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Hello fellow pen enthusiasts! I'm very new to fountain pens, but am having a great time researching and buying a few pens, both new and vintage. The Goulet Pen Company has been very helpful regarding the modern pens and ink I've bought, and the internet has been helpful as I learn about vintage pens.

 

To date, I have two Pilot Metropolitans and a glass dip pen in the modern category. In the vintage category, I have a Waterman's, an unbranded fountain pen/pencil combo, a dainty lady's dip pen, and an Esterbrook desk pen and base. The Waterman's and the pen/pencil combo pens will soon go for restoration of the filling mechanism. I really want these pens to be functional!

 

I'll be reading a lot of posts from everyone here to start my pen education. So, see you in the funny papers.

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Welcome home. Pull up a stump and have a couple of Barbara Jean's crab cakes.

 

And did Mack's BBQ really close?

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Welcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego.


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We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

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:W2FPN: St Simonds Island GA. rings a bell for me.

My Xuron fly tying vise came from that island. I don't know if they are still made.

 

Enjoy this forum, You'll learn a lot.

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Hello and welcome from Indiana!

Please visit my store A&D Penworx.

Brands we carry: Benu Pen, Conklin, Kaweco, Monteverde, TWSBI - Diamine, J Herbin, KWZ- Clairefontaine, Field Notes, Rhodia, Whitelines

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Greetings and welcome!

 

:W2FPN:

...The history, culture and sophistication; the rich, aesthetic beauty; the indulgent, ritualistic sensations of unscrewing the cap and filling from a bottle of ink; the ambient scratch of the ink-stained nib on fine paper; A noble instrument, descendant from a line of ever-refined tools, and the luster of writing,
with a charge from over several millennia of continuing the art of recording man's life.

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Hello and welcome to the Fountain Pen Network. Glad you have joined us. You, having joined us, make us better. 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.



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Hello and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

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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Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

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Welcome !

 

I graduated radar navigation school at NAS Glenco, 100 years ago. I spent lazy weekends on the beach of St. Simons Island. (Do the ghosts of Spanish soldiers still make noise in the Glenn Marsh ?)

 

I, too, have a couple of pen/pencil combos. I think they were a great idea, that did not catch on.

Some tell me that it was more prestigious to have two decorative pen caps showing in the pocket.

Is yours a lever fountain pen ?

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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