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Hey all, I'm wondering if there are any fountain pen stores in the Charleston or Columbia, SC area? I was able to find a thread, but that was from 2008, so pretty dated. And I tried Google, but no luck!

Any information you can provide will be really helpful!

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Rosendust

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Your best bet in rural areas is going to be university bookstores. The pen selection will be narrow but they should let you try before you buy. The better (not eaten by Barnes and Noble) ones may do special orders on pen stuff they don’t regularly stock, tho that will depend on their distributor.

 

Old school stationers can work too, but mostly searching on stationery store gets you Hallmark stores. Hallmark HQ has a number of fountain pen addicts (no surprise given how many artists they have on staff) but the stores target the mall mass market so are iffy as anything but a source of paper. And the paper will have seasonal availability.

 

For rural read basically anywhere in the US that doesn’t have a regular pen show.

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Your best bet in rural areas is going to be university bookstores. The pen selection will be narrow but they should let you try before you buy. The better (not eaten by Barnes and Noble) ones may do special orders on pen stuff they don’t regularly stock, tho that will depend on their distributor.

 

Old school stationers can work too, but mostly searching on stationery store gets you Hallmark stores. Hallmark HQ has a number of fountain pen addicts (no surprise given how many artists they have on staff) but the stores target the mall mass market so are iffy as anything but a source of paper. And the paper will have seasonal availability.

 

For rural read basically anywhere in the US that doesn’t have a regular pen show.

Thank you so much, I didn't realize that University Bookstores could have Fountain Pens! I know my college's bookstore offers Clairfontaine paper (but they are owned by B&N, but the store manger likes Fountain pens), but there's no fountain pens available!

<i>Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart-Leigh Bardugo

 

. Please assume no affiliation, as I'm just a pleased customer. IG: Lenses and pens_

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Charleston? Dunno. I'm 40 miles or so from Columbia, and all my pen acquisitions come from......(wait for it)......the internet!

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University of Wisconsin definitely stocks fountain pens, and they’re an eaten by B&N one. But I’m also based around the main Madison campus and I can’t vouch for smaller ones like Whitewater or Milwaukee. And we’ve got a huge group of students who speak Mandarin. So we might be a special case compared to a smaller school.

 

Penn State at least used to have fountain pen stuff even for Behrend and the med school bookstores, but I’m over 15 years out of date for them.

 

Still, the odds are much better than at most other places selling school supplies.

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