This is my writing test with my "new" No Nonsense pen that I won on ebay and just recieved in the mail today!! The ink is purple..... Normally I am very heavy handed when I write with a BP, but with a FP I seem to use way less pressure.....now I know why I loved writing with it......it was, for me, effortless!!!

This was paper in a pad that was handy. The paper seemed a bit thin and slick, something I hadn't noticed when I used BP on it.




Then I used some cardstock paper I had (from scrapbooking!) and it was quite porous compared to the other paper I used.



My sister won an auction for a lot of 4 No Nonsense pens and she's giving me three of them.....hopefully I'll get them when I go visit her on Saturday!!!


Sherry

Hi Sherry,

I've been following your No Nonsense posts. Looks like the one you won on eBay is the "good" kind--the old style. And here, it looks like you're having a lot of fun with it. I have 10 NN's, in fact somewhere here in FPN I posted a picture of them. They are really good, reliable pens to have. I tend to match my ink color to my pen, so if I need an "extra" of a certain color, or want to test a color, I usually have a No Nonsense available in the color I need. Glad you won one!

Best, Ann

Hi Ann!

I'm glad to hear from another NN fan!! It is really the only FP I've ever used but since joining this forum I am interested in trying others as well.

I too would like to have enough NN's to have one for each color I like to write with! I'll have to keep searching around on ebay!

Happy writing,
Sherry

Congratulations! You've found a treasure, indeed! Vintage NN's are excellent. We used them regularly at school (back in the 50's), since available bp's weren't reliable yet. Almost every kid in school had one.

About ten or so years ago, Pharmaceutical companies used to give us physicians NN's, with imprinted logos, as commercial gimmicks. I still have, and occasionally use, mine. They don't say much, aesthetically, but its the way they write which makes them so good.

A word of caution: if you've been bitten by the Fountain Pen Bug, there's no vaccine against it (Thank God!)

Did Sheaffer make No Nonsense fountain pens in the 1950s ?

Hi Sherry,

I'm looking for a vintage NN, with an italic nib and preferrably in black. Could you spare me a lead if you come across one . I have been monitoring e bay recently with very little success. Do they even come with italic nibs? And BTW, is there a differece between italic and oblique?

Regards

I've been told that the NoNonsense was introduced in 1969.

Hi Dan,

Yes, there is a difference between an oblique and an italic. The latter is a square cut, perpendicular to the slit, and the oblique cut is slanted. Normally, with an oblique cut people mean a left footed or left oblique, with a cut slanted to the left, looking from the top. IOW, the cut looks similar to the line your toes make on your left foot. There is also a right footed oblique, and I guess the name speaks for itself.

An oblique requires you to turn the pen a little, to the left for a left oblique, and as a result, a left footed oblique is supposed to make life a little easier for left handed underwriters: it allows lefties to drag a pen over the paper, like righties do with a normal cut nib, rather than push it along.

An oblique cut doesn't have to be italic either, but often is.

HTH, warm regards, Wim

Thanks Wim,

I am on the look out for an italic or oblique FP, with which nib do you find it is easier to write with and also achieve some "personality".

Regards



Daniel