Mourning Lost Pens (sadness inside, you've been warned)

[maxman]

Well i'm sure we've all done it.
You bring a pen somewhere outside the house.
You use a pen inside your house.
You are as careful as can be.

And then.....

You can't find it. Anywhere.
It's gone.

You aren't alone!
Let it out and mourn the loss of your pen.

[the_edski]

Haven't owned nice pens long enough to experience this, but I sincerely hope it never happens to me. Sorry for your loss, Marc!

[maxman]

Oh I almost forgot.
I lost my Cross Townsend BP a week or so ago.
I have turned the house upside down and it's gone.

*sniff, sniff*

[Isaac]

My Montblanc Thomas Mann ended up disappearing earlier this year....im still pretty pissed about that one

[Prof. Moriarty]

My Waterman does not leave my hands... ever. I refuse to lose it (as it was a gift).

[Doc4]

My Waterman does not leave my hands... ever. I refuse to lose it (as it was a gift).

what never?

I am reminded that even though The Bandit said he never ever took his hat off ...



... eventually he did.

[Prof. Moriarty]

I think you are taking my statement a tad too literally Doc

[Gruder]

Had a lovely green 1980's namiki vanishing point. Great pen. Lost it at a faculty meeting a couple of years ago.




Or so I thought...



Found it two months ago in the interior breast pocket of an (apparently) seldom-worn sportcoat. 'Twas a wonderful reunion.

So see, there's hope yet! My condolences to those of you with losses, all the same.

[oc_in_fw]

what never?

I am reminded that even though The Bandit said he never ever took his hat off ...



... eventually he did.

Well Sally Fields in the 70s was worth taking your hat off for.

[Jim]

Well Sally Fields in the 70s was worth taking your hat off for.

"Shaky pudding"

[Mike Schutz]

Having been a road salesman, I've lost track how many Cross BP's I've lost in my dealers over the years. Fortunately, many of them were pens with the corporate logo!

[Jporco]

Nearly lost my whole collection from a divorce 10 years ago.... But I still mourn the loss of my Watermans Partrician BHR that seemed to be in my briefcase one day and gone the next....I hurt over that one!

[mdevine]

I lost my Parker 51 about a year ago. I cleaned out my closet a few weeks back. I found it in an old shoe I was throwing out. I felt like a little kid at Christmas.

[Bob the aged Lurcher]

When I cleared a deceased Aunt's property a few years ago, I found a black Parker Duofold that I decided to use in memory of her. The nib broke so I replaced the nib, then the plastic on the barrel shattered as old plastic sometimes does, I replaced that, then the body of the pen and finally the cap. I still own the pen, to me it is my Aunt's pen but at the same time it is not, to paraphrase Sir Terry (as he is now) Pratchett it is the axe of Aunt.

[Gorigoitia]

I lost the waterman my mother gave me for my 30 bday. I know it was stolened at the office.

[Jimmy James]

I bought a Pelikan M200 Anthracite demonstrator with an XF nib maybe a year after I started collecting (four years ago). It got virtually no use until about 3 years ago when I got a sweet Binderized broad nib for it at the Raleigh Pen Show. From then on, it was one of my favorite pens.

Last November just before I took a trip for continuing education (capital defense), it went missing. I think I lost it in the courthouse. I'm still sick over it. I have had pens I know were mislaid, but this one I am sure is just gone. It went so well with what was my favorite ink at the time, Diamine Majestic Blue. It's not an easy pen to replace at all. The only faint silver lining is that I now know thanks to TWSBI, Edison, and a few others that I like a bigger pen than the M200.

[Pro2010]

None lost, but I just found my Vista inside my Golden Retriever puppy mouth. Only the barrel is damage and at $20 for a replacement barrel for a $30 pen. Multiple grit sandpaper I smooth it out, Only the top of the barrel where the cap it posted which affects the converter so everytime the barrel is unscrewed the converter moves. Now the hard part, trying to grind down the inside of the barrel.. Pen isn't lost yet!

[duokun]

I lost my Lamy Safari in a move a few years ago. I was without fountain pens for a good while then. Recently my girlfriend lost the preppie I gave her. I had taken an orange platinum highliter and swapped a med nib in (because orange is her fav color). It was just a cheap preppie but she loved it and was really upset when she lost it. I need to replace it for her soon. Thinking of getting her something a bit nicer when I get a job.

[pal]

This year alone I have lost 2 Lamy Vistas. I hate when that happens! But I feel you pain.

[Domminigan]

Multiple Cross gold and silver pens and pencils vanished during my high school years. My Grandad gave me his rose gold set he'd had for years, then my Dad gave me his many, many sets (he worked at an office supply store and never really liked them). I started using a set at school, and before I realized it I was down to three sets. My Grandad's set one regular gold set and one black laquer set. I had a cow, thought friends were stealing them from my house, stopped taking them to school and locked them up. I brought it up a few weeks ago and it turns out that my mom had thought I was taking a different set to school every day and giving them away, so she put all the ones she could find in the safe.
I should have figured it out much sooner, as she has a history of locking my stuff up in their safe. I hadn't seen either of my Great Grandpa's watches in twenty years and thought them long lost when they turned up in the safe a year ago.