What Was The First Fountain Pen You've Used?

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Pilot Varsity, back in April of this year or so.

[ac12]

Sheaffer School pen. In fact they write so well that I've picked up a bunch of them and now have them in my pen rotation.

Edited December 17, 2015 by ac12

[jlynmriep]

Six years ago, when I was living in Germany, I bought this pen at Marktkauf (think German Walmart). It's a no-name pen, cost about 10 euros I think, but really nice - metal, well-balanced, and some of the smoothest-writing pens I own, to this day (including gold nibs!). I bought it because I noticed that fountain pens were relatively commonplace there, but being young and American, I'd never tried one. http://s2.postimg.org/qc7rdzk0p/IMG_0659.jpg

 

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[PS104]

I seem to recall that at the beginning of each school year (mid fifties) I would go to Woolworth's and buy an Esterbrook. At the end of the school year I'd forget about it. No thought of flushing and cleaning. Who knew?

The last year (eigth grade) I got a gray Sheaffer Snorkel. All since long gone.

Now I'm trying to buy back my youth.

[aderoy]

Cross Townsend Titanium gift for years of service at work from a co-worker (who enjoyed using fountain pens), over 25 years ago. The one that started it all.

[twigletzone]

The one I remember most was actually the Parker Jotter ball pen I had... at my school we used to be given rough books that were made out of thick, cushiony, absorbent paper, and the Parker had a lovely wide ball which just floated on it. I used to sit doodling little designs for hours, just letting the pen go where it wanted to.

 

My favourite fountain pen.. well, the one I customised with glitter paper stuck around for a good long while, even though it was only a butterfly nib thing from WHSmith, but the one I will always remember is my beautiful translucent red Sheaffer No Nonsense. It was such a lovely union of form and function, until some toerag decided to steal it I *will* get another one, some day, I will...

[visvamitra]

Some Parker in early school years. First FP I've used and I remember well was Waterman Hemisphere.

[marcelo]

My Waterman Carene.

 

Five years ago.

Edited December 20, 2015 by marcelo

[catbert]

Pretty sure it was a Sheaffer Imperial II Deluxe at primary school. Lost or broken long ago. Finding another led here, and to many more pens.

[Pens Woods]

Sheaffer Prelude, red marbled, fine steel nib. A beautiful smooth writer that laid down a 0.4mm line. The cap wouldn't stay on as it was a push on pen, so I retired it last year.

[vedearduff]

My first fountain pen was the one I used for my second grade penmanship class. It was a Sheaffer school pen, green translucent body and an M nib. I have no idea what happened to that pen, but I was able to find an NOS twin on eBay. I've posted about it on this forum before, but here is a photo of the pen and the display card it was encased in when I receive it. The carts in the package are dried out and will remain in the package as you see them here. The carts are sill available and the pen could be used as an eyedropper.

 

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/vedearduff/Fountain%20Pen%20Network%20Postings/ShaefferSchoolPenwithCardWEB_zps5c36624e.jpg

Edited December 20, 2015 by vedearduff

[ink-syringe]

Had to have been a Sheaffer School pen.

 

First pen I remember buying myself other than the Sheaffer school pens was the Parker 25.

[Hedgepig]

At my junior school, we all wrote in pencil until that magic day when, at around 7 or 8 years of age, the headmaster deemed our handwriting (Marion Richardson cursive) to be of a sufficiently high standard. At that point we were instructed to go and purchase a fountain pen. Not just any pen though. It had to be a Platignum, converter fill, medium nib. I suspect the headmaster got a kick-back from the makers.

 

I got mine from the post office. It was purple.

[Recoil Rob]

In 1963 I was in 3rd grade at Annunciation Grammer School, Yonkers, NY, run by the Dominican nuns. We were required to purchase a Sheaffer Student cartridge pen. Mine was clear blue with steel cap. Ballpoints not allowed!

[marcelo]

My Waterman Carene.

 

Five years ago.

 

Here it is:

 

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[trun4rth]

A neonlime Safari - which definitely dates my fountain pen experience. BUT this great little pen has started a terrible hobby

[FOUR X FOUR]

Actually, the pen I posted way back there was not the first one I used but rather the first one that was mine.

 

My family had an insurance office and so when I got to go to work with dad I got my own desk to work at, a big blotter and a rocker blotter and two desk pens, one with red ink and one with green ink. I could fill out forms, draw pictures and my dad always gave me an "accounts" page that I had to check for errors.

You were quite the little business man

[FOUR X FOUR]

My first pen was a cross Bailey. M nib.

[blINK]

My interest was generated in the late 80s by a pen called the Fountain Pentel (still available, but called the PulaMan). It wasn't a real fountain pen, but a disposable with a hybrid felt nib.

 

This led me to purchase a blue Parker Vector and the rest is history. Still love the Vector and have accumulated 4 over the years. Truly an underrated pen, in my opinion.

[J_MM]

Outside of the dip pen used in highschool art class it would be the Lamy Safari EF.