What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[A Smug Dill]

49 minutes ago, Misfit said:

decreasing the size of a pen collection does not compute. 

 

Sometimes pens break, and have to be tossed out if it isn't feasible or cost-effective to repair.

[ruby.monkey]

8 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

A while back I acquired and subsequently sold a similar pen. the major difference was that the nib I had was 14k gold and said, IIRC, (Conklin?) Toledo. The Conklin brand was purchased by a Chicago based company (late 30's, I think, and they, as I recall, went down-scale as far as quality. You may have one of those pens. As for me, I ended up quickly selling my pen to a friend (he made me an offer) for $60.00 as it was in good condition on the outside and he was planning to clean it a put in a new sac anyway.

My dip test was nice and it was a good writer. My original purchase of the pen was at a flea market, with a bunch of other pens) and I intended to clean/restore the pen and sell it at local pen show. It was a nice looking pen with most of the plating still intact.

 

Enjoy you new pen.

Thank you. Yes, the Glider was I think the first of the not-really-a-Conklin pens. Plating aside this was still a pretty pen, and cheap with it. The nib looks to be in original condition, but I'll know better when I have it in hand.

[PithyProlix]

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Sometimes pens break, and have to be tossed out if it isn't feasible or cost-effective to repair.

 

I am referring to a reduction that is significantly more than a tiny fraction of a percent. 😉

[Gloucesterman]

10 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Maybe others are just less observant and less tuned in than you expect.

 

Congratulations!

+1

[vicpen123]

Traveler's Company brass fountain pen.

 

Tiny but writes well.

[Gloucesterman]

I wouldn't really call my most recent buy impulsive, maybe "semi-impulsive". LOL

 

Jumped on a LAMY Stainless Steel 2000 w/ an OM nib. I have the regular Makralon(?) one with the same  nib and I like it a great deal. Also bought a new blue  Navalur Nautilus Faroe Marine with a 1.1 stub nib. Endless Pens has some great prices (No Affiliation) in my opinion and I just couldn't resist. Although Black Friday Sale purchases are NOT returnable getting back the money I paid for the pens should not be any problem.

 

I had a gift card to use so out-of-pocket money was small.

[Misfit]

I stopped my impulse. Pure Pens has the Parker IM special edition Portal or Last Frontier fountain pen for $32. I was so tempted, at bedtime when I was supposed to try to sleep. But shipping is $12. So I managed to hit the back button from PayPal, and not purchase it.  

[Penguincollector]

55 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I stopped my impulse. Pure Pens has the Parker IM special edition Portal or Last Frontier fountain pen for $32. I was so tempted, at bedtime when I was supposed to try to sleep. But shipping is $12. So I managed to hit the back button from PayPal, and not purchase it.  

There’s a blue Parker IM Monochrome that keeps going in and out of my Amazon cart. Baby steps.

[BlueJ]

This:

 

https://www.levenger.com/collections/true-writers/products/true-writer-classic-sapphire-mosaic-fountain-pen?variant=43162913570965

 

 

[Misfit]

@BlueJ I like Levenger True Writer fountain pens. I hope you enjoy your Sapphire model. Please post photos. Sometimes online photos don’t show pens quite right. 

[BlueJ]

I should have the Levenger in about a week and will take some photos. True to my moniker I do like marbled blue pens and Tibaldi Imperios don't exactly grow on trees.

[Armo]

I have finally aquired a burgundy Parker 51 - not a British burgundy or blood red but a real burgundy. These seem to be strangely rare over on this side of the pond.

[inkstainedruth]

As opposed to "British bloody burgundy" -- which, if you can find one in the US at ALL, is unbelievably expensive....  As in, rarer (if not QUITE as pricy) as a full sized Plum 51....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Arkanabar]

I went on AliExpress and ordered eight Jinhao 82 F nib pens.  I might have been better served with a small stack of small USB drives, as I am back to fooling around with Linux.

