What Was The First Pen You Sold From Your Collection?

[putteringpenman]

After 4 years of building a 21 pen collection, I sold my first pen today: A Camlin 47. I'm hoping to reduce the number of pens I have and buy some higher quality pens down the road.

 

What was the first pen you sold from your collection?

[pajaro]

Parker 51 aerometric in forest green, pen and pencil.

[Bo Bo Olson]

It was then no collection, had my One Man One Pen P-75 for 40 some odd years....and was buying pens up to E15....once before Chinese pens swamped the market one bought cheap $15-25 dollar used pens....semi-vintage and vintage pens.

A Waterman Graduate, was a chrome plated finger print trap. I had bought it for E 15 sold it a few weeks later for E10 and was happy.....every time I had the gleaming pen in my hands all I saw was the finger prints.

One of the reasons I wonder why someone wants to polish his silver pens into gleaming.....finger prints and looks like chrome. When silver tarnishes a bit....gun metal gray.....one 'knows' its silver.

 

Pens I shouldn't have sold...as Noobie, a light metal Diplomat....very well balanced and light.

A Sheaffer pen made in Japan*** with a very narrow nib.........................how ever all three were nails and I wasn't into nails.

 

*** That was way before Japanese pens became popular....'70's I think.

[NinthSphere]

I think it was the Pilot Elite 95S.

[sansenri]

I'm still thinking whether I want to sell one...

[A Smug Dill]

I'm still thinking whether I want to sell one...

Me too.

[ParkerDuofold]

Hi all,

 

My Pilot Metropolitans... actually... I think I gave them away... the first pen I sold was a 1911 Standard, because I didn't like the size or the nib.

 

Be well all.

 

 

- Anthony

[Charles Rice]

Never sold one, but gave away a few - Osmiriod, Parker 75, and maybe a couple of others.

[Honeybadgers]

A noodlers boston safety that I'd fit a vintage waterman ideal wet noodle into. I already had one boston safety with a wet noodle and thought it was so good I had to share another one with the world. Only got about what I paid + shipping, but I was happy to pass it along to someone who'd appreciate it.

 

I'm going to start slimming down my collection soon though. A few things I like but just never use, like a monteverde invincia deluxe.

 

I keep boxes for everything though. I like getting used things with original packaging, so that's how I resell them.

Edited March 21, 2019 by Honeybadgers

[Parker51]

Not sold, but traded. I can't recall which one first. Most notable, a Parker 51 Demonstrator with a need for a new hood and a full restoration to someone who had a hood. Demonstrator hoods don't come on the market often.

[pajaro]

Not sold, but traded. I can't recall which one first. Most notable, a Parker 51 Demonstrator with a need for a new hood and a full restoration to someone who had a hood. Demonstrator hoods don't come on the market often.

 

When Ariel Kullock was in business, I found several hoods, including clear demo hood.

 

Try finding a plum hood.

[Driften]

Platinum 3776 SF was the first one I have recorded as selling. I might have sold one before but can't remember. I know I have given some away.

[seimodern]

Congrats, and good luck with the new direction!

[Rosendust2121]

I'm still thinking whether I want to sell one...

Same here!

[Runnin_Ute]

Have given two or three away, but don't recall selling any to date. A Jinhao 159, a Cross Aventura. Have thought about one or two others. The 159 was to heavy, the Aventura wrote nicely, but didn't really speak to me.

 

I recently bought a low end Pelikan - a Jazz Elegance medium nib. Nice writers, but I bought two and only need one. So I may pass that on to someone.

[Jerome Tarshis]

The only one I've ever sold was a Parker 17 with a beak nib. Those were made from 1962 to 1964. I thought it was a wonderful writer, and I like my UK Parker Aero Duofolds. However. There was an overriding consideration. At the time I was exchanging email with an English FPN member, a computer programmer and an organist and a theater director. Whether also a playwright I can't say. In short, a man of parts.

 

He told me he was beginning to take an interest in pens made in England. It seemed to me that he ought to have my terrific 17 with beak nib more than I ought to, so by way of helping along his new interest in made-in-England pens I offered it to him at a modest price.

 

This type of thing hasn't been happening to me all the time, so I have what some might consider too many pens,

Edited March 21, 2019 by Jerome Tarshis

[mallymal1]

Haven't sold one yet. Don't know if I ever will.

 

[sidthecat]

I had a handful of Parker Vacumatics with which I'd fallen out of love, and I unloaded the lot (including a Golden Web in a box) for five bills at an L.A. Pen Show.

[mitto]

None,so far.

[praxim]

Not sure. It was either a Waterman 32 or Esterbrook LJ. I think I have sold eight or nine pens. More will go, mainly for being duplicates or not a collecting interest (like the first two). I will also remove some nib styles less to my taste