I appear to have accumulated a pile of pens since a fountain pen craze broke out in our office last year.
Currently:
1. Sheaffer No Nonsense calligraphy pen with an italic nib. I wrote my university thesis with it in May 1990 and then retired it for 21 years. It worked first time I put a cartridge in it. Has a screw cap which is something else to fiddle with in meetings.
2. Sheaffer Agio in the lurid limited-edition plasma/rainbow finish. People lust after this pen at work and I have to be careful where I leave it.
3. Sheaffer Triumph Imperial (the 1990s model) in a rather nice burgundy with that over-engineered inlaid nib. Looks great but the cap just pushes on in a non-positive manner, unlike any other push-on cap I've tried which clicks on. This annoys me a bit.
4. Lamy Al-Star in blue. Like all Lamys the medium nib is actually pretty wide and wet. Not pretty but writes very smoothly when it's not clogged. I've given up on Lamy ink and am using a converter and bottled ink now. Used the 1.5mm italic nib for a bit but it wasn't anywhere near as nice for italic script as the Sheaffer.
5. Lamy Al-Star in raspberry. Same as above, writes the same.
6. Lamy Vista (transparent plastic version of the pens above). As a practical fountain pen this is all you really need, and it cost about seven quid. You can see how much ink is left at a glance and there are some funky chromed parts, like the inner cap and the Lamy logo.
I also keep finding 1970s Papermate ballpoints in the changing rooms. I advertise on the work intranet but no-one ever claims them. I should probably get the burgundy and black-barrelled versions off eBay to complete the set.
We have a contractor in this week who is using a Montblanc fountain pen with orange ink