What Was The First Fountain Pen You Owned And What Happened To It?

[The Blue Knight]

What was the first fountain pen you owned and what happened to it?

 

My answer

My first proper fountain pen I got about 10 years ago in 2003 at the point in time when you move from a hand writing pen to a fountain pen It was a black Parker Reflex with a medium nib. I have very fond memories of this pen and from what i can remember it was very smooth and really comfortable.

 

I had it for about a year before I bent the nib. I carried on using it for a while until a crack developed in the cap stopped using it at that point. I still have it to this day In a box of stationary i once used.

 

Even though it was discontinued a good few years ago It's still available for a good price I think I'm going to have to buy one as It would be nice to relive that time again.

 

To me the Reflex was a really important pen as it showed me how a fountain pen was like no writing instrument and started my interest in in them.

Edited June 15, 2013 by top pen

[inotrym]

My very first fountain pen was a Parker Frontier chromaflair F nib (which writes more like a broad).

 

I had no idea how to use it, let alone maintain it. (I was 12 years old back in 2001 )

The rubber grip is now stained blue, the feed is clogged with stamp ink and the nib suffers a terrible baby bottom.

 

I don't use the pen anymore (because I can't), but I' m never gonna throw it away. I just love it!

[Moxoftritonytes]

My first proper fountain pen was a Pelikan M100 in white with a black m nib. It got stolen after a few days at school.

[The Blue Knight]

My very first fountain pen was a Parker Frontier chromaflair F nib (which writes more like a broad).

 

I had no idea how to use it, let alone maintain it. (I was 12 years old back in 2001 )

The rubber grip is now stained blue, the feed is clogged with stamp ink and the nib suffers a terrible baby bottom.

 

I don't use the pen anymore (because I can't), but I' m never gonna throw it away. I just love it!

 

 

I have that same problem with my Reflex pretty useless in the state that it is in but a pen that I've had for so long and as it was my first fp I could never throw it away.

[sharonspens]

I am not sure. It was either the cloisonné pen I bought in China during a study abroad trip in 1996, or a pair of Lamy Safaris from Levenger. The Chinese pen I still have; bought it, I'm sure, because it was pretty, not because I intended to write with it. I hadn't used it in a very long time, but finally pulled it out one day on a lark. Nice little writer, actually.

 

The Safaris were my fist real FPs; I had gotten interested in them for some long forgotten reason, and realized i could get an inexpensive one from Levenger and try it out. I had two; one was eventually lost and the other had a broken body and finally was tossed.

 

Sharon in Indiana

[Wheatflower]

My first fountain pen: an aquamarine Lamy Safari, M nib. It was a gift from a friend, and I liked to so much that I got myself a second one in a F nib. And then I got a charcoal Safari, and a 2000, and a couple of Al-Stars....And wow but that new black Al-Star looks sharp, doesn't it?

 

The first Safari is sitting in a pen cup to the right of the desk I am now sitting at. It's uninked at the moment, but it will rotate back in soon.

[Nashten]

Mine was a Waterman Hemisphere, which is now three years old.

 

I turn the nib so that the front of it faces away from me, and as such, I've written with it so much on that point that writing there has almost a stubbish feel. (And its an EF nib, and does occasionally actually give line variation here and there.)

 

Writing on that edge is just fantastic. Anywhere else sucks. The only caveat is the fact that it likes to spring and spit ink when there is a microgram more pressure than it likes, and only on curves.

 

I also took a knife and one day, wrapped the butt of the pen with cloth and put it into a large diameter drill, and used that knife with the drill, and carved in some circles along the grip because the glossy plastic was just toooooooo slippery for me to use.

 

Other than that, the pen is flawless and writes like a charm.

[Mactechbri]

I got a Pilot Varsity December 2012. Used it up, tried to refill it and bent the nib . I still have it.

Now I know how to refill the next one.

 

Bri

[mirosc]

My first pen came to me in first grade (now that's some decades ago) and was a blue Pelikan Pelikano. I still use it and write with it. I didn't flush it for at least 15 years, but never had any problems whatsoever. A perfect, reliable writer, sturdy, never fails me, feels good in the hand - just like another finger. And it went with me through my whole time at several schools up to university. Notes, journals, exams, love letters. All with a little blue Pelikano and Pelikan Royal Blue.

Now I have dozens of other famous and fabulous pens, some of them hundred times worth more than the Pelikano but still it's in my rotation and I would rather throw away any of the Nakayas and MBs and Sheaffers and Parkers (or whatever brand name I can think of) than that little Pelikano.

[Paul80]

Mine was in the late 60's and some sort of cheap school pen IIRC it was lever filled and probably Platignum or even Stephens but probably platignum.

 

Paul

[The Blue Knight]

My first pen came to me in first grade (now that's some decades ago) and was a blue Pelikan Pelikano. I still use it and write with it. I didn't flush it for at least 15 years, but never had any problems whatsoever. A perfect, reliable writer, sturdy, never fails me, feels good in the hand - just like another finger. And it went with me through my whole time at several schools up to university. Notes, journals, exams, love letters. All with a little blue Pelikano and Pelikan Royal Blue.

Now I have dozens of other famous and fabulous pens, some of them hundred times worth more than the Pelikano but still it's in my rotation and I would rather throw away any of the Nakayas and MBs and Sheaffers and Parkers (or whatever brand name I can think of) than that little Pelikano.

 

Wow that's a long time. I'm surprised you managed to hold onto the pen for that long. I think i'm going to have to order a reflex now. I know it's not the same as the old pen but it would be nice to re-live those days.

[PAKMAN]

Sheaffer School Pen in the 70's when I was in high school. Not sure what became of it but I found another one just like it and added it to my collection!

[Andrea_R]

Mine is an imitation of an Omas fountain pen, is still on the desk and ready to write

[jar]

IIRC it was a hand-me-down pen from my Grandfather, a standard Sheaffer Vacfil Balance.

 

http://www.fototime.com/58A8DB926C0C2A0/medium800.jpg

I still have it.

[Montblanc owner and lover]

a waterman hemisphere in 2000 when i was 6(entering school) still got it even if it is a little bit damaged

[enricof]

Aurora Auretta (like this, without the FIAT logo), sept. 1967, destroyed the nib after a couple weeks.

 

Got a second one, managed to swap it with two stupid ballpoints (yeah, I know...).

 

Got a third one, lasted me two school years.

[SnorriRafn]

First one was a Pilot Varsity that I have sinc refilled and scraped the gray finish off. It is matte clear now. Second one and first proper one was a Green Parker Frontier that I have converted to an eyedropper. No problems with it whatsoever, it writes noce and smooth and has a good flow as an eyedropper but is a bit dry with cartridges. After that I got a Lamy Vista and a black Safari in medium and fine, both are nice.

[Octo]

Original Sheaffer cartridge pen, sometimes now called school pen, when Sheaffer cartridge pens were a new idea. Still have it. Still use it.

 

Edited to add: Currently loaded with NOS Sheaffer Burgundy.

Edited June 15, 2013 by Octo

[GabrielleDuVent]

I believe it was a cheapie fountain pen from W H Smiths. It was... 16 years ago. It had a yellow cap, pink barrel, and green clip, and was cartridge only.

 

The pen, in the hand of a seven year old, served its purpose to teach her how to use a fountain pen. The nib turned into a flex about a year or so later, and was disposed of.

[apkayle]

My first pen was a Mabie Todd & Co. Rialto medium nib fountain pen. I still use it when I desire a smooth medium nib to deliver broad strokes.

 

My only two gripes with the pen are the stiff clip and the heavy cap.