Set Of School Pens

[mikalehtinen]

I found this set of old school pens on the local Ebay.

The value of the pens is probably not that much but as a teacher it feels kind of nice to have a set of old school pens.

This set of 20 Penol pens is in great condition, probably never used. Every pen has its own number.

The students all got their own and had to return it when they finished school. If you didn't treat the pen carefully, you probably had to pay or by a new one.

 

I never got the chance to write with FPs in school, I'm too young ( Luckily because otherwise they would have forced me to use my right hand)

Cheers,

Mika

[MaddyMarcel]

These are beautiful, I know you will enjoy them. I have two newer model cartridge school pens from Sheaffer, and they are both wonderful. They're super smooth writers. I put standard Sheaffer converters in them so I can use bottle ink.

 

Have you inked these yet? Let's see how they write!

[John54green]

Very cool! I wish my school would have had such! I'm a retired teacher and would bring in both dip and fountain pens for students to use on some assignments, it was great fun, and did wonders for their penmanship! Thanks for sharing! John

[mikalehtinen]

Thank you Maddy and John!

 

Right now I teach in 3rd grade, primary school. I might ink up my pens for the students, but i think 3rd graders might be too young, lets see in the near future.

Here is a picture of the whole set of pens.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1362864341__8540497813_6751ca3d05_z.jpg

Did you have the same thoughts about left/right handed in the US back in pre 1960s? In Finland every lefthanded student was forced to write and use the right hand for all schoolwork ( In a way i understand.. we leftys tend to drag our hand in the ink but modern ink work for me.)

great to hear that you used good writingtools in your classes John!

Maddy, I will ink a pen or two up and give you a writing sample.

These pens are also cartridge pens, I've used similar and they seem to be quite alright!

Cheers, Mika

[John54green]

I resisted changing from my left, and the result was I right poorly with both hands! My students however, loved that I wrote with both. Third graders are probably too young, but you'll know better than I! Enjoy the pens and your students, mine give and gave me much joy! Regards, John

[whych]

Did you have the same thoughts about left/right handed in the US back in pre 1960s? In Finland every lefthanded student was forced to write and use the right hand for all schoolwork ( In a way i understand.. we leftys tend to drag our hand in the ink but modern ink work for me.)

great to hear that you used good writingtools in your classes John!

I think the general feeling in most countries was that you were forced to write with your right hand and only in the mid to late sixties did they let you choose for yourself.

US and UK pens never made a nib specifically aimed at left handed writers,

The numbering on the pens seems to be common in Europe and most of the old piston fill pens had a serial number on them. Even the less common Pelikan 120 had a serial number. I thought it was so that you could identify your pen but it now makes sense if you say the kids were issued with a pen and had to hand it back.

[MaddyMarcel]

Thank you Maddy and John!

 

Right now I teach in 3rd grade, primary school. I might ink up my pens for the students, but i think 3rd graders might be too young, lets see in the near future.

Here is a picture of the whole set of pens.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1362864341__8540497813_6751ca3d05_z.jpg

Did you have the same thoughts about left/right handed in the US back in pre 1960s? In Finland every lefthanded student was forced to write and use the right hand for all schoolwork ( In a way i understand.. we leftys tend to drag our hand in the ink but modern ink work for me.)

great to hear that you used good writingtools in your classes John!

Maddy, I will ink a pen or two up and give you a writing sample.

These pens are also cartridge pens, I've used similar and they seem to be quite alright!

Cheers, Mika

 

Mika,

 

Here too, lefties were often forced to become righties in the 60s. In the part of the US where I grew up, vestiges of the idea were still hanging around as late as 79-80; if I remember correctly we had to write with pencils the first two years of school, and the party line was that left handed writing could cause these to smudge. By that late date, efforts at conversion were pretty half-hearted though.

[Skyppere]

When do these date from? Your school pens, I mean. By way of contrast...

 

Here's a set, sort of, of Sheaffer School pens...

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/DSC_0688-1-1.jpg

These, however are not vintage like your cool set.

skyppere

Edited March 10, 2013 by Skyppere

[Newjelan]

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Thank you Maddy and John!

 

Did you have the same thoughts about left/right handed in the US back in pre 1960s? In Finland every lefthanded student was forced to write and use the right hand for all schoolwork ( In a way i understand.. we leftys tend to drag our hand in the ink but modern ink work for me.)

Cheers, Mika

 

Great pens Mika.

In Australia the practice of forcing students to write right handed had ceased by the early 1950s thank goodness. My father was forced to change by having his left hand tied behind his back (barbaric!).

My Aunty (mother's sister) remained left handed because my tiny, little grandmother went to the school (late 1940's) and threatened the teachers and the Principal. It worked for her.

3 out of 5 members of my family are left-handed (including me) and my husband and 2 of his 3 brothers also.

[mikalehtinen]

Thank you all for your comments!

 

Impressingly many of todays FP users are left handed!

Thats interesting.

 

I was born 1968 and by the time I started school they left us lefties alone, no more forceing.

Skyppere, I think my set of pens are from about 1965-1970 but thats just a guess. ( your pens are beauties!)

