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Baby It's Cold Outside.... So I Bought My First Esty Icicle!

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Very good. It will be lonely. I know of a silver one looking for a home. :lticaptd:

For $23.50? :-)

John L

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Probably not but your $23.50er didn't come fully restored either. ;)

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

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I'm not opposed to adding a Silver one to the collection.

 

PM me a price, I might be interested.

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I am smelling new avatar pic.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl-I completely agree on the straw hat and cane

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Nicely done Estiecicle listing.

 

The background for the listing format thingie even matches the pen.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

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Nicely done Estiecicle listing.

 

The background for the listing format thingie even matches the pen.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

 

It must have been pretty effective. It sold a lot higher than I expected. I'm very happy.

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Dang man, well sold! I just finished restoring my greeny meany Estycicle, and I must say, it came out beautifully! Don't think I'll be able to part with this one, it's just to purty.

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<whisper> I have an Estie about to head my way <whisper>

 

Now, you'll have to use your imagination for this bit. I'm doing a little furtive kind of jig and I have the beginnings of a smile on my face!

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Appears to be a lovely Mexican made green one. This will be my first Icicle!

 

I'm kinda excited!

 

http://goo.gl/ed7bqV

Ah, you lucky fiend! I was bidding on that one, too! Well, at least it went to a good home -- couldn't ask for better than to lose to a fellow FPN'er, if I was gonna lose. :D

"Well, believe me, I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid... and I went ahead anyway."

--Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

My Flickr, if you're interested

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It's already up on the block. The nice thing is the Broad nib bonus.

 

...I really need a straw hat and cane when I do this...

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221721786635?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Normally I'm not much for Icicles -- I prefer the mackerel coloration -- but that silver one is quite nice. Way beyond my price point for an Estie, but nice.

When you said you needed a straw hat and cane, all I could think of was the scene from the old movie Idiot's Delight, when Clark Gable (as a relatively bad vaudevillian, does "Putting on the Ritz").

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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Normally I'm not much for Icicles -- I prefer the mackerel coloration -- but that silver one is quite nice. Way beyond my price point for an Estie, but nice.

When you said you needed a straw hat and cane, all I could think of was the scene from the old movie Idiot's Delight, when Clark Gable (as a relatively bad vaudevillian, does "Putting on the Ritz").

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I was thinking about Marlon Brando in the Island of Dr Moreau, but with pens instead of animals.

 

Hehee

John L

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