Hi there.
I'm a vintage collector and amateur repairer. Here's my collection:
This is, by no means, all my collection, but it is most of it. The majority of the pens shown here are vintage. Unless stated otherwise, they all work. Allow me to introduce you to the gang...
First tray:
Mabie Todd & Co. Swan, ca. 1946. Restored & working.
Two Conway Stewart M58s. Both nonfunctional (never got around to restoring them).
Another Conway Stewart, with a gold-filled cap. Worked perfectly until a month ago, when the ink-sac ruptured on me. It was beyond my skill to fix, so I sent it to the local pen-shop to have it overhauled.
Another, cheaper, Conway Stewart. Restored and working.
Ca. 1935 Canadian-made Junior-size Waterman. This was the first pen I ever repaired. It took some doing, too. Some idiot had slammed it into a desk and turned the nib into something resembling a DNA double-helix. It took a lot of pulling and bending and hammering to get the nib out flat and write smoothly again.
Next pen's a Waterman Phileas. Nothing much to say here.
The next three pens, and the one up the top, are all Wahl-Eversharps. The three gold pens are Wahl Art Decos from the 1920s. The big gold one (second one) is from 1922. The slimmer one is ca. 1927. The ringtop vest-pocket pen (which I wear with my pocket-watch)...I dunno how old that one is. But they all write perfectly!
The big black one with the gold cap is an Eversharp Skyline, ca. 1942. Delicious, wet, medium flexy nib.
The next pen is a Campo Marzio Minny; nothing much to say here. Bought it on a trip to Europe. Served me well for years until I wrote with it so much, the tipping started roughing up, so I had to get it smoothed a bit. Writes fine now.
The black pen on the very end is a ca. 1914 Conklin crescent-filler. I repaired this one as well (after a friend kindly gave me a pen & period-appropriate replacement-nib), and it works perfectly fine now.
The two pens up the top are a Cross Metropolis, ca. 2000, and a Montblanc Meisterstuck 145 'Chopin', ca. 2006.
From left to right:
Parker Duofold two-bander senior flattop Big Red *deep breath* from 1928.
The next three pens are all Parker '51's. The Flighter comes from ca. 1949.
The next three pens are also Parkers.
- Parker '45' ca. 1970.
- Parker '17'.
- Parker Lady Duofold, hooded nib pen. Made in England.
The next five pens are all Sheaffers.
- 1930 Sheaffer Balance OS in marine green.
- 2 ca. 1935 Sheaffer Balances in black (one restored, one not).
- 2 ca. 1980 Sheaffer school pens (souveniers from my childhood).
I also have a whole heap of other stuff. Dip pens, inkwells, pen-rests, a rocker-blotter, spare nibs, blotting-paper...all kinds of scribbly-wriggly-writery stuff, which isn't in these photos.