artaddict Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 (edited) I keep looking at this jumbo pen on ebay. It's very fat. Fountain Pen Giant Pen Made in Japan Vintage Item number: 250153443127 Someone please bid on it before I do. I am strangely drawn to it though I could never write with it ... Edited August 17, 2007 by artaddict Watermans Flex Club & Sheaffer Lifetime Society Member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phthalo Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 The first time I saw one of these pens, it was photographed beside a Bic to show the size, and I burst out laughing at the photo. It just looked so goofy! I'm sure you could write with it... I have some paint markers built like these, and they are actually quite comfortable. Maybe a FP in this size would make a good sketching pen? (Or it could live in your handbag - I'm sure you could clock someone with it and do some damage. Laura / PhthaloFountain Pens: My Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Jumbo pens like this are quite common. If it has a single redeeming factor, it is the chasing as they almost always have smooth barrels and caps. The pen is an eyedropper and the pice on which the blind cap screws has come loose from the barrel. If the threads are still tight, this can be easily fixed with some shellac. While it is out, the buyer can also replace the seal. Many of these 1950s pens can with gold plated (washed might be a better terminolgy) nib that soon wore to expose the steel. If the nib is not broken or damaged, it might be writable. Unless someone just HAS to have a jumbo pen and it HAS to have one with chasing and it HAS to be used requiring repair, I would suggest waiting for another. You have time! On the other hand, if one wants to teach themselves how to repair Japanese eyedroppers, it could be a great project pen. stanFormerly Ryojusen PensThe oldest and largest buyer and seller of vintage Japanese pens in America.Member: Pen Collectors of America & Fuente, THE Japanese Pen Collectors Club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmkeuning Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Someone please bid on it before I do. Done Fool: One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artaddict Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 (edited) Well I see that Jim (James) has bid on it! Didn't you also buy the fur covered pen? Stan, thanks for your very informative answer. Pthalo, thanks for the tips, maybe I will get one someday... Pep Here is another one: Giant "JUMBO" Fountain Pen, Japan Item number: 150150398527 Edited August 17, 2007 by artaddict Watermans Flex Club & Sheaffer Lifetime Society Member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taki Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 James, I'm expecting a in-depth review if you win it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EventHorizon Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 (edited) So does the size serve a purpose or this more of a novelty? Edited August 17, 2007 by EventHorizon Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh. Frank Herbert, DuneUS science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) My Pens on Flikr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artaddict Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 (edited) I think the Jumbo size is just a novelty. Platinum made some Jumbo pens in recent times - the Glamour model, I think it was called. Congratulations, James, I see you won the auction! (and good luck to jd) Edited August 17, 2007 by artaddict Watermans Flex Club & Sheaffer Lifetime Society Member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonro Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 So does the size serve a purpose or this more of a novelty? I suppose it might be useful for someone with arthritis, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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