OT: Fountain Pens [Was: RE: [TheForge] Re: Starting up]

[debmiller at fuse.net]

Wow!

A guy could buy some nice tools for the cost of those pens....

I always loved my fountain pens as well, but have always been too cheap to indulge myself.

My only "real" fountain pens are an older Diplomat, with Made in West Germany, remember when there was a West Germany?????

And a Cross I received as a gift.............never liked the Cross......really cheezy.....


Ray

Cincinnati  

---- "Washington wrote: 
> Andy,
> You do have some nice pens!  I don't own anything that fancy.  The one I use every day is a 1982 Sheaffer Slim Targa.  But, I also have 20 or 25 others dating from c. 1900 through the 1940s in various stages of repair.  I've heard lots of nice things about Pelicans, but I've never owned one.  Over the past century, I think Sheaffer has made some of the nicest nibs of any major American or European company.
>  
> Aubrey
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> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Andrew Vida
> Sent: Fri 1/6/2006 2:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Starting up
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> Washington, Aubrey O. wrote:
> > Mike,
> > My favorite, locally owned, office supply store still carries a nice selection of fountain pens, bottles of ink, desk blotters, and pencils from 4B to 4H.  But, I get blank stares at Office Depot.
> > 
> 
>         It's amazing what fountain pens go for these days.  Michel Perchins and
> Montegrappas for $30K.  I still have my old Pelikan 110s that I paid $10
> for in 1980.  Some of the best writing pens ever made.
> 
>         About a dozen years ago I decided to get stupid and buy a Pelikan
> Toledo, the big one.  $700.  I see them selling used for over $2000
> these days.
> 
>         Me dear daughter got me a Namiki for xmas two years ago.  Great pen,
> but at $170 it's not cheap by any means.  Write beautifully, though the
> ink system isn't as good as Pelikan.  Then again, nobody makes ink
> delivery as good as they do.
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