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Took a break from visiting family yesterday to search for project pens at a local antique mall.  Got this Flat Top for $20, making the hour of wandering through others' castoffs worth it.  The barrel is not quite as yellow as in the picture, but it is distinctly different from the cap.

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On 3/13/2023 at 6:40 PM, Penguincollector said:

Your 823 is gorgeous!

 

It's quite a story of how it came to be my pen, but it is now my EDC.  @Frank C is quite the enabler, as I saw his pens.  I put the 823 on my bucket list along with an Aurora 88.

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Smug, that is a very interesting Diplomat....

What sort of nib? Nail, semi-nail (like a P-75/400-600) or regular flex? Regular flex=like a Pelikan 200.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

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The white Attaché I had in my Diplomat collection got damaged, sadly, but thankfully I know a trusty source that still has a few NOS pens from the 80-90s. Couldn’t decide which of these I wanted so I got both to make up for the sadness of damage to a favorite pen. The only drawback is that this now requires me to do a sub collection of gold and silver pens 🤷‍♀️

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19 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

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How do you like the Matrix? And that’s a nice looking Pelikan! Hope it wasn’t damaged along with the box.

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This arrived early this morning, in less than 72 hours from its ‘dispatch’ from Amazon's warehouse in Japan.

 

Platinum #3776 Sterling Silver Pin Stripe with an 18K gold version of the typically shaped #3776 F nib. A total fingerprint magnet of a pen!

 

(Almost sadly) I like it better in every way, on first impressions, than the Platinum #3776 Century ‘The Prime’ in sterling silver, except for the fact that the 100th anniversary commemorative edition pen is fitted with Slip & Seal but this pen isn't.

 

8 hours ago, DvdRiet said:

How do you like the Matrix?

 

I haven't inked it up yet. The feel of it in hand, mainly on account of the texture of the black metal, is nicer than I expected. The incised lines on it with the green showing through can be a tiny bit sharp at the edges, so I'm glad I didn't get the Diplomat Elox Ring instead, as I imagine the edges on the rings would be felt even more keenly. It's also sufficiently different from the Diplomat Aero; and I think it now stops me from keep teetering on the edge of getting another Aero (in champagne, green, turquoise, or grey).

 

Can't quite decide on a green ink with which to fill it, and the several I quickly swatched with q-tips late last night weren't good matches. I think GvFC Viper Green ink, of which I only have in cartridges, is the go, although with today being St Patrick's Day, perhaps I should put Montblanc Irish Green in it.

 

8 hours ago, DvdRiet said:

And that’s a nice looking Pelikan! Hope it wasn’t damaged along with the box.

 

Thanks. It wasn't damaged. The nib writes a little more broad than I like, but still not as bad as some of the Pelikan M200 F nibs with globby tipping I've seen, so I suppose I can live with that. Maybe I'll put an iron-gall ink in the pen to tame the line width.

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21 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Platinum #3776 Sterling Silver Pin Stripe with an 18K gold version of the typically shaped #3776 F nib. A total fingerprint magnet of a pen!...Slip & Seal but this pen isn't.

That's beautiful. If it writes as good as it looks it may not be put aside long enough to need a Slip & Seal cap!

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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After the above... something a wee bit more toward the humble end of pens...

 

I was surprised when there was a package waiting at the post office for me today. Nothing expected, I thought. It was the Jinhao Morandi pens ordered only 12 days ago!

 

They're very cute and I do love the two-tone colours. Noticeably reminiscent of a Kakuno - a mere mm or two difference in the body length, but otherwise one could swap them. The caps don't exchange either. And no Smiley on the nib. So close, in the hand it would be difficult to tell them apart with the eyes closed. Converter included, including shipping and tax, about AU$4.

 

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Will work for pens... :unsure:

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I got it yesterday, but I’m a bit under the weather so I didn’t get around to it until today. This is my Geha 722. It still had green ink in it.

