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I have a couple fountains that ended up in a desk drawer somewhere safe, but I mostly collect rollers and ballpoints. I have a few interesting mechanical pencils too, including one that came from McDonnell Douglas Truck Services. It's soft blue with gold trim on the clip. I also have a stunning Cross "Century" chrome/silver mechanical pencil, and, speaking of Japanese pencils, I use a Kerry 0.7 mechanical (black with silver trim) for most of my writing and sketching. I have a few gel ones but nothing exciting. Which Japanese gel pens do you recommend? I wouldn't mind finding some for my collection. 
When I get a minute I will take a few pictures of my favorites from my collection and put them up here. I never thought I'd find a place where other people are as crazy about pens and pencils as I am.

Well, just for writing experience (not too collectable really) check out some of the Japanese Pilots.  People know Pilot in the US, but in Japan they have WAY more models.  They've got a "Juice" model which goes down to about 0.3mm.  Another Pilot model is the G-TEC-Cx line.  I've got some of those Japanese gels, even ones down to 0.1mm, if you can believe that!!  And they write SMMOOOOOOOoooooooth!! too!  People think of gel pens like the ones they get at the grocery store, and if they ever tried some of these gel pens out of Japan they'd never use another pen.

Check out Jetpens.com.  They're a Japanese importer out of CA.  They've got an incredible selection.  I order way too much stuff from them (....every month!!!)   Amazon (JP) also has a lot of variety too, but it's just like dealing with regular Amazon where you really have to check prices.  They do honor your Prime though, at least last time I checked.  Sometimes you have to have a minimum order though to get the free shipping.  I never seem to have the problem of being below the minimum order...just ask my wife!  LOL!  She doesn't even bother asking what's in the packages anymore, just hollers out "Some more pencils showed up for you!"

And then there's the wooden pencil thing.  I've actually collected wood pencils for many many years though.  Back about 4 years ago I stopped, but now I've resumed again with a focus on Europe, India and Asia.  Otherwise, I have about every pencil made in North America back to about the 50's and the same for Japan.

This makes four of us now!  Cool!

Awesome!
I just looked up Jetpens.com, very cool selection. Thanks! I don't think I've ever used an 0.1mm before, that is outtasight!! I have a Pentel EnerGel which writes pretty good.

Here is a shot of my collection. The red box pencils go back to about 1953-1956. Census pencils. Note the 2 2/4!!! The Associated Commercial Pencils work well, I have a few boxes of them, they date around the 80s or early 90s. I use a 1980s Boston sharpener for my pencils. The almond colored one with the wood veneer trim.

From top to bottom: Parker Flighter CT ('70s), two Zebra F-701s, Cross "Century" mech pencil, the famous McDonnell Douglas Truck Services mech pencil, another similar model, and my trusty Kerry. I have about 150 pens/mechanical pencils in total but these are some of my favorites.




This is my "baby" (Parker CT)




You can hardly see it, but it is one of the Made in USA models.

Very nice!  I'll post up some pics of some of my pencils a bit later when I get to my other computer.  I used to have one of the Kerry's, but I haven't seen it in a while.  Lately I've been picking up some of the Koh-I-noor's (Super Pro Mecha) which was just discontinued, so I got in before the prices shot up to $110 bucks, and some of the new Zebras (the 'Tect 2way and the DelGuard).  The 'Tect 2way' is a hell of a pencil!  I used to have some of the F series Zebras but they weren't my favorite (too short).

I don't see one of the ubiquitous Pentel 20x series pencil anywhere in there! <GASP!!>  Everyone's GOTTA' have one of those!  Better get one quick though, because the legend has been discontinued in Japan, and the only ones left in North America are the Special Edition colors.  The prices are still inexpensive, but the Pentel P-205 certainly, and the P-207 are gotta' have's.  The P-203 is cool, but it's a recent edition to the 20x line.  The P-200 Series has now been replaced with the GraphGear 500 Series, which is a great pencil in its own right, but it's not the "Original" mechanical pencil we all know and love, the legend...the P-205!!   Start looking for one tomorrow...wherever you shop!  Seriously!  You will be absolutely kicking yourself when that $6 dollar pencil is selling for $250 bucks!! 

You can thank me later!