My next good pen was a sterling silver S. T. Dupont with a guilloche pattern similar to the one at the left. I got it a little over 10 years ago, and it appears that my model is no longer available.1
Mine tapers to a rounded head, rather than having the flat top like this one, but it has the same broad nib, 14K gold and rhodium. I bought it at a Colorado Pen Company store when there used to be one in Westfarms Mall. Unless I'm mistaken, there's a Mont Blanc shop there now.2
Like my Cross Townsend, it has a metal body and a substantial weight to it. It's broad nib leaves a beautiful line, especially with bright blue ink. I pull it out when I need a "signature" pen for important letters. It's always with me when I have my pen cases with me3, but I don't use it that often. It has a very nice line and it writes well, but it's filled with blue ink for signatures, and I use black ink in my journal. I don't know why I decided to use black ink for my journal, but I did, and I'm a creature of habit. I don't like the idea of switching ink colors, and I like the idea of mixing blue and black even less. Unless I adopt a new signature pen, this one will remain a nearly constant companion infrequently used.
Mine tapers to a rounded head, rather than having the flat top like this one, but it has the same broad nib, 14K gold and rhodium. I bought it at a Colorado Pen Company store when there used to be one in Westfarms Mall. Unless I'm mistaken, there's a Mont Blanc shop there now.2
Like my Cross Townsend, it has a metal body and a substantial weight to it. It's broad nib leaves a beautiful line, especially with bright blue ink. I pull it out when I need a "signature" pen for important letters. It's always with me when I have my pen cases with me3, but I don't use it that often. It has a very nice line and it writes well, but it's filled with blue ink for signatures, and I use black ink in my journal. I don't know why I decided to use black ink for my journal, but I did, and I'm a creature of habit. I don't like the idea of switching ink colors, and I like the idea of mixing blue and black even less. Unless I adopt a new signature pen, this one will remain a nearly constant companion infrequently used.
1Appearances to the contrary, I am not a serious pen collector. I often don't keep the original packing that my pens came in, and only for some of them do I remember the actual model numbers or names. This is one of those that I don't remember.
2Just in case you're wondering, you won't see a Mont Blanc in these Monday pens, unless I make another post about a pen I don't own. I don't own a Mont Blanc.
3I carry 5 pen cases with me in my attache case, one 3-pen case, 3 2-pen cases, and 1 1-pen case. Count 'em up. Ten fountain pens in all.
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