I got this pen today

[USG]

@carola Good Work... I saw that Monaco plate too but I wasn't sure...  It's a long drive from Monaco to Zürich to go shopping...🤪

[lamarax]

7 hours ago, carola said:

@USG Did some more googling and finally found it: It´s Monaco (MC), which is indeed not a member of the EU.

 

But of course! I should have guessed so myself, simply deducing from a sociological stand point 😛 

 

As for the place, yes, some Swiss city crossed my mind first, but I've noticed that the plate of the car in the background can't be Swiss at all. So what could be the closest? Austria! 🙂

[lamarax]

20 minutes ago, USG said:

@carola Good Work... I saw that Monaco plate too but I wasn't sure...  It's a long drive from Monaco to Zürich to go shopping...🤪

 

For someone from the US, I would have thought those distances are considered jogging distances (~600 km/370 mi) 😛

[USG]

2 hours ago, lamarax said:

 

For someone from the US, I would have thought those distances are considered jogging distances (~600 km/370 mi) 😛

Haha, Google maps says it's a 6 1/2 hr drive, that's nothing to sneeze at... 🤪

[carola]

15 hours ago, lamarax said:

 

But of course! I should have guessed so myself, simply deducing from a sociological stand point 😛 

 

That was pretty much my sentiment when I finally found it. 😆

[lamarax]

10 hours ago, carola said:

 

That was pretty much my sentiment when I finally found it. 😆

 

After checking Google maps, those blocks around appear to host the banking/financial hub in Zürich, so it's quite telling...

 

🍫, 🧀, 🐄, ⛷️,⌚ ... 💰💰💰

[Stompie]

I was in a bric a brac store and saw this for £5 - no dings or dents just normal wear and tear so I got it!

 

 

[RedPie]

5 minutes ago, Stompie said:

I was in a bric a brac store and saw this for £5 - no dings or dents just normal wear and tear so I got it!

 

 

That is a good find. Enjoy it!

[RedPie]

On 5/17/2025 at 6:59 AM, USG said:

@RedPie for the win]

Yay!!! Thank you!

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 5/15/2025 at 1:37 AM, InkyProf said:

a diminutive 3-42 G from 1951-53 with a very nice M nib

When there is only a mutter of how grand the MB 2X..3X is being constantly drowned out by the roar of 146/9's (have 2&1).....it took me 15 years to wise up to how grand the 2x/2xx/ 3X fountain pens were and are.

 

All of my MB's 2x/2xx/ 32 of that era that work are semi-flex, I hope yours is too. 

I've a 320 nail, that I'm not going to repair as it is a nail.

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342..... I was thinking and ranting on my standard sized, not diminutive thicker girthed 234 1/2 Deluxe. Meisterstuck clip and single fatter, more ornate band than the regular non-deluxe 234 1/2.

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The MB 14, 264 and 32 were gotten with in the last few months in live auctions. The 22 Lamy 2000 Clone needs piston repair. I don't chase MB, but for that price I snapped them up, like a snapping turtle, at live auctions.

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I do have a really nice lively semi-flex medium long (thin) 32.

I just did a balance test with my second best balanced pen a Geha 725, verses, a medium-long normal thickness MB 14 (nothing else), standard sized 264 and that thin medium-long 32. 

 

The 32 was such a nice pen, I thought it could match my 725. 

 

The medium-long elegant semi-flex Geha 725 remained in second place to my thicker girthed standard sized MB 234 1/2 Deluxe ('52-54 only)semi-flex KOB.

 

The MB 14, was a bit better, thicker than the 32 and a hair higher in class than the 264, but ... isn't in use. The MB 264...a standard pen, is what has been filled up four times in a row with R&K Alt Goldgreen, an ink that shades and with the wetter semi-flex nib giving me fine line variation.

Having a hundred pens and inks, I seldom ever reload. To reload 4 times is a great, balance, and nib, and ink combo.

Not all semi-flex nibs do that, as well as the MB 264. 

(I've @35 semi-flex and it might be my best semi-flex. I also have 15 or so maxi-semi-flex pens.)  The étui is also MB. 

The 32 is going to be used more. It is out and inked, as is the 14, (in one of the two inked cups), but neither are on the firing line. 

Below the MB 264.

 

I do have a great balanced medium-large (1948-59) 146 with a maxi-semi-flex nib.

1970 MB came out with the Large 146 and no longer in semi-flex but regular flex like a Palikan 200.

I'm going to have to dig the old 146 out to see if it beats the 264, or the old 234 1/2 deluxe.

