Correspondent Mitchell F., AKA Aphexian.
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Congrats on the power supply.
That Munktone microcassette wouldn’t happen to be an Olympus in disguise would it?
The player Mitchell is showing? I dunno. He has got an Olympus, but he’s also got a few different ones, I think.
Guess I should check on here a bit more often. Its an Olympus Pearlcorder L200 microcassette recorder, well spotted. L200s are probably the very best handheld microcassette recorders ever made, and I’ve owned literally hundreds of models as I used to collect them. The whole Munktone thing was sort of a joke. Mr. Munk has his own brand of tapes, and he creates them one by one. Artisanal, handcrafted. -Mitchell
Apologies about the rollerball explosion and blue hands. I’m mainly a fountain pen guy, but I do dabble in other writing instruments, and I know you said you weren’t much into them yourself so I thought perhaps you could get some use out of some more normal (but nice) pencils and or a pen. Anyways, hope you enjoyed the few extras and goodies. -Mitchell
I did! :D
It’s not the first time I’ve had rollerball leaks in a summer mailing. The heat can be brutal on pens sometimes. :P
Is that a Parker Arrow, by chance? The Parker Arrow, 88/Rialto, and 95 series pens were all quite nice. Think I have a 95 model RB (which was sort of the successor model to the Arrow) about somewhere. Sad that Parker doesn’t make this line of pens anymore. Hope you enjoy it.
Looks like it. I’m a fan of Parkers, especially the all-stainless Parker Jotter with a .05 rollerball fill in it.
I just checked and found a “UL” datecode, so looks like 1981. Looks most like a “95” to me, but I’ve read that started in 1988. *shrug* maybe an “88”?
I’ve got a Parker Jotter they gave to the employees when they closed down the Janesville plant. Kind of bittersweet really. As for the rollerball, I was never sure if it was an Arrow/88/95 or what, I got it in a pen lot years ago. I can identify Parker fountain pens from miles away, but RB/BPs not so much. -Mitch
I was kinda going off the shape of the clip from the “inky finger” pic. Looked like an Arrow clip from that angle. I’ve got some these FP’s somewhere that probably need cleaning, or re-inking. The problem with having WAY too many pens. ;-)
The clip is 3-faceted, if that helps.