Let's just wait until Nabster comes here and hits us with his huge collection. :lol:
*sigh* Fine.
Although to be frank I'm not nearly as into this as I could be. There are people with collections that make mine look like a 16 color box of Rose Art crayons.
I went to pull some things together and realized I don't remember where I put one pen roll that had another half a dozen or so pens in it. Also not included are boring cheapies or several vintage pens in various states of repair. These are just the ones that are whole, work, and get used. :lol:
General use pens, see? Desk sets, a Parker 51 on the left and Sheaffer's Touchdown and Snorkel on the right. Not pictured is a huge Sheaffer's double pen set with two Snorkels and a clock mounted on a slab of onyx nearly as large as a sheet of letter paper, it was originally a sales award to a Ford dealer in the 50s.
On the left under the Desk set is a vintage Japanese Jumbo fountain pen, a smelly rollerball, and a tiny keychain fountain pen.
Moving left, in the front are a pair of Montblanc Boheme retractable fountain pens, one in gold one in platinum.
Back left are a pair of Pelikans, a cartridge fountain and an M800 Demo with engravings.
The back of the platter are Parkers, the gold ones are a 45 fountain pen/pencil set. To the right are some 51s and a pencil.
Middle of the platter are 3 Pilot/Namiki Vanishing Points. These are probably my most favorite and most used fountain pens as they're highly practical with a retractable nib actuated by a click mechanism like most ballpoints today. Black Carbonesque in the back, limited edition Ice Green in the middle, and Raden in the front. The Raden one is my go-to pen the majority of the time.
Front of the platter is a Montblanc 149, this is the pen everyone associates with Montblanc, the big cigar pen.
In the flower frog on the right are various cheapish Sheaffer's and third tier pens.
Lamy (Safari, I think?) on bottom right.
Ink. I mentioned somewhere ink is another worm hole, didn't I? In contrast to their pens, I do quite like Montblanc ink, consequently I have rather a lot of it, though I haven't been to buy more in a while now.
Anyway, I think 11 standard bottles of Montblanc in various colors, including 3 bottles of the notoriously popular and discontinued Racing Green. There are also 4 years of different Season's Greetings scented inks and rose scented love letter ink.
Noodler's does some quirky stuff. I have original run bottles of Blue Ghost and Whiteness of whale, which are invisible but ultraviolet responsive and (at the time) the only true white fountain pen produced respectively.
Others include J. Herbin, Visconti, Waterman, Parker, Sheaffer, Lamy, and probably another one or two I'm forgetting.
Can't forget the Iroshizuku from Pilot. Beautiful (and expensive) bottles and colors there. Kon Peki is probably my favorite blue ink, the saturation and tone is beautiful.
The elephant sized bottle of Quink in the back is vintage, empty (thankfully, while I'm not opposed to vintage inks if they're kept well these quart bottles didn't seal well) and makes a neat display piece.
Ya happy now?