Aren't these beautiful!

[Clintmax]

Esterbrooks are the OTHER thing I collect! In addition to rotary phones.

on edit: spelling. typos sucks. :rofl:

[Heidi]

1. I think I just fainted.

_Lovely_. :loveya:

Feast your eyes on this: the Bexley Sheherazade. I don't own it (yet).

[Clintmax]

2. THAT one is gorgeous too!

Looks expensive!

[Heidi]

3. I think it's around

$200 U.S., but Christmas is coming . . . :)

[Clintmax]

4. Yeah, that's expensive...

but not the MOST expensive I've seen...$3,500 is about the most I've seen a fountain pen priced. I had to *GASP* at THAT one!

[nookiemonster]

5. Damn. I hate bastards that can afford

$3500.00 writing utensils.

:mad:

[Heidi]

10. I don't hate 'em . . .

but I think that when you're getting into that price range, it's an obsession rather than a simple hobby. :shrug:

[nookiemonster]

12. Agreed.

Less emphasis on the "hate"

:)

[Heidi]

7. Yikes!

I saw a glass dip-pen in that price range once, but I'd _never_ spend that kind of money on a pen. $200 is about our limit on stuff like that; I think I'd feel guilty for spending more when I can only use one at a time. :blush:

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. My preference, at least aesthetically, is for the Parker Duofold...

[Heidi]

8. Gorgeous!

Have you ever written with one? We have mostly Mont Blanc and Pelikan fountain pens, but I no longer think Mont Blancs are worth the money: they drag across the paper.

:hi:

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. I have written with one. Very smooth.

Don't own one (I've yet to justify the $300+, but it's something I intend to splurge on when I can afford an indulgence), but I have tested one. The nib just glides across the paper.

[Clintmax]

9. Yeah, the DuoFolds are great!

I collect those too...as well as the Sheaffer snorkels...

[ET Awful]

13. I'm not a collector, I don't even own a single pen, but . . .

I've always appreciated some of the finer ones. An attorney I once worked with had one of these:





I loved that one :) It's a Mont Blanc Oscar Wilde limited edition. Very, very nice pen :) The pen is actually much more of a green color than you can see here.

When they first came out, the pen/pencil set was around $900 or so. Now you'd pay around $1,600 if you can find one anywhere.

[tjwmason]

14. I've got a Waterman in my pocket at the moment

Thusly - but in green rather than red, nothing terribly special.



I have cultivated a personal 'allergy' to biros and never use the wretched things - except for doing the crossword.

[JimmyJazz]

23. I write with that same pen - only mine is blue.

:)

[tjwmason]

29. My - what impeccable taste you have my dear.

[Clintmax]

15. Greekspeak and I prefer the classic pens..

They used real bladders and levers to fill the pens instead of the crazy cartridges. We restore fountain pens too...it's a lot of fun!

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. I love my Aurora Talentum and my Platinum Musician Pen

(though I wish I had gotten the silver and not the gold Talentum...)

Musician Pen:

[Heidi]

18. *swoon*

Beautiful, Rabrrrrrr. Is the Aurora Talentum light or weighty in the hand? Weight is one of the things I like about my MB Meisterstuck, but it drags when it writes.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. It's a bit weighty, which I like. I don't like the real lightweight ones,

they don't feel like I have anything in my hand.

But it's not so heavy that I can't write with it for hours.

And the musician pen is a bit lighter than the Talentum (it's smaller, of course), but still has enough heft to it to make it work well.

Both pens glide over the paper most beautifully, even over the somewhat rough surfaces of the Amalfi and Fabriano paper I use for correspendance.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. I assume you know about Fountain Pen Hospital - one of the best stores

ever. Nice people working there.

http://www.fountainpenhospital.com/

GO to their store sometime if you have the time.

[Clintmax]

20. Yeah, I get their catalogues too...

Never have been there, but it looks like a beautiful store!

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. I don't know that I'd call it beautiful - it's more utilitarian,

though not an ugly utilitarian, and not all that big. The best of FPH is the people: VERY knowledgable, very helpful, and they can help with anything.

And a HUGE selection of inks! YUM!

[displacedtexan]

22. Here's what I gave my daughter on her 21st birthday...

A Mont Blanc Boheme fountain pen (with an emerald-- her birthstone).

She loves it!

[Heidi]

25. Very nice.

Mr. Heidi and I generally give fountain pens as graduation gifts to friends' kids. You made a _very_ good choice, displacedtexan! :thumbsup:

[displacedtexan]

26. Thanks!

I usually give friends' kids Cross Pen & Pencil sets. Hardly anyone I know does this anymore, though.

I find that sad.

[Heidi]

27. One of my first "teenager" gifts from my dad

was a Cross pen and pencil set, and he later gave me a Cross SelecTip, which I used for years.

I find it sad, too, that folks don't give nice pens as gifts, and sad, too, that a lot of kids wouldn't appreciate it. In Switzerland, students have to use fountain pens in school through elementary and junior high; I wish that'd been the rule when I was in school in the US. (We give fountain pens, rather than rollerball or balltip pens, because they're easy for us to get here; also, there's a certain pleasure to writing with a fountain pen.)

:hi:

[displacedtexan]

28. When I was in school, we had to fill our own pens...

... from our own ink wells until Jr. High school (12 yrs old). Then, we could use ball point pens. If the ball point pen skipped, we had to rewrite the whole page., or the teacher wouldn't accept it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Here's mine:

Because I can't be trusted with fountain pens...and always lose things. :hi: Plus I get 10 of em for a buck! :bounce: