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

[ethernautrix]

A Pelikan 120. I still have it (45 years)

 

 

 

 

Oh wow! Your photo just triggered the memory of my first fountain pen! It wasn't a Pilot Varsity or the Parker Vector. It was a Pelikan 120, just like yours. I don't know what happened to it. I was still in high school, and I really didn't understand fountain pens, and then Pentel came out with the Ceramicron, and that was my favorite for a few years until the model was discontinued.

 

Huh... a Pelikan 120 was my first fountain pen.

[Necarex]

My first fountain pen, a Lamy ABC, I owned was during my time on the primary school. I was around 6 or 7 years old. I can't remember what happened with the pen, but I'm sadly sure I don't have it anymore.

[Tanzanite]

My first fountain pen was a Parker 25 with F nib that I got for my birthday in my teens and I still have it and use it from time to time.

[WirsPlm]

A Sheaffer calligraphy set that I got more than decade ago during a brief fling with trying to learn calligraphy. I still have many of the carts, some nibs and a pen cap, but the pen bodies are lost to the mists of time (replacements sourced from eBay).

[Ink Sandwich]

A Lamy ABC:

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It was back in grade school, and everybody in my class had that pen I remember that my dad would almost fill it up for me. Funnily enough, I pretty much refused to write with fountain pens and used pencil all the time until third grade. I don't have it anymore, but just a couple of days ago I wondered if I should buy one again, just for old time's sake.

Edited January 11, 2014 by Ink Sandwich

[Apprenti]

A Noodler's Creaper (which I still use). Currently, it's my one and only fountain pen, but I've been very generously offered a very nice old liberty with a wonderful flex nib (which I'm currently saving for). I use my Noodler's for secondary school (at age 16) despite the fact I'd originally bought it for more creative endeavours (the pen doesn't flow at all with minimal flex so I just use it like an everyday writer). It's very nice for just writing, but it's really not what I wanted at all.

 

Looking forward to my first flex pen! Excited doesn't begin to cover it

[annwyl]

A Lamy Safari with a fine nib. It was given to me by a favorite university professor after I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2010. He used Safaris to grade our papers and exams, and thought (correctly) that a fountain pen might be easier on my poor hands when writing pages of notes for class. I still use it as my note-taking pen now that I've moved on to my Master's program.

Edited January 12, 2014 by annwyl

[siroast]

Due to the fact that my family was very strict about using a fountain pen, my parents bought me a caran d' ache ecridor fountain pen when I went to the elementary school (also obliged by school). I still have this pen but I never use it for emotional reasons.

[casualmerlinconstant]

hero 100 from dad when I was 11. used it till the last days of university entrance exams. I dropped it nib down and a chunk of tipping material broke off . it never wrote right again. but that drove me to search for a new FP. I totally meant to stop at one...

[maus930]

My first real pen was a Sheaffer PFM -- a graduation present over 50 yeas ago -- it is one of my favorite writers to this day and has a prominent place in my collection of over 500 fountain pens I confess I have one ballpoint--- a mate to my MB 149 -- couldn't break them up

[bluepelican]

Lamy Vista EF. I've had it for around two years and still use it every day.

[jkingrph]

Starting in the mid to later 1950's a few Esterbrooks through grammer, jr high and high school, and first couple of years of college. Then my father gave me a Schaeffer Imperial set, cartridge fill, which I still have. I have no idea what happened to those Esterbrook pens.

[impossiblebird]

It was a Parker 45 flighter in a boxed set with the matching ballpoint and propelling pencil, all lightly engraved with my name, and enclosed in a leather briefcase. These were a gift from my grandparents just before I started high school in 1972; my grandfather had cashed in all his Embassy cigarette coupons to get them. I remember my gran saying that the department-store engraver had complained no end about how awkward it was engraving the pens.

 

The upshot was that I never had any need of the Platignum school cartridge pen the school supplied, so it was relegated to penfight duties, and no doubt came to a sad end. I used the 45s all the way through high school and university, and I still have them, though mostly I use a broader pen. Either my eyesight is worse now, or the engraved names are worn, because I struggle to read them.

[loudkenny]

My very very first fountain pen?

 

A blue transparent Sheaffer cartridge pen I got in maybe seventh grade. After that, I lost interest for thirty years... until I was left a bunch of them.

 

What happened to it? One word - mother

 

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[tomkeb]

A Lamy Safari <EF>, 3 years ago. It wrote too broad for me, so I gave it to my father and he has been using it since.

[Steven]

My first fountain pen was an extra fine Sheaffer 304 that was given to me by my then girlfriend in the mid 70’s who preferred ballpoint pens. I remember how curiously nice it was to write with this pen and it had a small chip midway down the tine split. I still have this pen and do occasionally ink it up and this was the pen that got me started on my life long obsession. As for my girlfriend, well I ended up marrying her and have been hitched since 1977, and every time I get a new and more times than not, expensive fountain pen, I blame her for getting me addicted.

[BT-7274]

A Parker Vector that my parents had but didn't want to use anymore. Leaked like a sieve, it did, and was lost with time. I've since moved on to higher end Parkers (3 Parker 51's make up the mainstay of my EDC).

[Abner C. Kemp]

Parker Frontier Resin with a Medium nib.

 

I still use this pen frequently. It is one of the few medium/broad nibs I own and is pleasant to write with.

[ethernautrix]

I don't know what happened to that Pelikan 120, but I still have the Parker Vector (chrome) from nearly 30 years ago.

[gknep]

Waterman Phileas in marbled green. Got it new in the 90's and still have it.