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

[DanF]

A clear plastic Schaeffer school pen many many years ago. I have no idea what became of it.

 

Dan

[acolythe]

Like so many others, mine was a Sheaffer cartridge pen. Green translucent plastic with cigar shape . It was required for a school in 1963. I replaced it in 67 with a parker45 which I still have. Two years ago I got a later version of the Sheaffer school pen with a flat top NOS. Still looking for the cigar shaped original

[lovemy51]

Cross Solo and still have it. lovely pen!

[Occipital Lobe]

Don´t recollect what brands they were, but I inherited 3 fountain pens in `84.

At least one of them were pretty old and battered at that time. so I never got it in working condition. I used it as a dip pen with a bottle of Parker quink (blue), but eventually lost interest in FP´s and threw them all out.

I later - much later regained interest in pens and handwriting, so I´ve started over again, and would love to have those pens today.

 

Morale.... Don´t EVER let a heirloom pass on to anobody who doesn´t fully appreciate what they value.

[msolok]

A Lamy Al Star in Ocean Blue. Got it in 2009 or 2010 when out shopping with my GF (she got it for me as a present). I saw it in a display case at Kikki-k and loved the look of it. Got a leather A5 journal holder with it as well as a Converter and Lamy Black ink.

 

And then it sat in it's box for years. Was always too good to just use it. Then July last year i started a new job and i figured it was time. As soon as I started using it it was pure bliss. Been hooked for the past year. Very quickly my collect grew, now containing 5 Lamy Safari's/AL Stars, 2 Lamy Studios (1 steel nib, 1 gold nib), 1 Lamy 2000, 10 Noodlers Konrads/Ahabs, 5 Kaweco Sports, 2 Kaweco AL sports, 4 Sailors, and 3 TWSBI'S. Not to mention the large quantities of ink (Noodlers, J Herbin, Diamine, Montblanc and Pelikan Edelstein) and the paper and journals.

[shardbearer]

My first was bought just a couple of months ago, a Lamy Safari in charcoal with a medium nib. Still have it of course.

[PhatMan]

Hello to All,

 

The first fountain pens I had were two (2) Parker 51s I was allowed to have out of my parents junk box (what Philistines ) in 1970.

 

Both were medium nibbed; one was burgundy, the other green (or was it teal?).

 

I used them until the early 1990s when my first first wife had away with them when we got divorced

 

Have fun !

 

Best regards

 

Russ

[dickydotcom]

Parker Duofold and a P51 given to me by my father in law in 1975

The P51 is in my pen case and the Duofold is currently inked in my case ready for work.

Both have been serviced in the intervening years.

The Duofold has a stub nib and is one of my favourite writers.

 

Dick D

[Mesu]

A local ED pen with no name and a hooded nib. It was the only pen i used throughout school. Worked great for 7 years before the barrel broke.

[beejay]

In my young school days, we were taught to write with dip pens at the age of ten and before we passed into Prep school (a term spent getting ready for the big school) we were told by our teacher that our parents would need to buy us a fountain pen, and that it had to be an Osmiroid 65.

No other FP was permitted during our first year in the big school but afterwards we could use any brand.

So, my first FP was an Osmiroid 65.

beejay

[fmon56]

Was in my very early 20's in the late 70' and was saving my money for a while. Once I had enough I bought a pen that I thought was the epitome of what a fountain pen should look like. It was a MB No.149 and I still have it to this day. If the time comes to and I decide to disperse my collection that 149 will be the last to go.

[olivier78860]

As every small school kid in the late 70s, I was given a Reynolds schoolpen. It disappeared many years ago.

My first serious fountain pen was a Waterman Executive, given by my father, when I turned 14 or 15. I still have it, but the lacquer really suffered from being carried within my schoolbag.

[RitchieMac]

Pilot Birdie during my school days. The most luxurious I can afford with my own pocket money at that time. I tried fountain pen because it is said that fountain pen helps to improve handwriting. Since then, I realised that fountain pen alone does not improve handwriting.

After a long hiatus, I've got back into using fountain pen. Brought out my Pilot Birdie again and inked it - worked brilliantly once again. I've since replaced its Con-20 converter. However, I later put it back into storage as I now prefer bigger pens. Almost any other fountain pen is bigger than the Pilot Birdie.

[ravantra]

I college everyone was buying Mont Blanc pens with fine liners for sketching. I bought one but later saw a FP at the store. It was a Waterman Exclusive with M nib. This was in 1983 or so. Did not enjoy the pen too much since I have big hands and this is a very skinny pen. Later I got a pen that fit my hands, a Waterman L Etalon.

[attika89]

It wasn't too long ago... at the end of 2010 I've bought this Safari. It was just laying around for a while, but after I fiddled around with the nib, it is back in business.

http://www.kephost.com/images4/2013/6/16/a1_2013_6_16_4ks5cjg5pe.jpg

[Toll]

My first fountain pen was a Cross Townsend. It was a Christmas gift from my mother-in-law around 1994. I sold it (or traded it) many years ago -- I never really enjoyed the balance or the nib. My next pen was a Waterman Phileas and that was a pen that provided real enjoyment.

[The Blue Knight]

It wasn't too long ago... at the end of 2010 I've bought this Safari. It was just laying around for a while, but after I fiddled around with the nib, it is back in business.

http://www.kephost.com/images4/2013/6/16/a1_2013_6_16_4ks5cjg5pe.jpg

Nice! Been a Parker rotring fan for a long time and brought my first

[The Blue Knight]

It wasn't too long ago... at the end of 2010 I've bought this Safari. It was just laying around for a while, but after I fiddled around with the nib, it is back in business.

http://www.kephost.com/images4/2013/6/16/a1_2013_6_16_4ks5cjg5pe.jpg

Nice! Been a Parker rotring fan for a long time and brought my first

[penrivers]

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

You can save the nib too, just try, with your fingertips.

[penrivers]

A Waterman Phileas in marbled blue that I settled on after looking through all the pens at Paradise pen one day, about fifteen years ago. I used it throughout high school for journal-writing. A couple of months ago I found it in my mother's desk drawer; it was like finding a long lost friend. It still works rather well, but part of the nib has started to rust...back then I didn't know pens were supposed to be flushed out. That's probably what got me started back on fp's, after a long hiatus punctuated only by some Lamy Safaris about 8 yrs ago; that and getting bored with rollerballs.

Soak that rusti Phileas in water with ammonia for a night, it will clean the oxidation

Edited June 16, 2013 by penrivers