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I've lost count. I would say that I have around 200 maybe 300 fountain pens.

 

Same here. Starting out you get all excited and buy way too many then, at some point, you start slowing down once you realize it's not how many you have but how many you actually use. In my case, I'm down to 5 or 6 in my daily rotation, along with another 6 - 8 that I use more occasionally.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Im somewhere between 175 and 200 working, I think. I think I have about another 75 or so awaiting repair/restoration. I clean up one or two every couple of weeks but there are some I wont ever bother restoring.

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Im somewhere between 175 and 200 working, I think. I think I have about another 75 or so awaiting repair/restoration. I clean up one or two every couple of weeks but there are some I wont ever bother restoring.

Same me! arround 200 Conways and 50 of them wait to be restored.

 

22 of them are from 286th range. Is there somebody wich has and want to sell the "Autumn leaves" the "Uniform Choccolate Brown" or the " Marbled burgundy ink visible"?

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I do have others, but yes, around three hundred CS pens. :D

 

Not showing this post to my husband -- he already says, when I read threads like this one and various ink ones "This is NOT a competition...."

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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Not showing this post to my husband -- he already says, when I read threads like this one and various ink ones "This is NOT a competition...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

LOL. I, on the other hand, will gladly show this to my wife!

 

Other people have three hundred pens??! Why, I only have 11, so I am being quite reasonable in this hobby indeed!

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Why, I only have 11, so I am being quite reasonable in this hobby indeed!

 

 

Quite reasonably new, you mean?

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LOL. I, on the other hand, will gladly show this to my wife!

 

Other people have three hundred pens??! Why, I only have 11, so I am being quite reasonable in this hobby indeed!

 

Not if you have 11 MB Hemingways. Then it's probably equally crazy :D

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Quite reasonably new, you mean?

LOL. Yes, I am still new to FP's compared to some of us here. I got my first one in high school some 20 years ago, but I didn't get serious about FPs until the month I joined FPN.

 

I don't see myself having more than 15 or 20 "nice" pens though. The Wing Sungs don't count, so basically I'm at 6 pens, 7 if you count the Conklin All American (I really like it, so I guess it counts). Room to grow!!

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Not if you have 11 MB Hemingways. Then it's probably equally crazy :D

If we are measuring the level of crazy by dollars spent then, yes, I'd agree. I try not to think about the price of any given pen though, lol... Edited by sirgilbert357
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LOL. Yes, I am still new to FP's compared to some of us here. I got my first one in high school some 20 years ago, but I didn't get serious about FPs until the month I joined FPN.

 

I don't see myself having more than 15 or 20 "nice" pens though. The Wing Sungs don't count, so basically I'm at 6 pens, 7 if you count the Conklin All American (I really like it, so I guess it counts). Room to grow!!

 

Hah! I said something very similar when I started here. Of course, I *also* said I couldn't envision ever paying more that about $50 US for a pen.... :blush:

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"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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