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Is Obama Signing The Immigration Decree With A Sheaffer Fp?


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Look at these pics. Do you think the pen Obama is holding in his hand can be a Sheaffer with a triumph nib?

 

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What are the chances of Obama holding the pen "so precisely" for the camera that only the triumph point is visible on the full ? I'd say it's a RB. dunno the brand though. :unsure:

 

*also no other pen in the tray is a FP, if my eyesight is correct (& they are pretty bad..).

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Cross Townsend Rollerball.

 

Edit: too wide for a Century

 

 

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Wonder why he uses a RB instead of a fountain pen.

These pens are given away as presents. That's why there is a whole box waiting. The one in his hand even still has the label on the clip. He has to sign several times, each one with a different pen. They then go to the people who have been important for this specific law or decree as a memento.

These days RBs are more wanted as presents then FPs (alas)

 

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Wonder why he uses a RB instead of a fountain pen.

 

Cause he's a lefty and he doesn't want to smear the ink all over the bill he's signing.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl-and of course I mean lefty as in left handed...

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Check this out . . . Obama & His Pens

 

watched! Cross rollerball pens! :o how could I be so naïve? :D (though the video is from the health reform bill signing)

 

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President Obama uses Cross ballpoints or Cross rollerball pens to sign official documents. As D.ick said, he signs multiple copies of the bills with a pen, using each pen once, and then those pens are gifted to various people. I have a Cross Townsend ballpoint that I got from Senator Carl Levine's Office ( he is our senior Senator from Michigan), that was used to sign a piece of Legislation that related to the preservation Lighthouses located on Federal land in Michigan. Too bad I dont own a digicam or a smartphone to be able to attach a photograph of the pen. It is a normal black Cross Townsend BP, with the signature of Pres Obama engraved on the cap.

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Even if Cross owns Sheaffer, I doubt they'd think it was good PR for the President to use another brand name for bill signing.

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Cross Townsend Rollerball.

 

Edit: too wide for a Century

 

 

D.ick

the ring at the end of the section seems too thick for it to be a townsend. IMHO.

 

look how the pens are placed...open with cap on the end, so that he can sign quickly. I suppose if the fountain pens are left like that they might get dry.

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The weird thing is his signing his name with 22 pens just once (in the video). Not even a single letter per pen.

No, he is signing his name 22 times, each with a different pen.

 

 

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No, he is signing his name 22 times, each with a different pen.

 

 

D.ick

:D I can only imagine if he had to do so 80+ times if that many people contributed to the bill. As I understand it they give the pens to the various participants (some of the lawmakers must have so many Cross RBs by now).

 

When's the last time the white house ever used fountain pens for commemorations?

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No, he is signing his name 22 times, each with a different pen.

 

 

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No, only one bill, he only signs it once. At the very end of the video you can see his signature - it's most readily apparent in the O that he has used multiple pens just to make the O. You can also see him making the shortest of gestures while doing the actual signing - he is clearly not writing his full name at a single go. Edited by Kataphract
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No, only one bill, he only signs it once. At the very end of the video you can see his signature - it's most readily apparent in the O that he has used multiple pens just to make the O. You can also see him making the shortest of gestures while doing the actual signing - he is clearly not writing his full name at a single go.

... and the whole point of that is just so that every pen he gives is "A pen" that signed the bill?

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:D I can only imagine if he had to do so 80+ times if that many people contributed to the bill. As I understand it they give the pens to the various participants (some of the lawmakers must have so many Cross RBs by now).

 

When's the last time the white house ever used fountain pens for commemorations?

 

 

Clinton signing. Some kind of Parker BP? (About the 6 min point)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SALE-BILL-CLINTON-GENUINE-PRESIDENTIAL-SEAL-PRESIDENT-THE-WHITE-HOUSE-PEN-/111509156857

 

 

George Bush Cross Select tip

 

http://www.kamakurapen.com/Presidents/George_W_Bush_Pens.html

 

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