This is a rough and incomplete timeline of my acquisitions as I purchased or received, which will/may become a table-of-contents for reviews and notes as I write them.

It’s mainly for my own tracking.

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I quit buying ink and pens in March 2019 for a few reasons… mainly just not having the time to devote to the hobby, and a growing collection that seemed wasteful all things considered. I left the various FP-related Facebook groups as a result.

Since then I managed to stay “dry” until August 2019, when the FPUK special edition inks were released, followed by a couple of good deals.

August 2019

• Diamine x Niche Pens Alexandrite – red-sheening blue
• Diamine FPUK Scribble Purple
• Diamine FPUK Monboddo’s Hat
• Mont Blanc Oyster Grey 60ml – a special offer
• Waterman Inspired Blue 50ml – to qualify for free shipping.

Below is the state of the wishlist / timeline before quitting.

Wishlist

• Platinum 3776 Laurel Green (Soft Fine, or maybe Medium [see below])
• Platinum 3776 Black Diamond (Medium, or maybe Soft Fine [see above])
• Pilot Custom 823 Smoke (FA nib, very special order from Tokyo Pen Shop Quill) – with 743ER red ebonite feed from Flexible Nib Factory
• Platinum President PTB-20000P (Soft Medium?)
• Platinum 3776 Kumpoo (Soft Medium), or a similar special 3776 with Soft Medium.
• Kaweco Steel Sport (Medium nib) – and a blowtorch to flame-blue it.
• Pelikan M1000 (Medium nib) – nice softness/semi-flex
• Pelikan M800 (Medium nib)
• Montblanc 149 (gotta be done at one point, right?)
• Organics Studio Hemingway
• Organics Studio Nitrogen
• Cult Pens Iridescink “Maureen”
• Iroshizuku Ama-Iro
• Iroshizuku Kon-Peki
• Robert Oster Fire & Ice
• Noodler’s Bay State Blue
• LEGO Saturn V (21309) [yeah, not a pen.]
• Jansport Digital Burrito wrap (Egg Roll)
• All Blackwing Volumes :) Blackwing Pencil Sharpener.
• Jinhao 999 Double Dragon Cloisonne; blue or red.
• Lanbitou 3059 (TWSBI Eco knock-off… looks fairly blatant!)

Awaiting

• 2/2 A whole bunch of new Jinhaos from AliExpress

March 2019

• 3/??? Jinhao 999 Double Dragon Purple Cloisonne

February 2019

• 2/3 Twiss Red Alumilite, JoWo custom, Broad (Bristol Pen Show)
• 2/3 TWSBI GO, Medium, Blue (Bristol Pen Show)
• 2/3 KWZ Green Gold ink (Bristol Pen Show)
• 2/3 KWZ Midnight Green ink (Bristol Pen Show)
• 2/3 Sailor Jentle Yuki-Akari ink (new old stock, large) (Bristol Pen Show)

January 2019

• 1/30 Moo.com Notebooks (Hard and softcover duo, red/turquoise), Moo.com cards
• 1/30 Sainsbury’s HOME fountain pen (black)
• 1/30 Pilot V-Pen (blue, medium)
• 1/20 Jinhao nib (!)
• 1/20 Hero 1501 Black Golden
• 1/15 Maped BONG! BOOOOM! POW! (from Emmy)
• 1/12 Jinhao 51A, Burgundy
• 1/12 Pilot Custom 743 FA, with an ebonite feed from Flexible Nib Factory
• 1/11 Online Denim Dragon
• 1/10 Sheaffer 100 Blue and Chrome, Medium
• 1/5 Jinhao Leopard, Ancient Silver

