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On 4/29/2022 at 10:29 AM, Shrevvy said:

I have three Sailor pens. Two are new and the third is the 1972 one above. I have not been pleased with the two new Sailors. I may eventually move those along. The Sailor pocket pen was more of an afterthought when I was buying a couple other Japanese pens (Pilots). I was very surprised and prefer it over the two modern Sailors. All three are 21k nibs. 

I do like celluloid. I have a couple other Montegrappa celluloid pens including two flex nibs (one will be sold). 

I keep several inked. At my office, I am using a Montegrappa Fortuna (black ink) and a Pilot Deluxe (blue). At home, I have the Parker Premier (bronze/orange) and two Parker 88s (blue and red).

I got three pens yesterday in the mail from Japan (all Pilots) and have two more coming next week (Parker 75 and a leather wrapped Platinum). No, I don't have a problem...It's such a cheap hobby.

Great hobby.  I typically carry  2-3 pens with me at all time.  Currently have inked a Pelican 800 broad oblique, a Visconti rollerball and a Montblanc Faulkner BP.

On 4/28/2022 at 9:58 AM, Robot Man said:

Those are beautiful! Most people here have no idea what they are looking at.

My wife is a rather high end antique dealer. She has handled some VERY expensive Tiffany, Handel & other quality lamps over the years.

I am inherently a collector and keeper but she is strictly a dealer and everything is for sale for the right price.

We have had a lot of nice Stickley Craftsman furniture and beautiful art pottery around the house as well, 

I have a nice Lilly Lamp that still needs unpacking🥰

On 4/29/2022 at 5:29 AM, Shrevvy said:

Did not intent to collect fountain pens, but I guess I do. I just like writing with them and have accumulated several. Here are three. Top is a 1990s Montegrappa Symphony, middle is a 1980s Parker Premier and the bottom is a Sailor pocket pen from 1972. The Sailor was thrown into a deal for some other pens. It is a surprisingly good writer and I am glad I got it. Strange to think pens were important enough that companies were competing for consumer dollars at a pretty high level. The pocket pens were to meet a need for writing on the go - small, light writers. They were also part of the gold wars between the big three Japanese manufacturers. Nibs went from 14k to 18k to 21k and eventually 23k gold. This pocket pen is a 21k fine nib.

The Montegrappa celluloid FP’s are some of my favorite pens.

Never had a Sailor, but hear great things concerning the nibs.

First started collecting vintage posters from the turn of the century with a focus on Art Nouveau with subsequent branch off into a few Tiffany Lamps when I took a break from comics from around 2008 to about 2012.  

More Fun 73 6.5 for 102,000 thursday

2.0 today for 72,000 

listed as sold 

On 2/13/2022 at 6:50 PM, entalmighty1 said:

 

 

 

 

That's the nicest and most well centered copy I've seen! Congratulations

On 2/7/2022 at 2:24 AM, Flex Mentallo said:

I'm absolutely certain we've never done this before. No rules, so even if its hard to make up your minds, its almost impossible to cheat. Here are mine.

Wow! The colors are incredible

On 1/15/2022 at 5:04 PM, szav said:

Is it just me or did all the big boys/new money go home today? or did some people become convinced there was no need to watch on Saturday?  I wouldn't say things were going cheap, and there was no shortage of strong prices, but there were also a lot of non-insane prices.  This one sure sticks out a few weeks after an 8.5 went for 38k...

The underbidder on the 8.5 was lucky.

Used to buy early on in the 1980-1990's for speculation (like everyone else back then), but since coming back into comics, only buy multiples of comics I plan to keep. 

On 1/7/2022 at 9:31 AM, october said:

This is very true, but you are misinterpreting my regrets. A lot of those book I sold and wish I hadn't...I want them back because my tastes have changed. I sold so many beautiful high grade OO SA DC/Marvel collections because, at the time, I was only interested in Gold. Now that I have come back around to collecting Silver, I wish I had kept more. Sure, there is the odd issue that has skyrocketed in value that I wish I had kept just to sell now, but mostly I'm annoyed because I am currently collecting things I have owned multiple times already. 

1+

On 1/4/2022 at 7:47 PM, KCOComics said:

In 2017, $5k could have bought you a pretty nice X1. 

I'm sure I said this to you before, but you are focused on the right things. I wish I was buying bigger books when I was 18 rather than trying to complete my Punisher War Journal run!! 

In 2017, $5,000 could get you a X-men 1 in 5.0 to 6.0  or AF 15 in 1.0 to 1.5 condition.

Good luck with your sales.