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Good evening!

 

On a recent vacation to Athens, Greece with my husband and friends, we discovered a really awesome stationery shop with a small but interesting and carefully curated selection of pens, notebooks, and other office supplies (The Paper Place). They had a Pelikan M205 in Amethyst in a display case, and being a huge fan of anything purple, it immediately caught my eye. At the time I wasn't willing to shell out €140 for a pen, but the nice experience in the shop stuck with me.

 

When I got back home I had to look up the pen to see if I could find out what it was. Researching fountain pens rekindled the fascination I have had with them since I was a little girl. As a kid I searched high and low for a fountain pen (who knows how I got the idea in my head -- I don't remember) but the generic one I finally found at a drugstore in my Grandparent's little town in upstate NY didn't function well and was really just a big disappointment.

 

Of course I ended up writing to the shop to inquire about the pen and ended up buying it (as well as their last bottle of Amethyst ink) even though I live in Germany, where I could have probably found a less expensive one. But I knew that pen would be the start of a collection, and it wouldn't have been the same if it weren't the one that caught my eye that day. Unfortunately I am now also understanding what it means to collect fountain pens -- there will always be the next pen that tickles my fancy and has to be part of my collection!

 

For now my focus has been on Pelikan, Lamy and Pilot. In fact I just ordered a Vanishing Point in the Raden Galaxy finish after enjoying my Decimo so thoroughly. It feels weird to buy what could be my "holy grail" so early on in my collecting days, but I just couldn't resist. I have also tried out a Jinhao as well as a Hero 616 just for kicks.

 

I take a lot of notes during the day in meetings at work, but my new hobby has also pushed me to get back into journaling, and I'm hoping I might even send off the occasional letter as well. It's all so much more pleasant with a nice writing utensil in hand! Now I just have to get better at rotating through the pens so that I don't ink up too many at once :)

 

This forum has already been incredibly useful to me (the reviews are amazing and the wealth of information can't be beat -- there is an expert here for everything). Thanks for having me as a part of your community! (Also thanks for reading -- this got longer than expected...)

 

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Thank you for your lovely introduction and welcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego.

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Welcome aboard, from Charleston, SC. I enjoyed your introductory story. Have fun writing and collecting.

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Welcome !


I am glad you like it enough to buy it. What use is money, but to give you joy ?

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Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Welcome to our warm nook of the internet, where you can share this beautiful hobby with good and friendly people. Or as we say in low Saxon: Mooi a'j dr bint! (Good you're here.)

Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde.

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Good morning!

 

What a great introduction, and what a great start to a fountain pen collection.

 

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Welcome from another new user!

 

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Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I found out long ago.

~C.S. Lewis

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Edison Menlo <m italic>, Lamy 2000 <EF>, Wing Sung 601 <F>

Pilot VP <F>, Pilot Metropolitan <F>, Pilot Penmanship <EF>

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Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

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Hello and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

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