Birth Pens: What Is The Fp Of The Year Of Your Birth?

[cobalt]

What pen would have been first made/introduced in the year you were born, just like you? It was/is? the custom to give a pen or a watch when someone turned 21)

 

Do you own your birth pen?

 

Do you give a birth pen as a gift to new borns for their future possible use or bemusement?

 

Here's a starter for 10 of a few pens (year of first manufacture: brand/name)

 

(anyone who predates the Duofold deserves to be given their birth pen as a gift!)

 

1903: Conklin Crescent Filler

1905: Parker Lucky Curve; Waterman 52

1910: Onoto Black Ebonite

1913: Waterman 414

1914: Sheaffer 34

1921: Parker Duofold

1925: Dunhill Giant

1929: Pelikan 100

1930: Sheaffer Balance

1931: Gold Starry Rapex

1932: Parker Vacumatic

1939: Montblanc 139G

1940: Wahl Eversharp Skyline

1941: Parker 51

1950: Conway Stewart 58

1954: Parker Jotter

1956: Parker 61

1966: Lamy 2000

1980: Lamy Safari

1986: Parker Vector

1991: Lamy Persona

1993: Waterman Edson

1996: Omas 360

 

[jar]

I own several pens that were made during the year of my birth but none were the first year that model had been made.

[Chrissy]

It may be that there was no pen introduced during the year of my birth

[inkstainedruth]

It may be that there was no pen introduced during the year of my birth

Ditto. I missed the introduction of Parker 45s (1960) by a few months. Not saying which direction, mind....

Of course that leads to the next weird thought -- in the future, will someone brag about being born the same year as the Noodler's Ebonite Konrads? Or the "new" Esterbrooks?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Ernst Bitterman]

Lamy 2000 and Sheaffer Stylist. Sublime and ridiculous.

 

Ruth-- PFM in one direction (as well as the Conway-Stewart 106), Imperial in the other. That's not too shabby, whichever way you lean.

[birchtine]

I have only one, Pilot Deluxe from September 1977, which is only several months older than me. Pretty good match and a lovely pen to write with.

[inkstainedruth]

Lamy 2000 and Sheaffer Stylist. Sublime and ridiculous.

 

Ruth-- PFM in one direction (as well as the Conway-Stewart 106), Imperial in the other. That's not too shabby, whichever way you lean.

Thanks. Not familiar with the C-S. I tried holding a PFM at a pen show, and thought it was a little too heavy for me (I have three regular Snorkels, 2 Valiants and a Statesman, and like them well enough -- but they are a little slimmer than some pens I own).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Larry Barrieau]

1948. Parker 51 Aerometric 1st year, Parker 51 Vacumatic last year.

[Pickwick]

According to pensninks blog spot The Montblanc 139G was introduced c1938. If that's the case then it dates me!

[dogpoet]

Nothing I can find for the year I was born, just specific models of existing pens.

Now if you were after calculators or guitars, I'd be sorted...

[aalmcc4]

1966. Lamy 2000. And it happens to be one of my favorites, if not my favorite fountain pens.

[Ernst Bitterman]

Nothing I can find for the year I was born, just specific models of existing pens.

Now if you were after calculators or guitars, I'd be sorted...

 

The historical galleries here might help, but there's gaps.

[Manalto]

Sheaffer Snorkel

Edited September 16, 2015 by Manalto

[carlos.q]

This excellent chronology may also help:

 

http://www.fountainpen.it/Chronology

[tragique]

Cross Century II seems to be the only non-limited edition pen to have been released on my birth year.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

After browsing a number of pen sites, I'm not sure that my birth year was a particularly auspicious one for fountain pens. Parker introduced tungsten carbide balls for their ballpoints, a great improvement in durability. Esterbrook came out with a cartridge fountain pen, the Safari, a harbinger of the end, and not something I really want to add to my sizable selection of Esterbrooks.

 

When it comes to vintage pens, I rather like the idea of ones that were made before I was born. I have a few which were, or most likely were, made before my parents were born.

[Ernst Bitterman]

After browsing a number of pen sites, I'm not sure that my birth year was a particularly auspicious one for fountain pens. Parker introduced tungsten carbide balls for their ballpoints, a great improvement in durability. Esterbrook came out with a cartridge fountain pen, the Safari, a harbinger of the end, and not something I really want to add to my sizable selection of Esterbrooks.

 

When it comes to vintage pens, I rather like the idea of ones that were made before I was born. I have a few which were, or most likely were, made before my parents were born.

 

Hey, the Safari also came in a pnuematic-fill model, one of the most reliable mechanisms of that type ever (which is a good thing, because the plunger CANNOT be taken apart for repair).

[wastelanded]

A pointed stick.

[PaperDarts]

Looks as though I should be seeking a Montblanc from the 340 series (1951). Oddly enough, one of those is already on my wish list.

[FOUR X FOUR]

2 pens were popular when I was born. The most popular was the Parker Paleo. The other was the

Cro magnon mini