Well at the Atlanta show I often get a modern pen or two and a vintage pen or two and this year was no exception, although I was having a hard time finding a vintage pen. I had looked over Tim Pierson's collection many times and was thinking about getting an Eversharp Skyline as I don't have one of these. I had one at one time, but it wasn't in the best of shape and I sold it. It was Sunday and I still hadn't bought a single pen.

The night before was the pizza party and I hung out afterwards with a few guys, Lee Anderson, Rob Bader, Tim Pierson and others. Rob and Lee had some interesting stories and later the next day I figured I'd check out their table of stuff a little more.

Actually on Saturday Rob let my son and a friend of his pick through a box of pens and take one. I cleaned up one today and put a new sac in it and it's a nice little pen.

Anyway, I digress, I had stopped by their table on Saturday and looked around a little bit, but some of these stuff they had didn't appeal to me. But as I looked closer on Sunday I noticed that had some cool and unusual stuff. Looking through Rob's stuff I found this sweet little (pictured above next to a Parker 51 for size comparison) Lady Parker (don't know the official name, although Rob told me). He actually had two like this but different years. The other one had a regular nib on it, and this one had this awesome looking factory stub nib.

Here is a writing sample from it.

This pen looks and feels like a miniature Parker 51. It was made in England and apparently wasn't available in the US. I almost thought about not using it, but a stub nib that nice looking I just had to try it out. This will probably be a keeper and user.