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What is the brand of that case? How many pens does it hold, etc?

 

I believe it is a Piquadro 2-pen case. They are truly wonderful.

 

QM2 is right on. Beautiful soft pliable Italian leather and well constructed to boot.

 

Mark

 

I won!

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How can one fail to appreciate and love vintage MB celluloids like these?:

 

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk48/evansm92/Fountain%20Pens/MB25Coral2.jpg

 

I make an exception for pre-1940s celluloids : )

I do love and appreciate that coral! Can I have it?.. Borrow it?

 

QM2,

 

I agree and nice try ;). I almost suffered a moment of weakness and said sure.

 

Mark

 

"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try" Mark Twain (American Humourist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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What is the brand of that case? How many pens does it hold, etc?

 

I believe it is a Piquadro 2-pen case. They are truly wonderful.

 

QM2 is right on. Beautiful soft pliable Italian leather and well constructed to boot.

 

Mark

 

I won!

 

Do we have any Pepsi left to give as a prize? There has been a run on them recently.

 

Mark

 

"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try" Mark Twain (American Humourist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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QM2 is right on. Beautiful soft pliable Italian leather and well constructed to boot.

 

Where can I get one?

 

Pepsi for QM2! (edited: Aw, man...you beat me to it Mark!!)

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Thank a Veteran.

 

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QM2 is right on. Beautiful soft pliable Italian leather and well constructed to boot.

 

Where can I get one?

 

Pepsi for QM2!

 

Eric,

 

I believe that they are discontinued stock. I purchased mine from Swisher. Not sure if they have any left.

 

Mark

 

"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try" Mark Twain (American Humourist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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QM2 Antique

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Wait, what? I thought the Coral was the prize.

Dang it!

 

The only place online I know of that carries this Piquadro right now is Swisher's:

http://www.swisherpens.com/catalog/accesso...eather-case.htm

 

My local shop, the Bromfield Pen Shop, carries them as well. I have a black one, called the Piquadro Nikolai, that I absolutely love.

 

 

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Exactly right. I believe many confuse simple for easy, when in reality simple is far more complex and require much more restraint to achieve. The Dumas is a nice pen, but its much more flamboyant with plenty of design in every millimeter. The Hemingway pulls it off much more elegantly, and uses a standard 149 nib as well...it does need a fleur de lis engraved on the nib to be special. I understand the fleur de lis significance on the Dumas pen, but I can't help but feel its so very much superficial in its symbolism.

Oh the Dumas nib's not that bad. :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/jelb/IMG_6688.jpg

 

Cheers,

Jeen

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There are those ink spots again. Hey, is that a dent in your 149 nib...on the right shoulder?

 

 

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No dent. Just one of those weird photo artifacts.

As for the spots, MB black on the Dumas and MB BB on the 149. Hope you like'em. :P

 

Cheers,

Jeen

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I've always thought that the Dumas was the more handsome brother to the Hemingway...

(Uhoh, I see torches being lit!)

I'll take an Aurora, please. Aurora black.

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I've always thought that the Dumas was the more handsome brother to the Hemingway...

(Uhoh, I see torches being lit!)

NOt by me...The Dumas has always been my favorite.

Hard times don't last, but hard people do.

 

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Wael El-Dasher Vintage

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They're both great pens...and Jeen, the Dumas is nib is great looking, no debate. My comment was not intended to be read as the Dumas nib is not attractive because it is good looking. I only meant that the Hemingway shows more restraint, and I am still not so sure about the fleur de lis, meaning, I am not sure I can pull off using it...it feels so....French! Perhaps that's what bothers me about it.

 

I am not French as you may have noticed, and I am not so sure I would like the Proust pen had it had a national symbol on it's nib...or elsewhere for that matter. I prefer to have a pen that has no national or patriotic features, I don't want my pens to make any such statement.

 

Not sure I explained myself well here.

 

cheers

 

Wael

“Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis”

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They're both great pens...and Jeen, the Dumas is nib is great looking, no debate. My comment was not intended to be read as the Dumas nib is not attractive because it is good looking. I only meant that the Hemingway shows more restraint, and I am still not so sure about the fleur de lis, meaning, I am not sure I can pull off using it...it feels so....French! Perhaps that's what bothers me about it.

 

I am not French as you may have noticed, and I am not so sure I would like the Proust pen had it had a national symbol on it's nib...or elsewhere for that matter. I prefer to have a pen that has no national or patriotic features, I don't want my pens to make any such statement.

 

Not sure I explained myself well here.

 

cheers

 

Wael

 

No offense taken Wael. It's all in good fun and interest. I love both pens equally in different ways.

I chose the Dumas in part because I love the ornate look, it's 149 size, and because it is a reminder of French friends long separated from me.

 

Fred,

You're right about the tangents this thread has created, no doubt because the Hemi is a highly desriable modern pen based on a highly desriable vintage model.

 

 

Best,

Jeen

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I can't help but think Hemingway is somewhere in the great beyond seeing this (reading this?) and laughing wildly. No doubt there would be his favorite drink near at hand. I have a Hemingway. love it dearly, and can't imagine ever selling it. I'm sure Hemingway would brush asided all the technical stuff (maybe use it for detail in a later novel) and ask us to "just write with the damn thing. The pen is more than okay and ultimately it is the words on the page that count." I believe he would have much rather compared the relative merits of a Boss or Purdy SxS or maybe a Baretta shotgun. Funny thing, these highgrade shotguns were frightenly expensive even in his day and many collected them solely as an investment. Hemingway saw them as beautiful, wonderful tools to be used as intended. Maybe the same goes for MB's Hemingway pen.

 

AMP

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Could we see some Hemi photos? The pitted surfaces of resin and trim sound intriguing.

 

Cheers,

Jeen

Jeen, I plan on taking more photos for this thread, maybe this weekend. These are "old" (taken within the last year).

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3072172580_1d14700e12.jpg

 

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/2597701465_5073deb57d_o.jpg

 

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2598535630_6dc87426b6_o.jpg

Ehternautrix,

Belated thank you for these enticing photos! Would love to see more of your pen and others.

What is this pitted surface that RedRob described? :hmm1:

 

Best,

Jeen

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A hint of the pitting may be seen on the close-up of the section in Ethernautrix's 3rd picture....

She sneezed just before the shutter opened.

 

Fred

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A hint of the pitting may be seen on the close-up of the section in Ethernautrix's 3rd picture....

She sneezed just before the shutter opened.

 

Fred

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Wael El-Dasher Vintage

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Mark,

 

What's the model number of this pen? At first I thought it was a 216, but it's not. Its stunning.

 

cheers

 

Wael

 

How can one fail to appreciate and love vintage MB celluloids like these?:

 

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk48/evansm92/Fountain%20Pens/MB25Coral2.jpg

 

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk48/evansm92/Fountain%20Pens/MB25Coral3.jpg

 

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