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Look what was just delivered! I wasnt expecting this until the new year, but thanks to La Couronne du Comte they have sent me part of my order early, just in time to have a new pen to play with tomorrow! For once I think Im going to defer the pleasure!

 

Wishing all FPN members a happy and peaceful festive season

 

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OOOH -- What'd you get?
My Christmas present came early but I didn't get it inked up until last week. Just a Parker Vector, but NOS (still in the blister pack); one of the "Geometric" designs, but different from my first one, in that it's got four colors instead of just three like the first one (which unfortunately has gone missing). And like the first 'Geometric", it's US production (most of my Vectors are UK-made, except for the French-made purple one, a re-issue from last spring).

I also got an interesting-looking book -- a facsimile reprint of a heraldry book from 1610.

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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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OOOH -- What'd you get?

My Christmas present came early but I didn't get it inked up until last week. Just a Parker Vector, but NOS (still in the blister pack); one of the "Geometric" designs, but different from my first one, in that it's got four colors instead of just three like the first one (which unfortunately has gone missing). And like the first 'Geometric", it's US production (most of my Vectors are UK-made, except for the French-made purple one, a re-issue from last spring).

I also got an interesting-looking book -- a facsimile reprint of a heraldry book from 1610.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Well I’m not opening it until tomorrow but seeing as I’m the one who ordered it I can reveal that it’s a Metaxas & Sins Stylos. I ordered the orange and the grey after seeing SBRE Brown’s video and what you can do with two colours, and it’s the grey that has arrived - should really be the orange for the toe of my Christmas stocking, but hey!

 

I’ve got a soft spot for Vectors, they were one of my earliest pens and when the cap cracked my brother bought me a new one. Yours sounds an interesting colour - any pix? And Ruth, I hope that for 2020 no more of your pens go missing, and the ones that have turn up safe and sound!

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season's greetings!

my latest pen arrived a couple of days ago, I resisted the impulse to open it, and put it under the tree! It's one of those larger square boxes, looks like a wrapped box of chocolates... but it's not! :D

My (now grown up) kids, confiscated my last bottle of ink before I could open it, and wrapped that up too!

happy holidays!

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Well I’m not opening it until tomorrow but seeing as I’m the one who ordered it I can reveal that it’s a Metaxas & Sins Stylos. I ordered the orange and the grey after seeing SBRE Brown’s video and what you can do with two colours, and it’s the grey that has arrived - should really be the orange for the toe of my Christmas stocking, but hey!

 

I’ve got a soft spot for Vectors, they were one of my earliest pens and when the cap cracked my brother bought me a new one. Yours sounds an interesting colour - any pix? And Ruth, I hope that for 2020 no more of your pens go missing, and the ones that have turn up safe and sound!

 

Thanks on all accounts. Especially that last -- I panicked last night when I got to the hotel last night and couldn't find the Pro Gear Slim Purple Cosmos, which I got lucky on finding last spring when they were largely sold out everywhere.

I keep meaning to take photos of the pen, especially the date code, because I can't get a good feel on what the second letter is (it's the modern style date codes). Someone at Parker told me that the Geometrics were made in the mid-1990s, but couldn't tell me more than that. :huh:

I actually had to filch a converter from a different Vector (the pen came with a cartridge of Washable Blue) -- that's when I discovered that I didn't have enough of the slim twist converters to go around! I could have ordered them, but it was more fun to go to Fountain Pen Hospital when I was in NYC yesterday, and say "I need six of the Parker slim twist converters...." (I think that should do for the time being B) -- a few of the Vectors still had the slide converters, but I hate those and think they're hard to work).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: I just did a search for your Christmas pen, bbs. The barrel shape reminds me a bit of the Cross Verve, but hopefully doesn't have the poorly thought out 2-piece nib that the Verves have (which looks cool, but it's really easy to get ink all over your fingers because there's not a separate section per se. I like the look of the Titanium and the Pink in particular.

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