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On 3/16/2023 at 1:49 PM, DvdRiet said:

The white Attaché I had in my Diplomat collection got damaged, sadly, but thankfully I know a trusty source that still has a few NOS pens from the 80-90s. Couldn’t decide which of these I wanted so I got both to make up for the sadness of damage to a favorite pen. The only drawback is that this now requires me to do a sub collection of gold and silver pens 🤷‍♀️

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Those are spectacular!

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On 3/17/2023 at 3:57 AM, AmandaW said:

After the above... something a wee bit more toward the humble end of pens...

 

I was surprised when there was a package waiting at the post office for me today. Nothing expected, I thought. It was the Jinhao Morandi pens ordered only 12 days ago!

 

They're very cute and I do love the two-tone colours. Noticeably reminiscent of a Kakuno - a mere mm or two difference in the body length, but otherwise one could swap them. The caps don't exchange either. And no Smiley on the nib. So close, in the hand it would be difficult to tell them apart with the eyes closed. Converter included, including shipping and tax, about AU$4.

 

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What a cute set!

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On 3/16/2023 at 10:40 PM, A Smug Dill said:

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This arrived early this morning, in less than 72 hours from its ‘dispatch’ from Amazon's warehouse in Japan.

 

Platinum #3776 Sterling Silver Pin Stripe with an 18K gold version of the typically shaped #3776 F nib. A total fingerprint magnet of a pen!

 

(Almost sadly) I like it better in every way, on first impressions, than the Platinum #3776 Century ‘The Prime’ in sterling silver, except for the fact that the 100th anniversary commemorative edition pen is fitted with Slip & Seal but this pen isn't.

 

 

I haven't inked it up yet. The feel of it in hand, mainly on account of the texture of the black metal, is nicer than I expected. The incised lines on it with the green showing through can be a tiny bit sharp at the edges, so I'm glad I didn't get the Diplomat Elox Ring instead, as I imagine the edges on the rings would be felt even more keenly. It's also sufficiently different from the Diplomat Aero; and I think it now stops me from keep teetering on the edge of getting another Aero (in champagne, green, turquoise, or grey).

 

Can't quite decide on a green ink with which to fill it, and the several I quickly swatched with q-tips late last night weren't good matches. I think GvFC Viper Green ink, of which I only have in cartridges, is the go, although with today being St Patrick's Day, perhaps I should put Montblanc Irish Green in it.

 

 

Thanks. It wasn't damaged. The nib writes a little more broad than I like, but still not as bad as some of the Pelikan M200 F nibs with globby tipping I've seen, so I suppose I can live with that. Maybe I'll put an iron-gall ink in the pen to tame the line width.

Both the Platinum and the Pelikan are absolutely gorgeous!  

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I'm sure your 722 balances as well as my 725...a thin medium long pen with fantastic balance.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I'm sure your 722 balances as well as my 725...a thin medium long pen with fantastic balance.

It sure does, and the nib is so nice! It has real character. The reserve tank was a surprise, and the ink is such a pretty shade of green.

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A number of years ago...I was chasing Purple, and who the hell needed green....not me...never...ever.

(C singed his reports in green ink in MI-6....the nickle knowledge one can gain, and never ever forget.)

 

Well this near by shop had a sale was selling a used half bottle of Pelikan 4001 for €1.00.

I took it home and it shaded and was such a 'brilliant' green-green ink.

 

In the next year I bought 14 green-greenish inks.....things like R&K Alt goldgrun...is a greenish ink that every one needs.

I now have 19- or 20 greenish inks.

 

Doing a paper test that took some years because €40 for a 100 sheets was a bit over my budget.

Besides other colors of a scribbled phrase, I ended up doing an green ink test.

In the green-green inks.

R&K Verdura beat MB Irish by a nose and Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Green by a neck.

So if you like a lively brilliant green, R&K costs @ €8.50...MB became a rip off. I got it for €15....then it jumped in price from that to 19, and the very next year to €23.

