I got this pen today

[Cjtamu]

Busier than a one-eyed man in a gentleman’s club today but too excited not to post this. Postman didn’t even have to ring once, I knew it was coming and heard the truck pull up. Jade green Sailor Magellan. Unlike the Nagasaki Matsuya one I have this one appears to have been meant for export, the writing is in English. Original blue velvet presentation box, instruction sheet, cartridges, and what I think is probably the original converter. Has a white piston. Even had the original cardboard box sleeve with the SKU and pen info on it. Soaking some dried what looks like kon-peki out right now, hoping to take it for a spin this evening.

[Scribs]

Scribo Flow Dimensione with 18k EF nib. I'm expecting the Forma to be forwarded to me in a couple of weeks. My order was accepted, now it's just a matter of a little patience.

[InkyProf]

Desiderata Pen Co. “Chiaroscuro,” in a very subtle blue-green ripple ebonite that Pierre calls “Wintergröene.*
 

*although I think if you’re going to combine the German umlaut AND the Dutch oe, you might as well throw in the ligature too (Old Norse?) and call it Wintergröœene.

He’s right, it’s a hard pen to photograph; but it’s really gorgeous.

 

[lamarax]

4 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

Desiderata Pen Co. “Chiaroscuro,” in a very subtle blue-green ripple ebonite that Pierre calls “Wintergröene.*
 

*although I think if you’re going to combine the German umlaut AND the Dutch oe, you might as well throw in the ligature too (Old Norse?) and call it Wintergröœene.

He’s right, it’s a hard pen to photograph; but it’s really gorgeous.

 

 

🫢 I've had my eye on this guy for quite a long time, but unfortunately getting his pens in Europe is prohibitive.

[Scribs]

2 hours ago, InkyProf said:

Desiderata Pen Co. “Chiaroscuro,” in a very subtle blue-green ripple ebonite that Pierre calls “Wintergröene.*
 

*although I think if you’re going to combine the German umlaut AND the Dutch oe, you might as well throw in the ligature too (Old Norse?) and call it Wintergröœene.

He’s right, it’s a hard pen to photograph; but it’s really gorgeous.

 

 

Nice looking pen there InkyProf!

[Scribs]

On 3/27/2026 at 8:28 PM, Cjtamu said:

Busier than a one-eyed man in a gentleman’s club today but too excited not to post this. Postman didn’t even have to ring once, I knew it was coming and heard the truck pull up. Jade green Sailor Magellan. Unlike the Nagasaki Matsuya one I have this one appears to have been meant for export, the writing is in English. Original blue velvet presentation box, instruction sheet, cartridges, and what I think is probably the original converter. Has a white piston. Even had the original cardboard box sleeve with the SKU and pen info on it. Soaking some dried what looks like kon-peki out right now, hoping to take it for a spin this evening.

 

That's one very juicy green you've got there. What kind of nib?

[inkstainedruth]

4 hours ago, lamarax said:

 

🫢 I've had my eye on this guy for quite a long time, but unfortunately getting his pens in Europe is prohibitive.

I got to one of the people play-testing his original models and had a couple of interesting phone calls talking about what I liked and didn't like.  Then I got to meet Pierre in person, the last year I went to DCSS, and he's the nicest person!  Then, a couple of years later, the one year I got out to the Chicago Pen Show, he had a pen at his table that I was just drooling over -- it was sort of marbled purple and yellow ebonite and it was just GORGEOUS.  But way, waay, WAAAAAY too rich for my blood   (and also a little hefty for me, as I recall... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InkyProf]

2 hours ago, Scribs said:

 

Nice looking pen there InkyProf!

 

Thank you! I hadn't realized until just now that your Scribo is also (24!) faceted ebonite. I like the look of that a lot -- more than other Scribos I've seen (I have never been partial to the "cinched waist" at the cap-barrel junction.) Someday I'll have to see if I can find one of those to handle in person. 

[Scribs]

@InkyProf I am really liking these facets a lot. It sounds like a crazy number, as if the pen would be crowded with them, but they come across as being very subtle. Scribo has done an amazing job.

[Doug C]

12 hours ago, InkyProf said:

 

Thank you! I hadn't realized until just now that your Scribo is also (24!) faceted ebonite. I like the look of that a lot -- more than other Scribos I've seen (I have never been partial to the "cinched waist" at the cap-barrel junction.) Someday I'll have to see if I can find one of those to handle in person. 

I have two of the Feels (cinched waist) that are also faceted (albeit fewer)  and they have an amazing 'feel' in the hand.

Scribos are really well made and designed pens. 

[InkyProf]

48 minutes ago, Doug C said:

I have two of the Feels (cinched waist) that are also faceted (albeit fewer)  and they have an amazing 'feel' in the hand.

Scribos are really well made and designed pens. 

 

Thanks -- I'll definitely try to (literally) get my hands on examples of each model. I like look of the materials a lot. What are the nibs like to write with? 

[Doug C]

12 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

 

Thanks -- I'll definitely try to (literally) get my hands on examples of each model. I like look of the materials a lot. What are the nibs like to write with? 

For me.  Wonderful!

[Anne-Sophie]

On 10/12/2025 at 5:39 PM, inkstainedruth said:

@awa54 A number of years ago I happened across a website that had a bunch of maki-e pens that were just drop dead GORGEOUS.  And after drooling over them (they really were works of art) I closed the window, looked over at my husband and said, "Congratulations!  I just saved you $20K US!"  And that was PER PEN!  

I just cannot take the risk.  Not after the last time I had poison ivy; and that came on so fast that it was maybe an hour after walking around in the woods with some other people north of Boston -- or, at best, was associated with what I'd originally thought was a spider bite on my arm earlier in the day (we had stopped at the CVS on Rt. 9 in Framingham to pick up some ointment on the way to meet the people at something south of Boston -- so, sometime between about 8:30 AM and about 2 PM for it to go systemic on me... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

On 10/11/2025 at 11:55 AM, inkstainedruth said:

They do look nice.  But you lost me at the word "urushi".  Because I know what that stuff is -- it's the same stuff that's in poison ivy and poison oak and I can't trust the pens coated in urushi to be sufficiently "cured" enough for me to NOT have an allergic reaction.  And the last time I had poison ivy?  Took several months and 3 rounds of steroids to knock it out of my system.  And a $400 water bill for that quarter because I was washing the bedding every day so as to NOT reinfect myself.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

The body and cap of the 2004 LE Lamy Safari Violet BlackBerry are a good color replacement for my favorite urushi color without the menace of an allergy reaction.

 

Reading about your experience with poison ivy, I am glad I  decided to stick with plastic and maybe a custom pen made of acrylic later on.  

 

[Misfit]

I received a Jinhao x750 Night Sky today. It joins my Shimmering Sands in sparkles. 

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, Anne-Sophie said:

 

 

 

The body and cap of the 2004 LE Lamy Safari Violet BlackBerry are a good color replacement for my favorite urushi color without the menace of an allergy reaction.

 

Reading about your experience with poison ivy, I am glad I  decided to stick with plastic and maybe a custom pen made of acrylic later on.  

 

Yeah, the two times in my life that I had poison ivy, it went systemic.   And I had it for a couple MONTHS both times -- not fun....  The scary part is that I had a friend in college who was completely immune and told this story about when he was at some Boy Scout campout someplace -- and was freaking out the other kids because he was just rolling around in a *bed* of poison ivy, for the fun of it (and to freak everyone else out...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Armo]

@InkyProf Don't know if you've seen this but if not you may be interested. The video is a review by the pen's creator.

 

 

[InkyProf]

Thanks, @Armo, I did watch that before I bought the Chiaroscuro.

 

(Among other things, it was helpful to know in advance that this was a bulb-filler with a silicone sac. Now that I have a couple of pens with sacs of that material, I need to add something to my desk setup for storing those pens when they're filled; my usual flat-on-the-desk pen tray will not do, as I learned with a Waterman 7.)

 

(I also love that Pierre has a hoodie emblazoned with the logo of his one-person company.) 

[Cjtamu]

On 3/28/2026 at 6:38 PM, Scribs said:

 

That's one very juicy green you've got there. What kind of nib?

Broad. Very nice

[pan101]

Just got a 1990 Montblanc 149 medium 18k nib to complete my set of Meisterstucks. 

[lascosas]

Congratulations on the set!