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I was searching for interesting pens on eBay - like you do, and theres a guy selling a Pink pen with a Pink nib...a bit crusty but intact, and his starting bid was $99.00 with a Buy It Now option. The description was a bland reference to his having had it a long time.

 

My initial assumption was OMG! He doesnt know what he has! Ive kind of made it my mission to exploit people like this, but I am also a cheapskate, so Id make an offer and see what happened.

 

So I made a Buy It Now offer in the low hundreds, because someones going to offer him what its worth if it hangs out there long enough, and the seller rejected it because others had offered a lot more. No surprise, since I have no business bidding on a Pink, but I told him to put a zero on that starting price and wished him luck.

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Yep, I didn't even step up to the plate to take a swing at that one.

I am in the middle of the opposite problem. I have a really nice flexy Red Keyhole nib, but no pen body to put it in.

Also, recently a Wahl Self fitting point (the one with the silver sliding block) arrived in a Doric parts pen. It needs a home too.

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A four figure price? :yikes: Too rich for my blood....

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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We have one in Classifieds for $900.00, so it seems a bargain by that comparison. Still hideously expensive for me, but comparable to an MB 149.

Of course, I just bought a Conklin Crescent with what seems a fantastic nib. The seller is a nibmeister and priced it at considerably less than the Waterman. While I’d like a Pink as much as the next lunatic, I cannot fail to note that other makers made great nibs. My question: does the Pink live up to its legend?

Anyone who’s used one, please describe the experience.

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What size is this pen? #7 #5?

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Yep, I didn't even step up to the plate to take a swing at that one.

I am in the middle of the opposite problem. I have a really nice flexy Red Keyhole nib, but no pen body to put it in.

Also, recently a Wahl Self fitting point (the one with the silver sliding block) arrived in a Doric parts pen. It needs a home too.

 

Well, I happen to have 2 #5 Watermans with non-flexible nibs that would be a great home for your keyhole. How much do you want for it?

As for the adjustable Wahl, I don't think you'll have any problem selling it on e-Bay. Or to me:)

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Dr.X,

 

I appreciate the kind offer, but in the case of those nibs, broken pens were purchased which had those nibs in them. Frequently you can get a horribly broken pen, with an amazing nib for less than what "just the nib" sells for. It makes no sense, but that is our strange reality. I got my first pen with a Red Keyhole nib for only about 50 bucks, simply because the pen was so undesirable, and the photographs were blurry which made them hard to decipher. I may toss the Red Keyhole in a Waterman Ink-Vue Silver Ray pen, I already have one of those with a number 7 Red Keyhole Nib, and it is a great writer. I will provide a picture of that one below, it needed a solvent weld to it's barrel. (Yes, that is 2.5mm of flex you are seeing in some of those lines).

 

I am eyeballing a Jet Black Lever fill Coronet in one of my boxes for the Self Fitting Point. The Coronet has a nice nib, but nothing of the quality of the Self Fitting Point.

 

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I'm confused, is Pink the name of the brand or the model? Why is it so impressive/valuable?

The only fountain pen with 'pink' nib is a Sailor or Platinum pen with rose-gold nib.

Google Images is not helping me visualize this pen, does someone have a picture?

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Just a friendly pointer. FPN rules state we are not permitted to buy and sell in the forums other than the Classifieds.

 

The only pink nibbed Watermans pen on eBay, at this time, is a black body #7.

 

Strange that FPN have one listed at $900 and it gets mentioned here and now the ebay listing has changed to $899 start. We are discussing the black pen next a reel of tape.

 

Is the seller reading this topic.

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I'm confused, is Pink the name of the brand or the model? Why is it so impressive/valuable?

The only fountain pen with 'pink' nib is a Sailor or Platinum pen with rose-gold nib.

Google Images is not helping me visualize this pen, does someone have a picture?

The colours denote the shape and style of the nib for different writing styles. Pink having long thin tines thus making it a very flexible nib.

 

Coloured nibs are normally found on #5 & #7 all black or red ripple pens.

 

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BUT lets not forget the very rare BLACK

 

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That's fascinating, thank you!

I'm curious about the black now, what's its specialty?

It's not documented so nobody knows.

 

It looks very similar to a Pink....long and thin.

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Dr.X,

Yes they were all eBay acquisitions. I live in the middle of nowhere, and pen shops and pen shows are hours of drive away. The Ink-Vue that needed the solvent weld was of unknown condition. The Wahl pen was clearly problematic, it was a desk pen that was missing the tail and the base. The most recent Red Keyhole pen looked good in the pictures, but proved to be missing critical (and hard to find) parts which secured the Ink-Sac when I started to repair it.

 

The black nibs are odd. Only rumor explains them. Men in the earlier days had a greater drive to appear macho. Someone at Waterman thought PINK stamped on a flexible nib might be "off-putting" to men, so they decided to stamp some of them "BLACK". But this story is in the category of Apocryphal legend, as no actual documentation backs it up.

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