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Hi All,

 

A new member signing in from Antwerp, Belgium.

I recently rediscovered my interest in fountain pens which, with the help of our good friend google, brought me to this wonderfull forum.

 

During my school career I actually wrote for the most part with a fountain pen, not sure from what age though. I still remember the moment when I went with my father to the shop to choose the pen. The shop is long gone, but I did recently found the pen again.

It is a Sheaffer pen from the '90. It shows (unfortunately) a lot of damage after all those school years.

After disassembly & cleaning yesterday, it writes perfectly again & i will surely start using it again.

 

However, I'm also in the market for a new pen. Still unsure which direction to go. Max budget would be around 150€ & apparently there is already quite some options in that price range.

I do live very close to the penworld.be shop, so I guess I'll just drop by & check out some pens in real life.

 

Finally I'll attach some pictures from my first pen. Please don't judge me too hard about the damage it has sustained, it really went through a lot ;-)

 

 

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

 

Your school pen looks fine to me. My 1972 "Tropen Scholar" is still in my collection and writes beautifully - but it looks as if it had been through the Ardenne in WWII.

 

Save up a bit more and buy yourself a beautiful CONID Bulkfiller Kingsize, from the Antwerp Company (Fountainbel). They are fantastic writers and outperform most other pens on the market, for various reasons.

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