[Leica] IMGs: Friday's flora, fungi and old stuff

[Douglas Barry]

George, I like the ink themed funghi and flower, and the pen is nice. I too, 
like the other self admitted luddites, use a fountain pen daily. 
Prosaically, my current plume ordinaire is one of two Shaeffer cartridge 
pens. One has dark green ink for letters of complaint :-), and the main one 
has blue ink.

The history of green ink which I regularly received on moaning letters to 
the financial institution I laboured in is well known. When I retired, and 
had a problem with an item myself, I decided to perpetuate the tradition, 
and bought a couple of green ink cartridges thinking ahead of the happer 
years of vituperous fulminating retirement.

I think I've used it twice.

Unfortunately, my 1944 Watermans - gold topped and presented to my father 
back then, but it may be 1943 as I never asked him what month of the year he 
got it - is missing its ink sac as it was ruptured. I hate to admit the 
sacrilege but I threw the sac away a couple of years ago. I must get it 
fixed.

Douglas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: Friday's flora, fungi and old stuff


> On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>The pen really appeals to me, as I am also one of those Luddites who still
>>uses fountain pens on a daily basis. My taste runs to the Japanese ones
>>though, which, like everything they do, are beautifully made, intricately
>>detailed and with more than a dozen nib choices.....
>>Cheers
>>Jayanand
> =================================================================
> I'm a daily user too.
>
> Two years ago I treated myself to a Pilot retractable pen after I dropped
> my Waterman
> while shopping and bent the nib about 45 degrees up, because the cap
> retaining
> mechanism was shot.  My pen store guy said it's not fixable.  But I was
> able to manipulate
> the nib back so that I can still use it at my desk where it doesn't matter
> if the cap is loose.
>
> -- 
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>
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