Limited Edition Pens

[wvbeetlebug]

I recently purchase two Limited Edition and numbered pens. I purchased the Monteverde Innova 20th Anniversary pens in both chrome and gunmetal. I am most definitely a pen user. I have other pens which were limited edition runs and without hesitation inked them up. For some reason, I am not so ready to ink these up and use them yet (well one anyway, the gunmetal one hasn't arrived yet).

 

What are your thoughts on actually using versus collecting?

[A Smug Dill]

I don't buy pens with the intention of keeping them either for resale as new-in-box or as a museum exhibit unused. However, there are pens that I've bought, then find myself too scared to use it; for example, the Pilot Capless 2013 Limited Edition Vanishing Point pen, which has a light-coloured birch barrel that I'd be afraid of staining; and so it has lived in its retail box (kept somewhere dark) since arriving here years ago, even though I merrily inked up limited edition Aurora pens and Platinum pens far more expensive than the 2013LE VP.

[MadAsAHatter]

I have similar thoughts as Smug Dill. I don't buy pens to resell or to keep new as display pieces. I do have a few numbered limited editions but I did not buy them because the were LE's. I got them because I liked the pen itself. Being a LE had no bearing on my decision to buy or use it. If it happened to be a little expensive for me I will still use it, but its use will be limited to at home only. And again that is nothing to do with it being a limited edition and more to do with the price and me not wanting to mess it up.

[sansenri]

absolutely, pens are for writing, if there is any of my pens I have not written with, it's because I have not gotten round to it yet...

[greencobra]

sure, ink and write, why not? i only own one le pen and i inked it soon after it arrived. and i'm too old to hold onto something only to let someone else use it after i'm gone.

[praxim]

I look at the question from the other end: I would not buy a pen I did not want to ink. Therefore my answer must be yes.

 

eta: my collection includes some modern limited editions and some relatively rare vintage pens.

Edited October 16, 2020 by praxim

[corniche]

Hi WVBeetlebug,

 

Personally, I ink and use my pens. I have one Bexley pen that was commissioned by Bob Gaston, (RIP); of which only 8 are known to exist - and I use it. My Blueberry Estie is 1 of 250... and many Conklin L.E.'s and others... all inked.

 

BUT, if have qualms about using it - enough to pose this question - THEN DO NOT INK IT!!!

 

You can't unring a bell. A pen can always be inked and used a few weeks - a few months - a few years - or a few decades from now, but it can never be uninked.

 

Be patient and put it aside and don't use it until YOU WANT TO USE IT - and not until.

 

 

- Sean

[Misfit]

I have bought some numbered pens. Every one has been used, and will be used.

[I-am-not-really-here]

For investments, I buy stocks. Pens, ink 'em if you got 'em.

[wvbeetlebug]

sure, ink and write, why not? i only own one le pen and i inked it soon after it arrived. and i'm too old to hold onto something only to let someone else use it after i'm gone.

I like this thought.

[sandy101]

If you use your pens to write a masterpiece, then your pens will be far more valuable because you used them to write THAT piece.

 

Churchill's Montblanc sold for £22,000

Ian Fleming's typewriter went for over £55,000.

 

So, if you truly wish to increase the value of your pens - you should write with them - and write well.

Edited October 17, 2020 by sandy101

[A Smug Dill]

But did Churchill sell his own pen in his lifetime? Did Fleming sell his typewriter to recoup the acquisition cost of it and/or to raise money?

[Runnin_Ute]

The closest I have to a limited edition (not counting my Pelikan M200 Special Edition pens of which I have a couple) is my True Writer Silver Anniversary which was produced for the company's 25th Anniversary a few years ago. I bought it in first quarter 2013, but I first saw it in 2012 sometime. It gets used, but not as much as it once did. I last inked it in early August according to my ink journal.

Edited October 18, 2020 by Runnin_Ute

[jchch1950]

Limited edition pens can be so special that they are not user friendly, because the are too heavy or too big.Other limited editions can be very expensive and some people don't want to risk loosing or damaging them. I use them but I can understand that some one will keep them as objects of art .

[dojocho]

The question is 'do I buy pens because they are LE' or 'I like this pen and it happens to be a LE'. I buy pens beacuse I like them and I use them because I like them, LE or not.

My high school students in the woodworking workshop always wonder why I take my pens there, but it's important to teach them that utensils are ment to be used rather than displayed.

 

regards,

Hugo

Edited October 19, 2020 by dojocho

[corniche]

Hi all,

 

I know everyone is saying they use their pens no matter what - and that's great. But I don't think anyone is taking the OP's situation into account and are only speaking based on their own POV - exclusively.

 

Obviously, the OP is experiencing qualms and hesitation using this pen - I do not think those feelings should be so blithely disregarded. As i said before, you cannot unring a bell and odds are, the pen cannot be easily replaced.

 

To save the OP many regrets; I think the pen should be put aside until the OP REALLY WANTS to use it - then there won't be any regrets or recriminations to deal with.

 

Just my 2 cents.

 

 

- Sean

[Estycollector]

Hi all,

 

I know everyone is saying they use their pens no matter what - and that's great. But I don't think anyone is taking the OP's situation into account and are only speaking based on their own POV - exclusively.

 

Obviously, the OP is experiencing qualms and hesitation using this pen - I do not think those feelings should be so blithely disregarded. As i said before, you cannot unring a bell and odds are, the pen cannot be easily replaced.

 

To save the OP many regrets; I think the pen should be put aside until the OP REALLY WANTS to use it - then there won't be any regrets or recriminations to deal with.

 

Just my 2 cents.

 

 

- Sean

I agree Sean. It really doesnt matter what I think. There are many ways to enjoy.

[Estycollector]

Hi all,

 

I know everyone is saying they use their pens no matter what - and that's great. But I don't think anyone is taking the OP's situation into account and are only speaking based on their own POV - exclusively.

 

Obviously, the OP is experiencing qualms and hesitation using this pen - I do not think those feelings should be so blithely disregarded. As i said before, you cannot unring a bell and odds are, the pen cannot be easily replaced.

 

To save the OP many regrets; I think the pen should be put aside until the OP REALLY WANTS to use it - then there won't be any regrets or recriminations to deal with.

 

Just my 2 cents.

 

 

- Sean

I agree Sean. It really doesnt matter what I think. There are many ways to enjoy.

[Estycollector]

Hi all,

 

I know everyone is saying they use their pens no matter what - and that's great. But I don't think anyone is taking the OP's situation into account and are only speaking based on their own POV - exclusively.

 

Obviously, the OP is experiencing qualms and hesitation using this pen - I do not think those feelings should be so blithely disregarded. As i said before, you cannot unring a bell and odds are, the pen cannot be easily replaced.

 

To save the OP many regrets; I think the pen should be put aside until the OP REALLY WANTS to use it - then there won't be any regrets or recriminations to deal with.

 

Just my 2 cents.

 

 

- Sean

I agree Sean. It really doesnt matter what I think. There are many ways to enjoy.

[PAKMAN]

I've inked all of my LE pens and used them. I have purchased some vintage stickered unused pens and kept them that way as I bought them at a good price for resale later