Price of most expensive pen you've every given awa

[Glenn-SC]

I gave a friend of mine a Blue Demo M600.

Cost me a little less than $150.

[RonB]

Can I be your friend?

 

Ron

[acfrery]

The few fountain pen friends I have are too sophisticated for my gift budget, so most of the pens I give away are for my students.

 

I recently gave Hero pens to two students, and there was such a fountain pen fever at the University that I had to order a few Wality pens to prevent a riot. They arrived (from I Sell Pens; the usual disclaimer), and they are so nice I immediately orderer four more.

 

Alejandro

Edited March 16, 2006 by acfrery

[TMann]

I've only given away a few pens. They were mostly instances of people needing a pen, and I had an extra inexpensive one that I didnt' need. (<$30.) The one nice pen that I gave away was a vintage Waterman with a somewhat flexy nib. I was so frustrated with trying to learn to write in a Spencerian hand, that I decided that I'd just give the pen away. Actually, I think that I tried to sell it off first, but then decided to just give it away.

 

TMann

[Glenn-SC]

Can I be your friend?

Sorry,

I don't believe they make them anymore.

[Stylo]

I don't believe they make them anymore.

I am sure he wouldn't mind settling for a regular M600

[Monketah]

Years ago, I bought a Waterman Gentleman, but I couldn't get it to loosen up, so I gave it to a friend in law school. I bought another Gentleman, thinking that this time my luck would change, but I ended up giving that one away as well. Same thing happened with a Waterman Carene, which found a home with a friend who works as a freelance writer.

 

All of my friends have had better luck with the pens than I did, so giving them away was the right thing to do. I guess I could always try another Waterman?

[Richard]

For Christmas 2005, Barbara and I gave her father, a retired Army bird colonel, a Bexley Armed Forces FP in Army green.

[chris burton]

The first one that I gave away was a Montblanc 234 1/2. It was his (JT) first fountain pen and it hooked him. I think that it was the nib that did it.

[ipse dixit]

I gave my sister a Sheaffer Silver Imperial pen, with a medium nib, I bought in 1974 to take the bar exam with. She graduates from law school in May. Although I paid about $27 for it, now it is worth around $100.

 

I have another one with a broad nib together with the pb and mp. Original box for the fp and instruction pamphlet.

[J. John Harvey]

I hope you can still do pen on bar exams, because I hope to take one in quite a few years.

[Velma]

At this point, probably a $45 Sheaffer Prelude. I've given three or four of them away over the past two years, including one to someone I only knew vaguely over the internet. I've given a number of less expensive Sheaffers, like No Nonsense ones, and Hero pens to people as well. In fact, I'm beginning to think that I should keep a stock of those, after testing them to make sure that they write well, on hand, for people who are curious.

[JRodriguez]

A Waterman Phileas is the most expensive I've given - I think it cost me about $30. The next is a Wality piston filler I paid $10 for, and then a bunch of Parker vectors. A couple of my friends really got into fountain pens through the vectors.

[Dvenosa]

I gave a Sheaffer's Imperial for my english teacher, but I don't how much it costs...(it cost me 10 bucks for 2)

[TheNobleSavage]

I gave my wife my Visconti Van gogh after it came back from repair. I already had the Crystal and I liked it so much more than the Sandle Brown color. She digs the medium nib on it. I also bought her a Danitrio Brilliante with the optional 18kt gold broad nib. That is turning out to be one of her favorites. I actually bought 2 of them one in black for me and one in white for her, both with the 18kt gold broad nibs. Kevin did a wonderful job with it!!!

 

Aaron

[Phthalo]

101-150 for me. I sent fellow AU FPN'er Bigfella, my F Parker Sonnet, and soon to join my Sonnet will be a M Snorkel Statesman, once I have it fully restored. The nibs on these pens are too big for me.

 

Sonnet is about $95US, Snorkel will be about $50US. Bigfella did insist on sending me $20 and a surprise gift - a boxed bottle of Sheaffer 'King's Gold' (discontinued) ink. I was thrilled! (I wonder though if this behaviour could be viewed as us 'enabling' one other's 'addiction'...

 

I recently found out a colleague draws a lot, so he may soon be a candidate for a nice FP. I also recently began writing to a friend from high-school, she will definitely be a candidate. I'm still deciding what pens they may enjoy best.

Edited August 12, 2006 by Phthalo