Drippy Musings
70 Pen News posts. Shop news, pen show reports (Chicago, DC, Dallas and Ohio through 2020), holiday shipping deadlines and what came in this month. The running diary of ThePenMarket.com since 2013.
Wow! What a show this year in Atlanta! Tons of pen lovers, just as many young as old, all sharing in the inky goodness! We had a heck-of-a-time. It was so much fun seeing our old friends like the great Texas pen trader Joe Lowe and making many new friends. And there was so much…
In the next several days we will be taking down Yard-O-Led from our “New” pens pages. It is a shame, as we never fully explored them as we had hoped. There was just too much going on to post all of the available models. Recently, we learned our distributor would no longer carry the brand.…
Last-minute shoppers are running out of time to get those orders arriving before Christmas, as this USPS poster indicates. Be forewarned that Friday looks to be our last day to ship merchandise to reasonably expect it to arrive for Christmas when using first class mail. If you use Priority Mail, insurance is included, and you…
November has been a crazy-busy month. First, I turned 40 near the start of the month. Friends flew in from Montana, and others locally joined in for much mirth and madness. Here are three trays of new fountain pens for this website. Most of them are already fully restored! The following weekend saw me in…
Due to clever internet criminals figuring out a loop hole in transaction policies, we are forced to change the way we ship overseas. For more than 7 years we proudly offered $15 uninsured global shipping. Everybody knew there was some small risk that the pen would go missing, but it wasn’t a problem. We have…
Witness more than 300 vintage and modern fountain pens and writing instruments we have recently acquired for the website! If anything catches your eye, ask and we’ll tell you all about it. It has been a while since we updated these pages, but we’ve been extremely busy putting together 3 huge acquisitions of vintage and…
Fireworks glow softly just out of focus on the Fourth of July. Congratulations to our winner of the First Ever Lamy Lottery. Congratulations to Dacia N! She won the brand new Lamy AL-Star fountain pen and ink! We had more than 30 entries from between June 4 and July 4. Thank you to everybody who…
We like you. We really, really like you! We will especially really, really like one of you on the 4th of July! With every purchase of a pen or pencil from ThePenMarket.com between June 4 and July 4 (at 6 p.m.) you will be given a chance to win this great aluminum Lamy Al-Star and…
It has taken us nearly a week to recover from the awesomeness that was the Atlanta Pen Show. It was that good. The show was packed with collectors on Saturday and Sunday. We got to meet hundreds of people, and we saw more awesome pens than we could afford. I did come away with a…
One of the coolest parts about owning a pen business is learning about people’s “other” pen collections. Every pen collector has their collection of daily users and museum pieces often built around brands such as Sheaffer, Parker, Mont Blanc and all of the others. But many collectors have special side project collections, too. I love…
We’ve done it! ThePenMarket.com is now a fully licensed and authorized dealer of Lamy and Yard-O-Led writing instruments! When we first launched this business, we figured we’d have a complete assortment of every brand-new modern pen available on the market within 6 months. We also didn’t know jack about anything. Yet, after 7 years of…
Hello to the members of The Black Pen Society. I hope this year’s pin is as cool as last year’s! This is the thrilling weekend of the D.C. Pen Show, one of the biggest vintage pen shows in the country. Sadly, we couldn’t be there this weekend, but all of our best goes out to…