December 2018

• 12/24 Yikes! Green Monster, from Emmy
• 12/28 Wing Sung 3008, to replace the one I just dissolved accidentally.
• 12/19 Conklin Nozac Ohio Blue, Medium
• 12/18 Staedtler Concrete Ballpoint – not a fountain pen, but interesting!
• 12/18 Jinhao display stand (finally found one cheap)
• 12/18 Little Bear Fountain Pen (Pink 0.5mm)
• 12/13 Mohamm Luxury Crystal Refillable brush/fountain pen
• 12/13 Wanwu Mini Custom Glass Dip / Fountain Pen (Aurora)
• 12/13 3 Inch Mini Metal Pocket Pen
• 12/12 Blackwing 602, Original, Pearl; one each
• 12/11 Jansport Digital Burrito wrap (Pop Art)
• 12/11 Monteverde tool pen - Copper.
• 12/11 Cult Pens Iridescink “Robert”
• 12/10 Porcelain pens
• 12/10 Jansport Digital Burrito wrap (Multi Stickers)
• 12/10 Blackwing Volume 10001; x 1
• 12/10 GLP Creations “The Author” notebook, with Tomoe River 68gsm.
• 12/5 More “Cigarette” pens for the purposes of mocking up a “six-shooter”.
• 12/4 Final (for now) Jinhao Swan Cyan/Sky Blue, missing from original set.
• 12/4 Jansport Digital Burrito wrap (Disney Space)
• 12/1 Baoer 801 Aurora Borealis (Parker Vector knock-off… nice finish, though)
• 12/1 Wing Sung 809 Gold Carved 0.5mm

November 2018

• 11/28 Platinum 3776 Chartres Blue (Soft Fine) – ~£55, arrived from Japan in less than a week with no fees (shout out to PARAISO Japan eu on Amazon!)
• 11/27 Jinhao x750 x 3 – Matt black, Bumpy black, Stainless Steel
• 11/22 Star Wars BiC Xpen – Stormtrooper
• 11/21 Yikes! Stark Raving Balloopy Pen, from Emmy as a retaliatory strike in the Global Waz on Taste. ‡
• 11/21 Yiren(?) 878 gunmetal twist. Nice. Retrofitted with FPR Flex 5.5
• 11/7 Noodler’s Neponset, Forbidden City. Reground Music nib (poor result)
• Jinhao 159 Black (to make an obviously-fake MB 149)

October 2018

• 10/29 Pilot Pluminix blue Bold Italic (stub’ish)
• 10/26 Jinhao 5000 Black and Golden Dragon Embossed (M)
• 10/26 Jinhao Y2 Hovering Dragon, red
• 10/22 Kawaii Pokit Bunny pens x 3
• 10/22 Bic Select retractable red Dragon pen (a.k.a Stypen UP) (Etsy) c. 2000s §§
• 10/15 Pure Pens Beddgelert, Castell Coch
• 10/15 Organics Studio Henry David Thoreau “Walden Pond Blue”
• 10/6 “Cigarette” pen
• 10/6 Zhuting Safari-alike demonstrator stubs, 0.7mm, (1.1mm missing), 1.5mm, 1.9mm, 2.5mm, 2.9mm
• 10/4 “Glamy” pens x 3

September 2018

• 9/7 Mutant Sharks
• 9/1 I Love Duck
• 9/1 Crocodile

August 2018

• 8/24 Pilot Vanishing Point Matte Black §
• 8/24 TWSBI Vac 700 §
• 8/24 TWSBI Eco, white cap §
• 8/24 Pilot Metropolitan § (with CON-50)
• 8/24 Pilot Custom 912 FA §
• 8/21 Jinhao Swan, x 11 (Fine)
• 8/21 Jinhao Shark, new demonstrators x 3 (Fine)
• 8/17 FPR Himalaya (Green Ebonite, Ultra Flex), FPR Darjeeling (Demonstrator, Ultra Flex)
• 8/15 TWSBI Go (Smoke Grey)
• 8/15 Faber-Castell Progress 55S(?) §
• 8/8 Platinum 3776 Bourgogne (Soft Fine) §
• 8/6 Jansport Digital Burrito wrap (original Burrito)
• 8/6 Delike Alpha, “Antique Brass” (Extra Fine)
• 8/5 Wing Sung 698 (Soft Extra Fine)
• 8/5 PAScribe manual
• 8/1 Monte Mount Silver Flower Amber Celluloid
• 8/1 Jinhao 250 Golden Abstract (ugly)
• 8/1 Hero 767 Art Deco / Mondrian

