Giving Thanks To Your First Pen

[womyn]

My first FP (in 1956) has been this Pelikan (CN nib)

It works as a new one (should work)

 

[Pelikan Vera]

Congratulations. One of my favourite pens.

[Centopar]

I was seven, it was 1982, and the pen was fat and orange and very clearly designed for kids. (It may not have been *that* fat - my hands were a little smaller then than they are now).

 

I don't remember what make it was, but I *do* remember that it made me feel childish and so I rather despised it. I desperately wanted a Parker Vector: those were grown up pens. (Which is to say, they were the pens you were allowed to use from the age of 9 or so.)

[51ISH]

Parker 25

 

Still have 3 of them in a box....

 

I notice they are going for about £40 each...

 

One day, I'll clean them up, and sell them, disliked them then....

 

Hate them now

[The Blue Knight]

See my thread

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/247453-what-was-the-first-fountain-pen-you-owned-and-what-happened-to-it/

[Dr_P]

Oh my! That was centuries ago

 

Back in the 60s in Argentina children started to learn to write with a pencil (grade 1) and then "graduated" to mandatory fountain pens (grade 2 or 3 ?). No ball pens.

 

At that time, my father received a lot of gifts due to his job, mainly Parker pens. So an educated guess would say that my first fountain pen was a Parker 45, back in 1966 or 1967.

 

(OK guys, now you made me feel like Mathusalen)

[requiescat]

Mine was a Sheaffer that came from a friend of a friend who had heard I was curious about fountain pens (but I assumed, at the time, that they were out of my price range--turned out not to be true, but I didn't know that). The pen later developed a section crack, but it served me well for a year or two, and I was able to determine that I liked fountain pens even though it turned out to be unlike the kinds of pens I prefer now that I have more experience. (It was metal and heavy and medium-nibbed. I like plastic and light and XF or F nibs.)