Behind the rusty bars, three full dirty pen cups are having a riot, as I think of dirtying two clean pens.

 

 

[finzi]

Hear me out. Yes, I had recently resolved not to buy any more pens, for all the usual reasons, but this Cross Sauvage in Giraffe with gold M nib appeared on eBay and it was at a very low price, hasn’t been made for years and completes the set for me. 
 

Showed alone, and with its two siblings. 
 

For the record, I have resisted several urges to go pen shopping this week, urges driven solely by a mindless desire to acquire more and more, but this purchase was very considered and was made for a particular reason. My conscience is clear.
 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting.  I was not familiar with that Cross model.  

I have mixed opinions about the Cross pens I have.  The Townsend is okay.  The two Solos?  They're awesome -- I'd love to get a couple more colors, and maybe get a couple of other nib widths in the process.  

The Verve, OTOH?  Well, let's just say I'm glad I only paid a buck US for it at a place that sells donated art supplies (I think the store is a sub-company of Construction Junction).  One of these days I MAY pull that one back out, and see if I can hold it high enough on the section while writing to NOT get ink all over my fingers from the two piece nib surrounding the feed....   (Kinda frightening what the asking prices on eBay for those are.... )

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[MarcoA63]

The 1931-ish Pelikan 100 has arrived. As the seller stated the cork needs replacing and I started the process. I will use o-rings to make it quick, I hope. It is a wonderful looking pen. Signs of age and use.

[Pen Ffynnon]

On 5/21/2025 at 6:45 AM, finzi said:

Hear me out. Yes, I had recently resolved not to buy any more pens, for all the usual reasons, but this Cross Sauvage in Giraffe with gold M nib appeared on eBay and it was at a very low price, hasn’t been made for years and completes the set for me. 
 

Showed alone, and with its two siblings. 
 

For the record, I have resisted several urges to go pen shopping this week, urges driven solely by a mindless desire to acquire more and more, but this purchase was very considered and was made for a particular reason. My conscience is clear.
 

 

By the powers invested in me by absolutely nobody at all, I absolve you for purchasing during a pen diet. It's a pen *diet*, after all, not a pen *starvation". Also? Very, very cool collection!

[Pen Ffynnon]

This is going back a few days, most recently the Kaweco Sport that arrived yesterday. From top to bottom: Kaweco AL Sport in red, Pilot Pluminix in lime green (blaming @Misfit ), Retro 51 Coffeehouse (blaming @boilermaker1975 ), Benu Pixie in Coffee Brown and below it, another in Plum Cream (both of which I'm blaming SBRE Brown for).

 

You're all a terrible, horrible bunch of enablers, each and every one of you! I really need to thank you all for that!

Edited May 22, 2025 by Pen Ffynnon
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[inkstainedruth]

I've got a Plumix, thanks to signing up for a talk on the History of Vanishing Points at a pen show last year (people who signed up ahead of time had a choice between a box of Pilot cartridges or a Plumix, thanks to the Pilot USA table at the show, and I chose the Plumix, after a conversation I'd had with a friend who does calligraphy a couple of years before and who apparently would recommend that model to budding calligraphers as a good starter pen.  Don't use it a lot (it's got an Italic M nib), but it's a nice pen for the price (kind of sad that Pilot discontinued them).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

@Pen Ffynnon where did you get the lime Pluminix? Me want! I’ll have to trust it is the lime Pluminix I saw on US Amazon that ship free from Amazon Germany. I put in an order. Little pens need a buddy. 

[boilermaker1975]

@Pen Ffynnon I hope you are happy with coffee house. As with most pens, they look much better once you get them in your hands than they did in photos.

[Pen Ffynnon]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Pen Ffynnon where did you get the lime Pluminix? Me want! I’ll have to trust it is the lime Pluminix I saw on US Amazon that ship free from Amazon Germany. I put in an order. Little pens need a buddy. 

Yup, Amazon's where I got it. I was a little worried whether or not it was going to be a Pluminix since you warned me that in a lot of cases, they aren't. But to my inexperienced eyes, it seems to be and it writes really well.

 

Thank you for the recommendation!

[Pen Ffynnon]

2 minutes ago, boilermaker1975 said:

@Pen Ffynnon I hope you are happy with coffee house. As with most pens, they look much better once you get them in your hands than they did in photos.

I love it! It has the 1.1 stub nib and it's everything I want in a stub--smooth, juicy, and perfect for Van Dieman's Blue-Ringed Octopus.

 

Thank you so much for posting yours!