 

The set is NOS, probably because the school got them at the time when ballpoint pens took over.

Keep on writing with your both hands and great pens!

Mika

[Mags]

Good pictures. I hope.to see a writing sample next.

[YouCollectMe]

Here is another School Gountain Pen from Germany: Geha Schullfuller. It also has a number, I assume the same reason as you posted. Interesting fact about it - it has this "RESERVE TANK" feature, allowing to write couple more pages when ink finishes.

[mikalehtinen]

Here is another School Gountain Pen from Germany: Geha Schullfuller. It also has a number, I assume the same reason as you posted. Interesting fact about it - it has this "RESERVE TANK" feature, allowing to write couple more pages when ink finishes.

Thanks for this picture! that looks lika a nice pen, interesting with the reserve..

Cheers, mika

[Unky]

I taught 3rd grade the past five years and was moved to 4th this year, my students love watching me write with one of my fountain pens. A few have even started using varsity fountain pens themselves.

[kilties1pet]

my sister is a 'sinister' writer. She writes beautifully but she writes up side-down. I thought of getting her her own lefty pen. My 'Adopted sister' is also a 'South paw' and Drags her hand as she writes SMEARING EVERYTHING as she goes. I could not fathom her with a fountain pen and she said she couldn't Imagine it herself even after I told her that there are lefties. go figure. As for me My niece is becoming a writer. And is coming of age so Something a little more adult and "Hello I'm better than a Bic, I do Trigonometry darn it!" but yet um, well, she IS still a teenager. I Do expect her to be Slightly heavy handed so a first pen should have a sturdy nib. Then there is Jealous Teens that May Steal such a cool thing so I don't want to spent too much and would maybe want to get 2 or maybe 1 that she could change the nib. Oh and Luckily she is Not a Lefty so no special treatment. ANY suggestions. again I don't want to spend too much but I also don't want a trow away I want her to have something she will want to hold on to for years even if she don't take to fountain pens(though why wouldn't she, if has any cooth). I am just learning about pens myself but I'm all about bling. And I don't Know a teenager alive that would look at lamy or varsity or the pilot junior pen and think that's pretty or that's cool. Maybe cool its a fountain but it does not have a grown up look to it.

 

Thank you Maddy and John!

 

Right now I teach in 3rd grade, primary school. I might ink up my pens for the students, but i think 3rd graders might be too young, lets see in the near future.

Here is a picture of the whole set of pens.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1362864341__8540497813_6751ca3d05_z.jpg

Did you have the same thoughts about left/right handed in the US back in pre 1960s? In Finland every lefthanded student was forced to write and use the right hand for all schoolwork ( In a way i understand.. we leftys tend to drag our hand in the ink but modern ink work for me.)

great to hear that you used good writingtools in your classes John!

Maddy, I will ink a pen or two up and give you a writing sample.

These pens are also cartridge pens, I've used similar and they seem to be quite alright!

Cheers, Mika

 

Mika,

 

Here too, lefties were often forced to become righties in the 60s. In the part of the US where I grew up, vestiges of the idea were still hanging around as late as 79-80; if I remember correctly we had to write with pencils the first two years of school, and the party line was that left handed writing could cause these to smudge. By that late date, efforts at conversion were pretty half-hearted though.

[welch]

Thank you Maddy and John!

 

Right now I teach in 3rd grade, primary school. I might ink up my pens for the students, but i think 3rd graders might be too young, lets see in the near future.

Here is a picture of the whole set of pens.

http://www.fountainp...751ca3d05_z.jpg

Did you have the same thoughts about left/right handed in the US back in pre 1960s? In Finland every lefthanded student was forced to write and use the right hand for all schoolwork ( In a way i understand.. we leftys tend to drag our hand in the ink but modern ink work for me.)

great to hear that you used good writingtools in your classes John!

Maddy, I will ink a pen or two up and give you a writing sample.

These pens are also cartridge pens, I've used similar and they seem to be quite alright!

Cheers, Mika

 

My Dad graduated high school in 1940; would have started grade school around 1927. He is left-handed, but was forced to write right-handed. Very bad. When I was little, he would hold his fork in his left hand, but throw a baseball with his right.

 

I went to school with left-handed "over-writers". Must have been torture. I think they continued "over-writing" as we got into high school and more people used ballpoints.

 

Come to think of it: watch President Obama: he's a lefty, and, an over-writer (I think).

 

 

[jkbd52]

That's a really neat thanks for sharing. I had no idea something like this existed. I would have loved using fountain pens in school.

[Inkysloth]

I was sent to Special Needs handwriting lessons when I was 11 because my penmanship was... mostly illegible unless I wrote veeeeeeery slooooooowly.

 

This was in 1994, and in those classes we had to use fountain pens, but they were these horrible plasticky blue things that had very long thin barrels. I found them near-impossible to get used to, and those combines with the cursive we were being taught totally put me off.

 

I was very dyspraxic, and everyone else in the class was similar or had other learning difficulties. To my mind, a more individualised method should have been taught - and not with FPs! Even just changing the cartridge was beyond my co-ordination then!

 

It wasn't til I was about 14 and had a Vector - and improved motor skills - that I started to enjoy writing again.