July 2018

• 7/31 Baobao pens
• 7/28 Jinhao Cobra (Dark)
• 7/27 Dikawen 891 Red Wine
• 7/26 Pelikan Twist x 2 (Lidl)
• 7/23 Lanxivi Fuliwen Eagle - red (Angry Owl)
• 7/23 Jinhao Shark Demonstrator, Gray
• 7/23 Wing Sung 601 (Extra Fine) – Vacumatic clone
• 7/21 Scrikss Noble 35, Titanium [Giveaway by United Inkdom] ‡
• 7/18 Lanxivi Fuliwen 2086 Elephant - silver
• 7/18 Jinhao Cobra (Golden)
• 7/17 Waterman Expert (Medium) – Prime Day
• 7/12 Fake Safaris, Unicorn Pens, Syringe Pens
• 7/11 Jinhao Dragon and Pearl (red/grey)
• 7/11 Jinhao Double Dragon (red/grey)
• 7/6 Jinhao Shark Pens x 12
• 7/6 Kuretake Fude No. 8
• 7/4 Krishna Inks - Jungle Volcano, Vaikhari, Sumukhy, Anokhi, Snake Boat, Pencil, Brown Pink
• 7/2 Wing Sung 3008 Demonstrator (Fine)
• 7/2 Parker Quink, Black
• 7/2 Field Notes Three Missions, Back Pocket SpaceX

June 2018

• 6/30 Jinhao Golden Dragon Tower
• 6/30 Jinhao 999 Bronze Double Dragon
• 6/30 FPR Jaipur, Guru (FPR Flex)
• 6/28 Wing Sung 3009 Demonstrator x 6 (Fine and Extra-Fine)
• 6/27 Jinhao Dragon 41 Noble Grey
• 6/26 Nick Stewart Randall
• 6/24 Pure Pens English Collection - Windermere, St. George’s Cross, Cotswolds, Buckingham Blue
• 6/24 Parker Vacumatic, Burgundy Pearl, Flex, c.1934 §§
• 6/24 Jinhao Dragon and Phoenix, Silver/Black
• 6/21 Noodler’s Ahab Demonstrator
• 6/21 Diamine Ochre Fountain Pen Ink - 30ml
• 6/9 J. Herbin 1670 Caroube de Chypre Ink
• 6/9 Diamine Sunshine Yellow Fountain Pen Ink - 30ml
• 6/8 Conklin DuraFlex #0455 §
• 6/7 Glass pen
• 6/3 Mabie Todd Swan, Gold Filled, #2 nib, c.1931 §§

May 2018

• 5/31 Pure Pens Ink - Saltire Blue, Pendine Sands, Llanberis Slate, Porthcurno Cove, Glens of Antrim
• 5/27 Micro-mesh, 3M Mylar
• 5/24 FPR Muft, Serwex 1362 x 5 (FPR Flex nib)
• 5/23 Pure Pens Ink - Flower of Scotland, Cwm Idwal, Cadwaladr
• 5/9 Noodler’s Konrad Demonstrator x 2
• 5/2 Noodler’s Ahab, Demonstrator

April 2018

• 4/29 Modified Ahab
• 4/26 Jinhao X750, Lava Red (Medium)
• 4/26 Jinhao 159, Red, White
• 4/20 Jinhao X750, Stainless Steel (Zebra G)
• 4/17 Pure Pens Ink - Celtic Sea
• 4/17 Noodler’s Ahab, Demonstrator
• 4/13 Noodler’s Ahab, Iroquois
• 4/13 Lamy Vista (Fine)
• 4/11 Lamy Safari, All Black “Tiger” (Fine)
• 4/11 Dryden Luxury Fountain Pen, Rosewood – rebadged, overpriced pen from China. Too small, so donated to niece.
• 4/11 Diamine 30ml Jet Black fountain pen ink bottle
• 4/11 Diamine 30ml Imperial Purple fountain pen ink bottle

February 2018

• 2/15 Tombow Bright Markers
• 2/11 Tombow Lettering Kit
• 2/10 Tombow “Fudenosuke” Soft Brush Pen - Black

2002

• Parker Frontier, translucent blue, c. 2002