Interesting/different Fountain Pens

[garyc]

The Lamy Dialog 3 is certainly a unique design. It's one which you may wish to test drive before buying, as the pure cylindrical shape with the clip in the 'grip area' (it's not really a section - a bit like the Capless) might be uncomfortable for some.

[catbert]

A couple of dual-nibbed Italian pens:

 

Quadretti Colorado

 

Zerollo Duo Color

[Houston]

A couple of dual-nibbed Italian pens:

 

Quadretti Colorado

 

Zerollo Duo Color

 

 

Those were both fascinating, and I'd never heard of either. Thank you!

[catbert]

One more:

 

Aurora Asterope

[Paul80]

Another one from the same channel as above

 

 

Not sure I understand why you would want to do that though

 

Paul

[WLSpec]

A couple of dual-nibbed Italian pens:

 

Quadretti Colorado

 

Zerollo Duo Color

Nice! While talking about pens with multiple nibs, I had to mention something that I caught in Pen World recently: Ralph Reyes from Regalia writing labs. He is doing some absolutely crazy stuff over there, especially involving stacked nibs (up to 5 NIBS stacked!!!). It's truly amazing.

 

Here is a gallery of nibs from his site: HERE

 

Note: These are nibs, not pens, but I thought they were so different that I had to put them in this thread.

Edited March 28, 2019 by WLSpec

[WLSpec]

Another one from the same channel as above

 

 

Not sure I understand why you would want to do that though

 

Paul

Ha! Agreed. Cool pen, but why would I need to flip the nib?

[Houston]

Ha! Agreed. Cool pen, but why would I need to flip the nib?

 

Two nibs. Two sacs. Two colours!

 

...or you could just carry two pens. :-)

[catbert]

 

Two nibs. Two sacs. Two colours!

 

...or you could just carry two pens. :-)

 

Indeed.

 

A recent take on the two nib idea that didn't make it to market:

 

Vittae dual-nib fountain pen

[dfbach]

My most peculiar pen, the Waterman Sérénité:

 

 

[WLSpec]

 

Two nibs. Two sacs. Two colours!

 

...or you could just carry two pens. :-)

Ah! I didn't pick up on that, I just thought the nib was turning upside down...

 

 

That's amazing.

[gyasko]

Lamy 2000. Unusual non style.

 

[snip]

 

All the Meisterstuck wannabes. How many ways can you avoid being a copy?

The Lamy 2000 has a distinctive modernist style. It's immediately apparent when you compare it to a gold-filled ringtop, a Waterman Patrician or a Deco band. Hardly a non-style.

 

As for the MBs, they are merely another variation on the Balance theme by Sheaffer.

[Mech-for-i]

Congrats! I hope you enjoy your new (old) pen!

 

When reading through this again, I remembered the original pen that inspired me to make this thread, but I actually forgot it at first. It was the Parafernalia Revolution. A while ago, I found the ballpoint version of this pen, and I was struck by the unique (though not very practical) design. Later, I found the fountain pen, though I could only locate it online. It is essentially a thin pen with a small nib inserted into a body composed of three separate bars. The design is really interesting, so I think it deserves to be on this list.

 

well they actually do have a normal version of that for a short while though it does not take C/C as the Revolution Major goes, instead it ad build in captured converter and here's mine, actually I had no idea what's its model name so anyone care to enlighten me on that ...

 

Parafernalia, on Flickr

 

 

Edited March 30, 2019 by Mech-for-i

[WLSpec]

 

well they actually do have a normal version of that for a short while though it does not take C/C as the Revolution Major goes, instead it ad build in captured converter and here's mine, actually I had no idea what's its model name so anyone care to enlighten me on that ...

 

Parafernalia, on Flickr

 

 

Nice! I had no idea. What do you think of this pen and the way it writes?

[georges zaslavsky]

Modern Conklin Nozac, Visconti Voyager, Omas 360 and Omas Paragon

[WLSpec]

Modern Conklin Nozac, Visconti Voyager, Omas 360 and Omas Paragon

Interesting suggestions. Omas has some very interesting pens and nibs. Mentioning Visconti, they have some cool stuff going on... especially with nibs such as the "skeleton" and "tubular" nibs.

[Mech-for-i]

Nice! I had no idea. What do you think of this pen and the way it writes?

It write a standard Euro Fine real smooth and wet also

[fullfederhalter]

I had actually been thinking about sharing an image of a rare and interesting pen that was just expertly restored by Main Street Pens, and this topic provides the perfect opportunity. This is a Dunn-Pen in sterling silver. The Dunn-Pen company was only in business for a few years between 1921 and 1924, and their claim to fame were pens with a pump filler system with a bright red filler knob. The company tried different materials including casein for the pump filler knob which did not age very well, and this sterling silver pen was found with a missing knob. Dunn-Pens are hard to find and parts are very scarce. I bought a donor pen at last year's Columbus pen show, but the two pens, while similar in size, were not perfectly interchangeable and the casein knob proved too fragile to use. Ron Zorn ended up turning a knob out of red acrylic, and had to rethread the donor section, which had to be used since the original one broke during removal. The pen holds a good deal of ink, and it has a wet noodle nib.

[WLSpec]

I had actually been thinking about sharing an image of a rare and interesting pen that was just expertly restored by Main Street Pens, and this topic provides the perfect opportunity. This is a Dunn-Pen in sterling silver. The Dunn-Pen company was only in business for a few years between 1921 and 1924, and their claim to fame were pens with a pump filler system with a bright red filler knob. The company tried different materials including casein for the pump filler knob which did not age very well, and this sterling silver pen was found with a missing knob. Dunn-Pens are hard to find and parts are very scarce. I bought a donor pen at last year's Columbus pen show, but the two pens, while similar in size, were not perfectly interchangeable and the casein knob proved too fragile to use. Ron Zorn ended up turning a knob out of red acrylic, and had to rethread the donor section, which had to be used since the original one broke during removal. The pen holds a good deal of ink, and it has a wet noodle nib.

Nice suggestion. I've not heard of these before, so thanks for informing me! It's interesting hearing about pen companies that were only in business for a short amount of time.

I don't have much experience with pump fillers, but it's a unique filling system.

[georges zaslavsky]

Conklin Mark Twain limited Edition of 150 examples