$5000 Cash To Spend - Which Pen?

[ele]

A bunch of super nice vintage mont blancs or vintage omas pens. What else?

[FPFan]

If money was no object, I'd buy a set of Nakayas in every nib size available! Now, let's see . . . which model - color? Hummm. . . Choices, choices!

 

But just one aka-tamenuri would be okay at this point to see what all the fuss is about!

[jar]

There's no particular pen out there that I want, but if something happens to come up at a reasonable price then I would consider it.

[pavoni]

Got to go with Yolrgrand......$5k = a superb early MB 139

 

Pavoni.

[Sblakers]

I agree with the MB 139. You could get a beautiful one at that price point

Edited January 19, 2013 by Sblakers

[Runnin_Ute]

I wouldn't spend $5000 on a pen, however if I had $5000 and could spend all or part and still keep whatever was left and use it on anything else I wanted, I would probably spend $500-1000 on a pen. What pen? No idea. I would also spend >$1000 on a very nice watch to go with it. Say something with a Valjoux 7750 chrono - or even a moonphase. There are a variety of tourbillon movement watches available (chinese movements) in the $800-2000 range from companies such as Invicta, Android, and Stuhrling Original. You go Swiss Tourbillon and they START at about 50K and can go to 7 figures. So maybe go 3k on a nice Swiss branded watch and use the remaining on pen or pens.

[iamchum]

Get a Nakaya you like then spend the rest on a holiday so you can write about it

[GallBladder]

I have never heard of those two makers, but Im googleing

Can I ask, politely, how you got 77 posts on the Fountain Pen Network and have never heard of Sheaffer, and to a much lesser extent, Nakaya?

 

I admit not knowing of Nakaya either until I joined the forum myself, but Sheaffer (and Parker) are the world's best known pen brands and have been for over a hundred years.

 

As to $5000, why stop there, especially since you mention Ferraris, make it $10,000 or $100,000. There are pens you can buy for $10,000.

 

David

Edited January 19, 2013 by GallBladder

[Pen2009]

I will go for a MB Alfred Hitchcock and a MB Masters for Meisterstuck L’aubrac.

[Montblanc owner and lover]

well in that range of price pelikan makes very nice maki-e

[CoolFool]

I'd probably order something gaudy from Gisi pens.

 

 

But frankly, I'd be happier ordering 5-12 custom pens from Gisi and guys like Brian Gray, and Shawn Newton.

[arcaneradio]

If I had 5000 dollars I might buy 50 dollar fountain pen and then re-roof my house.

[two2tone]

I buy a Pelikan M600 for $300 during my two-week trip through Germany for $4,700.

[inkstainedruth]

I just couldn't spend that amount of money on one pen. look at.......

 

Yes, you could ! You could buy MY Pelikan Souveran M1000. I'd sweeten with a full

bottle of Noodler's Eel ink of your choice. Free shipping. (It was worth a try.)

:ltcapd:

 

This offer is open to everyone out there.

 

:ltcapd:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[MyDarnSnakeLegs]

Oh, I don't know. Probably 8 Visconti Homo Sapiens for me and my friends.

[Salerno_AFG]

I have never heard of those two makers, but Im googleing

Can I ask, politely, how you got 77 posts on the Fountain Pen Network and have never heard of Sheaffer, and to a much lesser extent, Nakaya?

 

I admit not knowing of Nakaya either until I joined the forum myself, but Sheaffer (and Parker) are the world's best known pen brands and have been for over a hundred years.

 

As to $5000, why stop there, especially since you mention Ferraris, make it $10,000 or $100,000. There are pens you can buy for $10,000.

 

David

 

I just couldn't spend that amount of money on one pen. Not unless I had more money than I knew what to do with. If ordered to do so {), I would almost certainly commission a bespoke pen. Or just be plain stupid and buy a Lepine Graphyscaf to sit and look at.......

 

 

Sorry, the above makers where the two I had never heard of....

[79spitfire]

I buy a Pelikan M600 for $300 during my two-week trip through Germany for $4,700.

Or a Conway-Stuart on my tour of England....

[Sir Ebnick]

S.T. Dupont Samourai pen. May not be the beest writer (not that i would know) but easily the coolest fountain pen i have ever seen.

[beo]

Any Montblanc LE pens. Suggested: gandhi or einstein

[ethernautrix]

Just to play the game -- somehow the five grand in my hands is good only for buying a pen, won't buy food or rent or whatever else, just a pen, just ONE pen, then I would order a custom Nakaya or Danitrio, with maki-e or raden or both, but not too much. It probably won't even cost $5,000, but that's the pen I would buy with the money that is good only for buying one fountain pen.