Saturday 7 September 2013

The Desk (xi) : nice pens (last desk shots)

The final Desk post (pen cases and cabinets to come!)

Not much to say here, just caption the pics:

The Pen box. From left - A Dunhill (I believe these were made by MB); A Mont Blanc Boheme retractable; MontBlanc Hemingway (my first 'signifcant' pen); a MontBlanc 149; A MontBlanc Writers Edition (Kafka); a Simpole Conway Stewart (great IM nib, lovely pen - Thanks Chris); 4 Waterman Edison (1 stub, 1 fine, the other two are a pencil and ballpoint).

Here it is with the top up (and an Ollo lens on my iPhone):

and here is the second drawer:
From Left: 3 Noodler Ahabs and a Noodlers flex. This is followed by a Franklin Cristof 27 (lovely pen); a Parker modern Duofold; a Bexley Mandarin; and 4 Edisons: an Extended Mira (bulb filler), an LE Piston called the Brockton, a Collier bulb filler (great colour); and an Ebonite Pearl.







Thursday 5 September 2013

The Desk (part x) ...are you seriously still reading?

Yes, this is the tenth!!!! blog of the desk. But now I'm moving back to a few pens to make it interesting:
So here, above the computer on a former fireplace ledge you can see the side of a box for a Montegrappa Cigar which looks like this:



Behind that box is the box for an Omas Gallileo Galliilei LE
which looks like this:


Next to these boxes is a Rhodia orange pad behind an Art Deco Charles Rennie Mackintosh Pewter flask, next to the box of a Delta Isaac Newton LE which looks like this:



















Underneath the Isaac Newton is the box (and pen) of a Visconti Mazzi Dragon (LE) which looks like this:


This is next to a Moleskine with a Pen Quiver on the spine.

Moving to the left we see this:

A photo of my Blossom, three bottles of ink: Noodlers St Patty's Eire (a very bright green for which I have no use at all - more like a highlighter colour), Diamine Blue Sapphire (my go-to blue) and Pilot Black. 

And finally, for this page, under the inks is an Aurora red-tipped Demonstrator that I don't have a pic of (and I'm writing this too late at night to post one unless you pester me) but this is a clear pen with a celluloid piece at either extremity - very nice.

So here ends Desk blog #10 and there is still one more to come!

Until next tine....






Monday 2 September 2013

The Desk (part ix)

I'm moving today to the more mundane part of the desk before moving to more interesting bits.
We start with my CPU - an Apple (quite old now - 2007), but a fabulous machine.

In front of the desk top, you can see a bottle of Tsuyu-kusa Iroshizuku ink (quite like this one). Under the CPU you can see the spine of a Rickshaw Bags Moleskine cover (Moleskine inside) then a pen rest (Nakaya) on top of which are an Omas Green Arco with a fabulous Mottishaw italic nib; and a Pelikan Go. There is a close up of these here:

Here you can also see a Kaweco Al Sport in aluminium sitting on a vintage glass ink well, as well as a couple more of my "Go-to" inks : Private Reserve Tanzanite (a great purple and known about the traps as a pen laxative!) and MB Racing Green.


Here is the shelf just above my pen drawers: This includes a box with an Eversharp Skyline set (pen and pencil), some of my stationery a bucket lid of ballpoints, felt tips and pencils (see below) and a Visconti pen display (that I don't use - who said I'm a horder!)

That's it until next tine!