[Penguincollector]

  I’m heading to the PDX Pen Bazaar this afternoon, so I don’t know what I will come home with, but it will definitely be impulsive and most likely vintage. For those of you in the Portland, OR area: 1-5 pm event room at the Lucky Lab in NW Portland Saturday and Sunday. 
  

ETA: I was just given carte blanche for the Bazaar and/or ordering the Nettuno button filler I have been considering. I’m going to see what catches my eye and compare.

[inkstainedruth]

No more pens (at the moment, anyway).  But tossed in a few ink samples in with the Goulet Pens Black Friday sale yesterday along with a couple of bottles of Namiki Blue.  Had my husband try the ink yesterday (I had gotten samples from Pen Chalet which came last week) and inked up the blue Snorkel with a partial fill to see if he liked it.  And being a couple of books off the usual US distributor price?  Bought two bottles to be on the safe side (which turned out to be a good idea since he likes the color).  

Of course, he still hasn't figured out what he's done with the blue Safari he had me get him last spring when I was ordering this year's al-Star SE....   For that matter, he doesn't know what he's done with the three pens he bought at an antiques fair in the next county (forget what the third pen was, but there was some model Waterman and a Parker 51 or 51 Special, I think).  I was going to wait till I zoomed around the other vendor tables but he decided to go ahead and buy them then and there.  I think they were about $4 US apiece -- and I don't know as to whether the seller realized that the Waterman cap was on the Parker pen and vice versa....  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Jadie]

Back when I moved houses during the pandemic my beloved Pilot Vanishing Point (radeb stripes even!) vanished as well. After scouring the entire house and boxes with no luck, I thought to myself, “well what’s gone is gone” and eventually got a Pilot Fermo to replace it for my retractable pen nib dreams.

 

But the Fermo, while lovely, is a twist nib while the VP clicks. It just didn’t feel the same…still, none of the limited editions VPs or regular line offerings appealed to me in the past few years. Then while browsing for inks I found Yoseka Stationery’s site and discovered Pilot had made a special VP for their 30th anniversary in Taiwan that they were selling from

their shop. It was a dark matte green body with gold trim + nib, limited to just 600 pieces and looking gorgeous as anything. 

 

I loved the color, the LE, and Taiwan so it was a no-brainer. I pressed purchase on that baby (along with some super cool sheeny ink samples from Diamine + Ink Institute) and can’t wait to see it come home (and what number LE I got out of 600)!

[dms525]

Black Friday 2023 hit me hard. My latest (but not only) impulsive buy was a Pilot Custom 845 Urushi Red. Besides the discount, the pen was available with a BB nib and by a vendor that has a nib technician that has ground some really splendid cursive italic nibs for me. Triple whammy.

 

David

[Surlyprof]

8 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

For those of you in the Portland, OR area: 1-5 pm event room at the Lucky Lab in NW Portland Saturday and Sunday. 

I miss the Lucky Lab.  That and Mt. Tabor were two of the best places in Portland to hang with the dog.  First dog washes and now a pen bazaar?!  The place keeps getting better.  Good luck finding something fantastic.

[Penguincollector]

On 11/25/2023 at 5:32 PM, Surlyprof said:

I miss the Lucky Lab.  That and Mt. Tabor were two of the best places in Portland to hang with the dog.  First dog washes and now a pen bazaar?!  The place keeps getting better.  Good luck finding something fantastic.

  Thanks!  The Lucky Lab is a fun place to hold our meetings.  I walk up to Tabor pretty often, I used to run there until pretty recently. They’re going to fill the reservoirs back up, apparently. I hope they restart the fountain, too. Portland is a bit busier and a little more crowded than it was, but it’s still fantastic. 
  
  Oh, my impulse buys were a Pilot Lizard in F (this is not a lizard  pen, it’s a sheepskin pen, thanks to @PithyProlix for clearing that up) Sheaffer slim Targa in M, and not really an impulse as I had seen it before and liked it, a 1928 jade Parker Duofold Lady ring top in F.