hakase Turtle shell with Buffalo Horn is a work of art.

Thank you. That itself is about 2/3rd of the above figure.

Looking for something more beautiful though, perhaps one day.. Namiki emperor Goldfish or 95th anniversary ascending dragon

Edited July 3, 2018 by Mew

[SpecTP]

a lot less than what I was spending on collecting watches.

[TSherbs]

$500

 

I have many more books than pens, but I have nearly stopped buying books. I don't read as much anymore. I usually just read things after my wife finishes them.

Edited July 3, 2018 by TSherbs

[TSherbs]

I keep track of how much I've spent on individual pens, including repair work, for inventory purposes; and I also have a spread sheet just for my own interest, of how much I've paid (believe me -- there are a LOT more in the section of columns of lower priced pens... ). But have not totaled it up.....

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

You have a spread sheet but have not executed the SUM command at the bottom of that "amount paid" column?

[kazoolaw]

Don't get me started on knives! At the St Lewis show this past weekend, David Broadwell sold me this wonderful knife! I converted a good many fountain pens into knife money and came home with this beauty!

 

At this level is there the user vs collector debate among knife people?

 

gary