Edison Pen Co × Authors Reserve Limited Edition Collier Fountain Pen

This is the Edison Collier Limited Edition—and it exists because of you.

Almost a year in the making, this fountain pen based on the Collier by Edison Pen Co in Ohio features:

• Resin by Tim Crowe of Turnt Pen Co in New York

• An ink window, a first for the Collier and overwhelmingly requested by viewers in our survey

• Silver trim, also the top pick by viewers in our survey

• A #6 JoWo nib with Edison engraving

• Individually numbered, 01 through 25

Despite being about average size, it holds a whopping 4 ml of ink as an eye-dropper. This is my contribution. When I'm working on my novel, I can fill a converter one or two times during a 4-6 hour writing session. That takes me out of my flow state and it takes a while to get back into it. I need breaks, of course, but I want to take them on my schedule, not to do maintenance. With 4 ml, I'll run out before the pen will.

There are a lot of piston and vacuum fillers out there. Bigger, better, faster, stronger. I wonder if more tech is what we really need. So, I wanted to give people the opportunity to experience the no-fuss, easy-to-clean, high-volume, don't-fix-it-if-it-ain't-broken pen ownership that is an eyedropper filler. It comes with enough silicone grease to last a lifetime, a pipette (eyedropper), but also a standard international converter for those who prefer the it that way. Of course, it also accepts all standard internal cartridges—including longs.

Tim Crowe's "Mickey 2" was my third resin choice after I passed on the first two. It is a gorgeous, highly-variable Alumilite resin with burgundy and copper, turquoise and teal, purple and blue.

To name this edition of Collier, I used the resin for inspiration. Not an original idea, I realize, but the only thing that came close to this unusual melange of colors was Nebula NGC 2074, or "The Seahorse Nebula".

The NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud with its signature "Seahorse" cloud. For scale, it would take a beam of light 20 years to travel from the tail of the seahorse to its head. Image courtesy of NASA.

Can you imagine my surprise when that didn't have a name either?! Apparently something this stunning doesn't need one. So this pen doesn’t have a name either.

No two pens are alike—even the predominant color(s) will be different from pen to pen. Personally, I like the surprise of seeing "my pen" for the first time, the one that fate ordained. But if that's not for you, and you'd rather know, there is an option under Special Handling that allows you to choose your favorite from the available pens.