I’ve posted a couple of times recently about my Lamy pen collection. I’m not planning to grow it any further but I did want a better way of storing them than just leaving them lying on my desk or in a desktop organiser slot that didn’t fit them. I found a Makerworld model that did just that and printed it today. It has a Gridfinity base if I need it although, for now, it slots into part of my organiser that was too big for the pens on their own.

What I hadn’t twigged, either before selecting the model or taking this photo of my print, was that I seem to have the same collection of pens as the person who designed it and I’ve even placed them in the same order as their example picture!

Given the number of designs Lamy produce that is quite unusual. At the moment there seem to be about 27 colours across the Safari (plastic) and AL-Star (metal) ranges but the worn looking copper-coloured one (which I’ve had since 2018) isn’t among them. Let’s say there are 30 different designs out there and a person with a set of four could have four of the same or four different choices. That would give 30⁴ (810,000) permutations. You could also take into account where they are placed – because of the potential for duplicates, you can’t just multiply the number by 4 but that would still safely put the odds at less than 1 in a million. Probably reducing that somewhat will be the fact that not all colours will be equally popular or available but that would need some real world data so I think it still counts as somewhat remarkable.