vintage

// April 14th, 2009 // Diary

I spotted a vintage Pelikan 100 in the wild — the reference desk, really — on Monday. It was burgundy with a bright gold “beak” clip and its owner let me write with it. It was filled with Private Reserve Chocolat, an excellent choice for this smooth writer. I let the patron write with my Lamy 2000, which is the new hotness of my collection and the Pelikan’s opposite in form and character; while the Pelikan reminded me of an antique Bentley, my Lamy is more of an Audi TT.

It was a random treat in the middle of a dull day.

Now I am flipping through Fountain Pens Past and Present and it smells just like my high school yearbooks used to smell. That combined with the smell of freshly-baking bread is making me homesick for Chicago, but only the Chicago of my teenaged self, all Wax Trax and Café Voltaire and living for that first burst of Friday afternoon air, half-past three and everything is possible as long as someone borrows a car.

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  • David
    This entry makes me feel guilty that my favorite pen is a Pilot G-2 fine point with black gel ink...off the rack for a couple of dollars at Fry's.
  • Sal
    I lost the Mont Blanc his nibs gave me as a gift years ago (I'm sure it will turn up some day) and rely on a a handful of Sheaffer pens I bought back when they were $1.99 ea with a few cartridges thrown into the packet.

    A friend in England sent me a spare Parker from his collection because he felt so sorry for me.

    When I was at Staples today (on my walk back home from the Mechanics' Institute Library) I bought cartridges for the Sheaffer pens and a lovely leather-bound journal and a twosome of BIC® Wite-Out® Brand Correction Fluid (water-soluble) (needed for my "I can do it in ink" Sudoku and crossword errors) and a 4-pack (marked down $2!) of Bic 0.5mm Triumph 730R pens.

    We'll see if they write as swell as they look.

    S.
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