Hi Guys

I am new here - and glad to have joined the community. I have used FPs since school days (30++ yrs ago).Vintage pens became somewhat of a hobby when I inherited a couple of my gradads' old English Duofolds.I now have too many (according to my wife). My days off are invariably spent sniffing out a bargain in a junk shop. Sadly, not easy to come by.

My favourite users tend to be 1920's Flat Tops - Big Red's mainly. I have a couple of large Conway Stewart 770's which are magnificent & a large size Ford Patent - I'm looking for a magnum size in mottled hard rubber. I once owned a Turquoise Patrician which I foolishly swapped - the trade was fair, but it should have been a keeper.

Best modern all rounders I think are Pelikan 800's - my own modern user is Dunhill AD2000 Carbon Fibre.

Well - that's enough -

grace

Oxpen

Oxford.....one of my favourite cities in the world!

Welcome!

Casmi

Hi,

Welcome to the forums, the UK contingent is now growing quite rapidly.

You have come to the right (write???) if you want info on pens, funny how the English Duofolds start a lot of us off, they were my early purchases (along with a late Dinkie) because they were the pens I used at school too many years ago to remember.

Don't worry too much what your wife says, they all tend to think like that unless they are pen collectors themselves.

Andy

We may have to put a limit on the numbers from the UK I fear. They've infiltrated the Admin ranks - have set up a Dark Operation group associated with Murphy Towers, and just in gereral threaten the quiet existence we've been hoping to establish here in Virtualland.

Ah well, it's been nothing if not interesting.

Perhaps you should be getting a local club together, one member - Oxanian - of course lives there, and perhaps Jim (who lives near Swindon) might collect somewhere for a pint and a few lies about the latest pen treasures y'all have found. Better yet would be to organize a tour of the Murphy Towers in Dublin some day...

Welcome to the FPN Oxpen. Looking forward to seeing your posts...

Regards,

Gerry

At last, someone from my neck of the woods. I'm just over the border in Bucks.

I agree about the junk shops (the few that are left). They used to be a treasure trove. No more, alas!

Welcome to FPN, a bunch of fountain pen nuts.

Thankyou for the welcome

I have already posted for info on the CS forum & received outstanding info relating to mysteries in my
collection. This is the place I've been searching for for years.

grace

oxpen

Welcome from Western Canada, Oxpen.
Gerry, if you're worried about U.K. numbers increasing, invite them to a meeting at the National Research Council Black Hole Laboratory in Ontario. It's just across the river from Gatineau, Que., and nothing that goes there emerges.

Welcome to the Fountain Pen Network!


First off, it's quite apparent you've got impeccable taste!

The other outstanding pens in your quiver are impressive indeed (to say the very least).

Your knowledge of fountain pens will be most welcome here, to be sure.

Cheers!

-Clive

Welcome:
I think the Dunhill is an underrated pen. I have an AD2000 in sparkling blue resin with yellow gold trim. Best tip work I've ever seen and lays down a line like writing on buttered glass (Well, I don't really write on glass, but I THINK that what it feels like!) Anyway, welcome. I look forward to reading your posts.

Welcome to FPN. Sounds like you have a very nice collection. If you get a chance, post some photos of your more favorite or even your collection.

Cheers.

P.S. Are you going to make to the London Pen Show?

Or join the contingent of UK tourists over here?

Hello and welcome to FPN! Hope you enjoy the forum.

Welcome to FPN.