Fp Article In The Spectator

[mberman14]

<http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9479982/the-return-of-the-fountain-pen/>

[Tasmith]

Thanks for sharing.

[rwilsonedn]

Hmm ... we have a couple of Lamy pens, and we have a VW Golf. I believe he deeply slanders the Golf.

ron

[EricTheRed]

Excellent article. Thanks Mberman14!

[basterma]

Thanks for sharing.

[Frank C]

Thank you for sharing. Always good to read about someone's Parker 51 getting a new lease on life.

[Jamesbeat]

That's pretty cool that he signed copies of the biography with the pen that belonged to the biographee (is that a word?).

 

Even cooler that the pen is a "51".

Someone should let him know that he can have that leaky pen fixed for very little money.

[Bookman]

Thanks for the link. I've passed it along to a handful of others, including a couple of not-yet-FP people. Good article.

[Beechwood]

Good article, thanks for posting.

[Buzz_130]

Nice article and well worth the time to read! Thank you for sharing.

 

Buzz

[gweimer1]

Nice article, and a fun read. I got a chuckle out of this:

"Times have changed since my school days, when most boys had Platignums, but I favoured an Osmiroid 75, a model which I am faintly appalled to see is now described by eBay sellers as ‘vintage’."

[bogiesan]

Hmm ... we have a couple of Lamy pens, and we have a VW Golf. I believe he deeply slanders the Golf.

ron

In America, that would make the Lamys chick pens.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for posting the link. Interesting article.

I think the John Lewis store maybe got mentioned in a book I read awhile back: The Missing Ink by Philip Hensher, in the chapter where the author went searching for a replacement pen with a more "exotic" nib than what he had on his other pen, which IIRC was a Lamy (I particularly liked where in one of the stores -- he also checked the pen counters at Harrods and at some high-end department store -- and was showed some Montblancs and the price quoted to him was described as "(white noise)"....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

In America, that would make the Lamys chick pens.

Um. I do NOT resemble that remark. I keep waffling over whether or not to get a pink Safari (admittedly a girly color) but then something better always comes along -- something that doesn't have that triangular nib.

A 51 Demi Plummer. That's MY definition of a "chick pen", than you VERY much. Or the Cedar Blue 51 Vac that I sumgai'd last fall....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Dronak]

Thanks for the link. I thought it was a nice article, but -- and maybe this is just me -- I was hoping for a bit more evidence of the "return" and more about why FPs are gaining in popularity.