The Sheaffer Targa is an awesome pen design, and that collection is Museum quality! Thank you for sharing your passion with all of us! Cheers! (the opening collection wide shot left me breathless. wow!)
Dear Stef and Alan, I watched several times the previous video on Alan's collection and I thought then that Alan was a model of a complete collector. I still think that he is an accomplished collector, restorer and writer, those three elements being, in my opinion, the ingredients needed to build the character of a real Fountain Pens lover. I was impressed then, apart from his collection itself, by Alan's precise preference in choosing certain Fountain Pens for certain tasks, setting a kind of specialization among them. There was also a supreme preference for one Fountain Pen, that being used for the most important tasks, where full security of the writing was needed. With this new video, concentrated on Sheaffer Targas, I was glad to see that Alan use to rotate the Fountain Pens he writes with. Good for him! That's the spirit I also like to encourage myself into. In a few words, it would be 'specialization and rotation'. That I was deeply impressed by the beauty of the Fountain Pens in Alan's collection, it is beyond any doubt. Additionally, it seems to me as being an extremely optimized collection, meaning that the selection of its components arrived to a top. That proves it is a dynamic collection, improving all the time the quality of the collected Fountain Pens. I am very grateful to you, Stef for showing these two twin videos, not only for the beauty of the Fountain Pens in the collection, but also for offering the opportunity to see that two persons, quite different as I could notice, were put together in a wonderful friendship. That was a new and touching proof that Fountain Pens connect and harmonize people. Thank you both for the video and for being genuine friends, held together in that admirable relationship by the Fountain Pens! I wish you both all the best! Best Regards Anton-Mihai
The confusing thing about Sheaffer from my pen selling days was all Sheaffer pens were known more by the model number than the colour etc! A nice collection Alan has. I was always fond of the Triumph range as well as the lower priced pens like No Nonsense, I was amazed what price they sell for now on eBay, they were around £4.99 in my days!
Thank you for a wonderful selection and for the information. Do either of you know where one might purchase the Targa Stainless Steel Calligraphy set with B, M and F nibs? Thanks for all the neat videos,,
@@alandavies4160 there's no other words that can describe it. By the way, how many pieces do you have for each model? If there's more than one, i might want to have some, at least one.
