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Greetings from Cape Town (South Africa)

 

I finally decided to sign up a few days ago, after reading reviews, etc. on FPN for many years.

 

My love affair with fountain pens started in 1972 in high school, when all students were "forced" to write with fountain pens. The first fountain pen I bought with my hard earned pennies, was a "Tropen Scholar" (Tropen as in "Trolitan" - a new type of plastic developed in the 60's or thereabouts). Manufactured in Germany; brilliant piston filling mechanism; highly flexible brass nib - which makes the most beautiful sound on paper. I used it daily from 1972 to 1976. Wrote all my exams with it (only failed Maths - sob!); wrote every essay with it (in Afrikaans, my home language, and English) and excelled in Geography and Physiology, when than nib just "sang" on paper.

 

After finishing high school, the pen disappeared from sight. I found it in 1997, in a tool box in the garage at my mother's house. The cap had a crack in it; the gold plating was now just silver cheap metal, but it filled first time and wrote like it did in 1976! So - it's the cheapest pen in my collection (of +/- 80 pens) - but the most important of them all.

 

From 1987 to present I've been collecting limited edition fountain pens. I have a few very special ones in my collection, such as the A.C. Vecchietti, from Bologna, Italy - nr 45/80.

 

I rotate my pens and ink colour daily and enjoy writing for an hour, during lunch time.

 

Apart from a modest pen collection, I have managed over the years to build up a very good collection of pen books.

 

Lastly, thanks to the presence of (and limited access to) two Victorian era rubbish dumps near Cape Town, I excavated a small, but beautiful, collection of glass hand-blown ink bottles, dating to the 1800's.

 

Regards

 

Heinrich

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To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a [fountain] pen - that is true happiness!


- Winston Churchill



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Welcome !

 

Injection-molded plastic fountain pens of 1960's Germany ! I have a couple, without name. Where would I find the name, if any ? They were inexpensive, everyday, piston-fill pens. We would call them "school pens". The clip resembles a Pelikan clip. Both of mine write beautifully.

 

Compared to the majority here, the pens in you collection are unusual brands. I hope you will share more photographs.

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Welcome !

 

Injection-molded plastic fountain pens of 1960's Germany ! I have a couple, without name. Where would I find the name, if any ? They were inexpensive, everyday, piston-fill pens. We would call them "school pens". The clip resembles a Pelikan clip. Both of mine write beautifully.

 

Compared to the majority here, the pens in you collection are unusual brands. I hope you will share more photographs.

Sasha - thank you for the warm welcome. I forgot to mention that the A.C. Vecchietti limited edition was manufactured by Omas for the AC Vechietti company in Bologna, Italy (read more on: http://www.vecchietti.it/en/content/4-about-us ). Umberto Vecchietti's first pens were called "Nettuno". Other pics to follow. Regards.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a [fountain] pen - that is true happiness!


- Winston Churchill



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Hello and welcome to the Fountain Pen Network. Glad you have joined us. You have made us better just by joining us, This is now your place as much as it is ours. Please don't be shy. Ask all the questions you have and don't hesitate to state your opinions. I hope you enjoy your time here.

-David (Estie).

 

Thank you for the warm welcome David. A friend recently gave me a beautiful Sheaffer fountain pen (gold cap; blue barrel) - I think from about 1970's/80's - unfortunately not in working condition. Any idea who will be able to service or repair it? Regards.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a [fountain] pen - that is true happiness!


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