 

The new Dull 4001 dark green pine forest ink***, is to saturated to shade, so it don't. Some sort of pine forest color....I gave my bottle to the guy upstairs  instead of poring it down the sink.

 

And I Never Got Back to collecting purples.

 

Could well be your nib is semi-flex...and stubbed. Should be, it is that era.

Your nib was made by Degussa, which made at least in the classic style a nib that was a tad springier than Pelikan's nib of that era.

Two posters I respect, claimed that so I put my 4-5 Gehas against 5 Pelikans of that era, and it was true.

 

 

***There were all those dark green Diamine inks ...but so many folks on this com complained they didn't like a lively brilliant green, so Pelikan finally listened.....and luckily there is R&K Verdura.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Finally! It took over two years of watching and waiting for one of these and many an impulsive other purchase while doing so, but it was the desire for this nib that began my interest in Japanese Pocket pens. And it got delayed in the post. And was overtaken by another from the same vendor sent a week later that arrived last week. Such stresses one can do without.

 

It's a Pilot Elite pocket pen with a Posting nib. (I'd have been happy with any older pocket pen with a Posting nib, it being an Elite is icing.) And, yes, I bid and paid more for it than any of my other pocket pens. I guess I'm done looking at them now...

 

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Will work for pens... :unsure:

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16 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

A number of years ago...I was chasing Purple, and who the hell needed green....not me...never...ever.

(C singed his reports in green ink in MI-6....the nickle knowledge one can gain, and never ever forget.)

 

Well this near by shop had a sale was selling a used half bottle of Pelikan 4001 for €1.00.

I took it home and it shaded and was such a 'brilliant' green-green ink.

 

In the next year I bought 14 green-greenish inks.....things like R&K Alt goldgrun...is a greenish ink that every one needs.

I now have 19- or 20 greenish inks.

 

Doing a paper test that took some years because €40 for a 100 sheets was a bit over my budget.

Besides other colors of a scribbled phrase, I ended up doing an green ink test.

In the green-green inks.

R&K Verdura beat MB Irish by a nose and Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Green by a neck.

So if you like a lively brilliant green, R&K costs @ €8.50...MB became a rip off. I got it for €15....then it jumped in price from that to 19, and the very next year to €23.

 

The new Dull 4001 dark green pine forest ink***, is to saturated to shade, so it don't. Some sort of pine forest color....I gave my bottle to the guy upstairs  instead of poring it down the sink.

 

And I Never Got Back to collecting purples.

 

Could well be your nib is semi-flex...and stubbed. Should be, it is that era.

Your nib was made by Degussa, which made at least in the classic style a nib that was a tad springier than Pelikan's nib of that era.

Two posters I respect, claimed that so I put my 4-5 Gehas against 5 Pelikans of that era, and it was true.

 

 

***There were all those dark green Diamine inks ...but so many folks on this com complained they didn't like a lively brilliant green, so Pelikan finally listened.....and luckily there is R&K Verdura.

Oh neat, I have one other Degussa nib, on my Salz Bros. penguin that Mr. Propas chose and tuned for me. It’s a tiny, lovely nib. I bought some 4001 Brilliantgrün after reading one of your posts. I really like it in my wet pens. 
 

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2 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Finally! It took over two years of watching and waiting for one of these and many an impulsive other purchase while doing so, but it was the desire for this nib that began my interest in Japanese Pocket pens. And it got delayed in the post. And was overtaken by another from the same vendor sent a week later that arrived last week. Such stresses one can do without.

 

It's a Pilot Elite pocket pen with a Posting nib. (I'd have been happy with any older pocket pen with a Posting nib, it being an Elite is icing.) And, yes, I bid and paid more for it than any of my other pocket pens. I guess I'm done looking at them now...

 

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I just got into pocket pens, the inlaid nibs is defo part of the allure. It all started with a turquoise Platinum. Your Elite is adorable!

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