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

[ac12]

 

This is a riot! So was mine- did it have a chrome plated metal cap, too?

 

- Sean

 

Yup almost certain it had a chrome cap.

The barrel came in various transparent colors. I think I had a green one, and maybe another one but I don't remember the color. But that was way back in the 60s, a LONG time ago.

 

Also was it a M or F tip? I have no idea. Probably a M tip.

 

And I used Sheaffer's Peacock Blue ink, among other colors (royal blue, regular blue and black).

I'm trying to get a bottle of Sheaffer turquoise. I understand that the turquoise is very close to the old peacock blue.

Edited August 30, 2013 by ac12

[Buzz_130]

About a year ago, I purchased my first fountain pen, a Sami Safari in charcoal. After filling out customs forms in Honolulu while in the aircraft, I lost it. This was the best thing that happened to me as I began to research a new fountain pen, found FPN, and began a journey of worldwide pens, inks, and paper.

 

Buzz

[Gloucesterman]

My first was a early silver Parker 75 with an extra fine nib purchased around 1971 for $25.00.

 

As for where it is now... in my pen box on the shelf nearby.

 

Rarely used now. But hen again, maybe it's time to bring it back to more frequent use.

Edited August 31, 2013 by brgmarketing

[Sasha Royale]

It was a Sheaffer cartridge pen. $0.79 in the early 1960's. I had a plastic, zipped pencil pouch, that was inside my 3-ring notebook. I carried my pens and pencils in it. One day, I closed the notebood, without arranging things, and one of the metal rings crushed the pen. Got another one, which I carried in my back pocket instead. (Safer there.) Sat on it and crushed it.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Sasha Royale

[DRWWE]

My first fountain pen was a Waterman LeMan. I got it in 1994 around the time I finished medical school. I had a LeMan ballpoint before that and decided I needed a matching FP. It was too fancy for me to use during residency so I moved on to lesser pens. Whenever I used it after, that there was a lot of skipping and I stopped using it. I acquired other FPs since then and, since they wrote better, the LeMan just sat in a drawer. After discovering this site I started playing with the pen, cleaning, brass sheet, Mylar film, and now the pen writes smoothly and no longer skips. I'm using it at work today filled with 54th Massachusetts ink. Very classy pen. Sadly, the matching ballpoint was lost on a business trip in 1997.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w161/drwwe/Pens/DSC_0026-1.jpg

 

[ac12]

Sean

Here is a pix of the Sheaffer that I bought, that I "think" is the same as my first FP in grade school, back in the 60s.

Although I think the barrel on my old pen was transparent green. I might have had a clear one also.

So I was using a "demonstrator" before it became a popular model.

I don't plan to use it, just to keep it as a reminder of what I started with.

And coincidentally, the turquoise the barrel is similar to the peacock blue ink that I used at one point.

Edited September 3, 2013 by ac12

[InvisibleMan]

Mine was the first one I ever made. I still have it, but I don't think it'll ever see ink again - it just isn't very good . But, it got me into fountain pens. I couldn't believe how different from ball points and roller balls it was. I now have several production pens, want some others, and am beginning a custom pen collection from other pen makers. Fun times.

[AlexLeGrande]

Esterbrook J series, @ 1955. Required by the teacher at Hawthorne Avenue School, Newark New Jersey. Learned to write with a dip pen in an inkwell that sat in the hole in the top of our wooden desks. None of those new-fangled ballpoints were allowed. Today was the first day of school for my 8 year old third grade granddaughter. I took her to school this morning and noticed both a printed and a cursive alphabet posted above the chalkboard. I asked the teacher if they were teaching cursive writing this year, and she answered, "Yes." My granddaughter is excited to refine her cursive which she tries in emulation of her Papa (that's me!)

[andreamcantu]

Lamy Safari. Gave it to a friend that was interested to start writing with fountain pens.

[wspohn]

My first fountain pen was a Parker 45 - red with steel cap.

 

It is sitting about a metre away from me right now, although I rarely use it any more.

[Sailor Kenshin]

A Skrip pen (AKA Sheaffer 'school' pen) in the sixth grade, with chrome, flat-top cap and translucent yellow body and black ink. From a stationery store, in a blister pack. I don't know what became of it, but I do have two similar pens in red and green. Sturdy, reliable little writers.

[Blade Runner]

A Parker 51 aero. Stolen during school. But it led to fps as a hobby and to even more desirable pens.

Edited November 30, 2013 by Blade Runner

[Unky]

My first fountain pen was a Rotring Intial, Black/ rhodium accents which I got from Daly's pen shop. It currently resides in my pen chest with the rest of Rotring collection.

[YeOlCaptain]

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.

 

 

Thats tragic!

[YeOlCaptain]

The very first fountain pen I owned was a Pelikan Pelikano. I still use it. It is in just as good of a condition since when I got it ( a long long time ago).

[bernardo]

My first FP was a Sheaffer Imperial 727, like this one. My father gave it to me when I was 12, out of his several pen sets, because my 6th grade teacher asked us to write with FP and I didn't have one.

Unfortunately, it didn't survive the hard life a teenager gave it...

 

 

 

[Avalonia]

A Pelikan Pelikano Junior, maybe two years back. It's still part of my rotation, though the cap's cracked a little.

[jameswatts]

A Sheaffer Connaiseur (or however they spell it) that my former girl friend got for me for Christmas. That former girlfriend is now my wife and has been for the past 27 years. And I still have the pen.

[Water Ouzel]

Started with a Sheaffer cartridge pen in a blister pak in high school @ 1966, followed by a string of Esterbrook or Sheaffer cartridge pens into college.

Finally got a better-quality pen, a Sheaffer Targa, around 1979. Still have it, and last year after a decade or so of only keyboard/pencil/bp, cleaned it up, inked it and tried it.

 

My increasingly-arthritic fingers *like* it. Along with the (so far) roughly 30 fountain pens that have since followed me home.

 

And now I've got my wife to using some of her own now... Heh.

[fpenluver]

A copy of parker 51 was given to me when i was at primary school. Nib broken and unuseable. Bought another one (different type and forgot what it was) but did not like it. Switch to rapidograph at junior school. And lately fountain pen fever come back to me.