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Freddy Donor Pen

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Trio of Omas pens:

 

Tokyo pif

Jerusalem 3000 SE pif

Old style Milord {556} pif

filled with the blues

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the same old batch of Vac Fills:

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Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

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To sate my curiosity, I bought the cheapest Music-nibbed Sailor fountain pen I could find.

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I don't think I've come across a Sailor with a snap cap before, so it was a surprise to find this pen has one.

I'm also very surprised by how its nib performs almost identically to the Aurora Stub nib (although I don't have an Aurora with a steel Stub nib against which to do a like-for-like comparison):
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I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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Freddy Donor Pen

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Sheaffer Legacy 1 {848} Ag w/a vermeil cap band

Omas Paragon old style 557

Blue inks..................................... .............................

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Fred

 

"We are imprisoned in an endless sea of ice, and find our horizon monotonous. We have told all the

tales, real and imaginative....time weighs heavily upon us as the darkness slowly advances.."

~ Frederick Cook, doctor onboard the Belgica....

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Helen350 Antique

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Tourneau MMXV - M. Nib. Ink: Private Reserve Avocado

Hua Hong - M. Nib. Ink: Diamine Syrah

LingMo Lorelei - F/M Nib. Ink: Diamine Sherwood Green

 

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inkstainedruth Ancient Artifact

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To sate my curiosity, I bought the cheapest Music-nibbed Sailor fountain pen I could find.

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I don't think I've come across a Sailor with a snap cap before, so it was a surprise to find this pen has one.

 

I'm also very surprised by how its nib performs almost identically to the Aurora Stub nib (although I don't have an Aurora with a steel Stub nib against which to do a like-for-like comparison):

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Thanks for posting the written exemplars. If I ever get another Sailor Pro-Gear Slim, a music nib might just be up my alley....

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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como Collectors Item

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I took the time to fit a new cork seal into this Montblanc 244G. You can see the new cork seal through the ink window.

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Beechwood Donor Pen

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Today I am using, if that is the right word for filling the pens and remembering how they write, three Parker 51s with a vacumatic fill.

 

All three have seen some life, but all work perfectly well.

 

The colors are not as clear as they could be, if this is of interest to you they are in Dove Grey, note how the blind cap has changed its hue, a Cedar Blue which has a faint ink stain ring and a Cordovan Brown which is trying its best to be a burgundy.

 

 

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Penman222 Vintage

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Just filled the Edison Herald in Honey Tortoise with IroshizukuTsukushi for my May daily writer. I always have the Snorkel desk pen filled with either Lamy Blue, Lamy Blue-Black, or Lamy Black.

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Lots of diverse writing today (highlighting, annotating, decorating):

 

Pelikan M800; M (wide, even by Pelikan standards, really a broad), inked with Iroshizuku Tsukushi.

Edison Premier; M, inked with Iroshizuku Yama-guri.

Edison Extended Mina; EF, inked with Iroshizuku Kon-peki.

Pelikan M600; M, inked also with Kon-peki.

Pelikan M600; B, inked with Edelstein Sapphire.

Pelikan M205; F, inked with 4001 Brilliant Brown.

Pelikan M215; I; inked with 4001 Brilliant Brown.

Pelikan M205; EF, inked with Edelstein Olivine.

 

Edit: Oh, and an Edison Herald; M, inked with Fritz Schimpf Sundowner.

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Nyoko Mint

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I have been using these pens for the past week:

- Opus 88 Fantasia - stub - Diamine Fire Embers
- Opus 88 Bela - stub - Blackstone Barrier Reef Blue
- Herbert Pen Church Hill - B nib - Robert Oster Frankly Blue
- Pilot VP Tropical Turquoise - stub - Iroshizuku ku-jaku
- Visconti Homo Sapiens - M nib - Iroshizuku tsuki-yo
- Stipula Iris - F nib - Parker Permanent Blue

 

 

Hope everyone is staying well!

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The colors are not as clear as they could be, if this is of interest to you they are in Dove Grey, note how the blind cap has changed its hue, a Cedar Blue which has a faint ink stain ring and a Cordovan Brown which is trying its best to be a burgundy.

 

It could be worse -- you could have a Burgundy trying to masquerade as Cordovan Brown.... :rolleyes:

I've noticed that there is some difference in color between the barrel and blind cap on my Dove Gray 51 Vac, but it's not as extreme as on yours. To the best of my knowledge, both of my Cedar Blues have no discoloration.

 

So.... For me today, it was an "empty and flush day". So I finished the Noodler's Cobalt Flex Piston Creaper, flex nib, with diluted Noodler's Heart of Darkness and the Aqua Blue Parker Vector, M nib, with diluted Noodler's Park Red; then finished up my morning pages journal with the Forest Green Parker 51 Aero, EF nib, and (IIRC) diluted vintage Quink Washable Blue -- all of which just to get through today's morning pages entry. The Vector is now flushed and draining in paper toweling; the FPC is still soaking a bit; I'll check in a little while to see if it needs to have more distilled water run through it, before it too goes into the paper toweling.

Since then, I've added the Noodler's ebonite Konrad, flex nib, with Noodler's 54th Massachusetts (I had to sign a dividend check that came in the mail) and I've also got the Parker 75 Ciselé, B nib, with J Herbin Eclat de Saphir, at the ready.

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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Freddy Donor Pen

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Fred

Take nothing for granted as nothing is permanent and anything can disappear.

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N1003U Collectors Item

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Bic Easy Clic is the current pen Up for duty.

The Bic fountain pens have a very interesting design. I have never tried one, but I will at next opportunity.

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Something of a mixed bag again for me today, pen-wise (inks, OTOH, are all forms the blues):

1) TWSBI 580-ALR, 1.1 mm stub nib, with R&K Salix. And still cannot get the pen to write with the nib in normal orientation -- but works when upside down.... :headsmack:

2) Noodler's ebonite Konrad, flex nib, with Noodler's 54th Massachusetts.

3) Parker 51, F nib (the Teal Aero which started it all), with Birmingham Pens Cathedral of Learning Panther Blue.

 

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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