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Hello everyone!

Hope your holiday was good to you. My name is Eric, and I'm a pen-o-holic. Ha! I am 50(ish), and I have enjoyed fountain pens since I was in high school back in the 80's. I found this site about 6 months ago, and have been lurking about ever since. It also re-kindled my enjoyment of writing instruments, and I started collecting a few more. I figured that I ought to come out of the shadows, and try to be a bit sociable, so here I am. I don't have anything special, just a few odds and ends. My paternal grandma used dip pens when she was an office manager back in the 40's and 50's, and apparently she threw nothing away. I now am the happy owner of a box of dip pens too, as well as several boxes of new nibs for them. My meager collection of fountain (cartridge and bladder style)pens numbers about 15-20 pens. I am hoping to continue my learning process about pens, and to possibly make new friends as well. I do not have internet, so use my cell phone to do all online correspondence. I ask for your patience with me if my response time is slow. Occasionally I go to the library if I need more than my phone can give.

Anyhoo, thank you for letting me join and perhaps someday I will someday be able to contribute to the teachings found here within.

 

-Eric

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Hello everyone!

Hope your holiday was good to you. My name is Eric, and I'm a pen-o-holic. Ha! I am 50(ish), and I have enjoyed fountain pens since I was in high school back in the 80's. I found this site about 6 months ago, and have been lurking about ever since. It also re-kindled my enjoyment of writing instruments, and I started collecting a few more. I figured that I ought to come out of the shadows, and try to be a bit sociable, so here I am. I don't have anything special, just a few odds and ends. My paternal grandma used dip pens when she was an office manager back in the 40's and 50's, and apparently she threw nothing away. I now am the happy owner of a box of dip pens too, as well as several boxes of new nibs for them. My meager collection of fountain (cartridge and bladder style)pens numbers about 15-20 pens. I am hoping to continue my learning process about pens, and to possibly make new friends as well. I do not have internet, so use my cell phone to do all online correspondence. I ask for your patience with me if my response time is slow. Occasionally I go to the library if I need more than my phone can give.

Anyhoo, thank you for letting me join and perhaps someday I will someday be able to contribute to the teachings found here within.

 

-Eric

 

~ Iron-Horse:

 

Welcome to Fountain Pen Network!

Your fountain pen and dip pen collection sounds terrific.

I hope that you'll enjoy visiting this site as much as I have.

Happy Writing in 2020!

Tom K.

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Welcome Iron-Horse from a member in Missouri. I checked where Kingman is. The closest I have been is Hutchinson for the Cosmosphere. I have family in Chanute.

 

If you ever get to KC, there is a pen store in the Crown Center Shops. Do you know about Wonder Fair in Lawrence?

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Good evening, and thank you for the welcome!

Hello Misfit, my kid goes to school in Hutchinson, and my neice attends space camp at the cosmosphere every summer. My best friend from high school lives in Chanute, we talk occasionally when time allows. I have not been to Crown Center pen shop as of yet. Haven't been to K.C. in probably 10 years, and that was for the Renaissance Festival. I do want to go there sometime though. Is Fritz's restaurant still up on 18th? Only restaurant I have ever been to that delivered my meal by train! Ha!

We go up to Baldwin City every year for the Maple Leaf Festival, which puts Lawrence only 12 miles away. I will look up Wonderfair, and make plans to visit it next year. Thank you for the references!

This weekend, I went to the big city of Wichita to pick up a satchel I had repaired, and visited some antique shops. I now have 5 more fountain pens to add to my collection! Ha!

One E. Faber, an Esterbrook, a Schaeffer cartridge, a "The traveler", and a green one with no name on it. The traveler appears to have been dipped in water based paint, but is in good shape physically, so should be alright after a good cleaning. The no-name has some mild rust issues on the clip and the lever, but also easy to clean off. I used my nail to scratch the clip clean enough to see there was no name on it. No other stamping or other worded identifying features that I have seen...yet. I also bought a Quickpoint eversharp advertising the Santa Fe streamliners. There was a little (and I mean little! It occupied half a shipping container.) shop that advertised pens and stationary. Alas, after I finally found it, it was closed. Nuts. Perhaps next time.

I also found a little craft(? They had all sorts of weird stuff) store in the recesses of old town. They had several bottles of shimmer ink in blue, orange and black. Maybe have to give them a go with a dip pen.

Anyhoo, until next time.

Have a good week, and Happy New Year!

Eric

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Hi Eric. According to their website, Fritz’s is still at 18th street in KCK, and also in Crown Center where the Pen Place is. Oh, kismet!

 

I’ve been to Wonder Fair once. It is worth a stop. Few pen, ink, paper stores have it all. I’d say Wonder Fair has more paper, and Pen Place has more fountain pens and ink.

 

Unfortunately my favorite store might be in Chicago (Atlas Stationers).

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

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