Slimming down

Update: I started selling - see my sales pages:

In order to sell most of my pens, I first had to made up my mind what I want to keep. May I present here my target collection, the ones to keep.

It is a page in progress, there are still many holes in the data.

Waldmann Pens

Counting from the left, pen 1-4, 7-10 are the same model: the model Precieux (Deep Wide) Lines in Sterling silver. Pen 8-10 are the original model (fountain pen, mechanical pencil and ball-pen).

Pen 1-4 are the yellow-gold vermeil version of it (mechanical pencil, rollerball, ball-pen and fountain pen) and pen 7 is the rose-gold vermeil version of the fountain pen. The rose-gold fountain pen has a rose-gold-plated 18k nib.

Pen 6 is the same model in steel, coated in black (Waldmann P2000). But it is not a typical steel, it is  a recycled steel from gun barrels recycled by the German police.

It is a limited edition, meanwhile sold out. Read more about it here.

Unfortunately, the silver model is meanwhile also out-of-production and even sold out at the maker's site. Fortunately, I got the last two fountain pens, one for changing into the rose-gold vermeil version and another one to keep in the original state. I also got the last rollerball. Lucky me.

Waldmann Pen produced for me the yellow-gold and the rose-gold vermeil pens. The coating consists of 5 micrometers of 24k gold. As the model is not produced anymore, these vermeil versions are unique pens. Other pens in Sterling silver can be changed to vermeil versions upon request to Waldmann.

Pen 5 in the photo above the 100th Waldmann anniversary commemoration pen, a limited edition of 100. I wrote about twice - link 1 and link 2.

It is a Sterling silver pen with an 18k M nib, a piston filler.

Pen 11 is the piston filler "Manager", also this one is a Sterling silver pen with an 18k nib.

Finally, pen 12 is the famous "Xetra Vienna" which exists as a black and a white version. The making is shown in the video about Waldmann Pens.

 

 

Waldmann Precieux Lines from the 2020 catalogue:

  

 

Manager from the 2021 catalogue: 

Xetra Vienna black from the 2021 catalogue:

 

Pen 1-3 are Waldmann Solon pens.

I like especially the cap of this pen. It reminds me of Greek columns, simple and elegant. While I show below an adapted page of the catalogue which only gives information about the pens I have, you can get fountain pen, ball-pen, mechanical pencil an rollerball in each of these colors.

Pen 4 is a Tango Barley ballpen. It is the pen which I constantly have in my backpack.

 

Solon pens from the 2021 catalogue:

 

 

 

Scriptorium Pens

Pen 1: about the size of a Sailor ebonite KoP, base pen is made from Nikko ebonite with a Bock #380 M which was grinded to a CSI by Marc Bacas. The pen itself was overworked by a talented friend and received a midori tamenuri coating. More pictures here: LINK.

Pen 2: The model is an Idyll oversized, the acrylic resin was made for this pen by Carolina Pen Company and should show the Japanese autumn colors of the maple leaf. The pen is made for Jowo #6.

Pen 3: It is a custom-size model very similar to the size of a Sailor ProGear KoP. The acrylic resin is from "Swampwood Products" and is called "Tie Dye". It has a Bock #380 in Titanium Fine.

Pen 4: I bought this one used. The pen model is an EPIC in Illuminated Amber Tortoise (acrylic), it has a Jowo #8 nib which was modified to a Pendleton's Butterline Stub.

Pen 5: This is a custom size pen. It is made from Camatillo (Mexican Kingwood) on Ebonite. The section is also made from NYH Cumberland ebonite. The nib is a Bock #250 in Platinum (Pt950) modified from EF to XXF by fpnibs.com.

Pen 6: This is a custom size pen. It is made from highest grade Amboyna Burl (Heirloom Grade) on Ebonite. The section is also made from NYH Cumberland ebonite. It is made for Jowo #6. At the moment it has a Jowo semiflex EF/F in 18k.

Pen 7: This is a custom size pen. It is made from Snakewood on Ebonite. The section is also made from NYH Cumberland ebonite. It is made for Jowo #6. At the moment it has Jowo 18k EF modified into a CI by Marc Bacas.

 

Manupropria Pens

Pen 1: Shibui Standard in Chado Nuri.

Pen 2: Shibui Standard in Shu Urushi.

Pen 3: Miyabi Bo medium in Raden Nashiji; imagine there is an even bigger version available .

Hongdian Pens

Pen 1: #1845 "silver"

Pen 2: #1845 "black"

Pen 3: #A3 in black

Pen 4: #A3 in Aluminum alloy

Pen 5: #A1 in Aluminum alloy with 14k gold nib

Pen 6: #517s where s stands for screw cap

Pen 7: #1850 Black forest

Pen 1: #660 in dark ebony

Pen 2: #660 in red ebony

Pen 3: #N1s, piston filler, mandarin color

Pen 4-6: #960 similar size to a Pelikan 600

Pen 7-8: #1850, Hongdian Voyager, blue= ocean and green= islands