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

[Gruder]

Woooo I found my esterbrook, someone put it away into the meeting rooms pens stash

 

[maxman]

Woooo I found my esterbrook, someone put it away into the meeting rooms pens stash

Great news!

 

[the_edski]

Congrats on finding it! It was probably put there because that person probably didn't know what it was or how to use it. Sometimes, the pen-illiterate are good for something!

Woooo I found my esterbrook, someone put it away into the meeting rooms pens stash

 

[Trouthunter]

The bad: Two Watermans have been lost, very disappointing.
First, a wonderful Waterman Opera which I bought as my first real pen back in 1989. Many years of regular use along side an engraved Mont Blanc pencil, both were always in my shirt pocket. The Opera disappeared (along with several valuable items) during a divorce from my now, thankfully, sociopathic ex-wife.

Second - a Satin Purple Waterman Edison. Wonderful pen which I shared with a co-worker who started a mtg without a pen. I specifically told him not to lose it and be sure it made it's way home. Sure as stinky dung, he couldn't find it. Crap. And, he has NO appreciation for what he "lost".

The good: I found the Opera! It was inside my Zero Halliburton case in which I stashed and locked everything document of value during the tumultuous time with Godzilla. While she did take numerous valuable and invaluable items (including our children who she has poisoned against my entire family) this one piece of my professional history IS in tact. Happy for that and many other wonderful and amazing parts of my life!!

 

[andrew98]

Reaching for a small box on a shelf at work I fumbled it a bit and in much scramble I noticed weight in my hand left.... I dropped my Jinhao 500 although easily replaced and cheap it was my favourite and first FP I really liked, it landed directly on the nib and the tip took the brunt its gone for good

But luckily eBay can make for a speedy replacement... glad I take the cheap pens to work... which is an easy decision when you only have cheap pens , it will serve as a lesson to keep in mind once I spring for the Monteverde I want and whether to keep it at home

Life's too short. I write more at work than I do in any other part of my life, so I take my expensive pens to work. I just make sure that if I leave my work space, the pen goes with me to prevent theft or borrowing. That's no insurance against dropping one, though, but that could happen even at home.

-Andy

 

[Nova316]

Congrats on finding it! It was probably put there because that person probably didn't know what it was or how to use it. Sometimes, the pen-illiterate are good for something!

Great news!

I know I am so stoked, I saw the cap and thought to myself that it can't be someone must of used up all the ink and didn't know what to do with it. That was a meeting I couldn't wait for it to end so I could go grab what was mine. Of course it was completely dry of ink and had to be cleaned/refilled but I got it back! Oh how I missed it.

Made my entire weekend haha

I think someone found it/grabbed it and used it up. Then couldn't be bother refilling it so they left it in the meeting room. Oh well no point finding who grabbed it, but it did make me pick up two new Lamy FP to add to my collection and only using my Plaisir at work from now on.

 

[Doc4]

My first fountain pen was a Sheaffer that I had in highschool. It was a cheap-o that my parents bought for me when I expressed an interest in fountain pens. I eventually misplaced it, and got an identical replacement, which saw me through university. I eventually set it aside when my work at the time meant too much stop-start note-taking for the ink in the cartridges to handle.

I recently saw that pen floating around somewhere in amongst all my basement flotsam and jetsam, but can't find it now.



More recently, I lost my first 'real' fountain pen, a Pelikan 205. Months went by and I still couldn't find it. So I ordered two more (another 205, and a 215 ... blue with the silver stripes down the side.) About a year later, I found my original 205, tucked away in the pocket of a suit I hadn't worn in ages.

 

[benvh]

Got back from a weeks vacation and my Retro 51 rollerball was gone. Not expensive but it was a gift from years back and it wrote really well. Oh well, another reason I don't use anything too nice at work.

Ben