obsession....

ok... so, if the last one wasn't your thing, how about this?

MONDIAL BCHR WITH BOHEMIAN GLASS NIB

This unusual pen is from Austria. The maker is Mondial, which was an Italian company. These
pens do not often pop up in the US, but in Europe they are not uncommon. The pen is fitted
with an original Bohemian glass nib of very high quality.





Spec Information:

• Mondial midsized fountain pen produced late 1920s- early 1930s
• Black Chased Hard Rubber, ripple pattern
• colour is perfectly black (10/10); very clean pen
• chasing is fairly worn, but evenly so
• lever fill
• fitted with a slip-on clip
• clip and lever are nickel-plated (silver-colour)
• no brassing on metal parts; very clean
• Bohemian glass nib, original, c 1920s-30s, actually made in Bohemia, amber colour
• nib is a F/M point
• pen is fully restored and glass nib is smoothed

photos by QM2

Lust....

it's in my heart. and it has been since i first saw her. and not a day has gone by over the past year that i haven't thought of her. and today, i plan on taking her for a test drive, and if she makes me happy, i'll be putting down cold hard cash. if she doesn't make me happy, i'll spurn her forever - i have my eye on another....






so, i guess the real questions are.....

• does one need a $550+ pen? no, but one wants his precious.....
• $550? Seriously? yup... handmade with loving care. And that's not actually expensive.... a friend of mine bought a Visconti Art Nouveau at $900. The store carries pens up to $3,500 (actually I think they have a couple of $5k-6k pens). I've seen collector pens going at $12,000 USD.
  
• does a pen like this actually write better? actually, yes.... it's supposed to be an amazing nib. Part of the price of more expensive pens is materials and gold nibs.
  
• are you fucking crazy? ummmmm........ what was the question again?
  

it's on sale for quite a bit less or i wouldn't even consider it. the only problem is.... it's only available in yellow. although the colour sort of appeals to me.


And in case you're wondering about the slightly odd looking pen clip.... each side rotates out, creating a little set of legs that turns it into a stand.


i'll let you know how it goes.....



images from: http://www.nibs.com/OmasEmotica.htm except for the last one, which was borrowed from the Pen Boutique Ltd.

Starving?

for those of you who are content starved.....

you can live a part of my life vicariously here:
http://mortiseandtenon.blogspot.com/2009/01/galootaclaus-2008.html