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I'm a Brit, living in the London outskirts.

 

At secondary school in the 1980s, we all had to write with a fountain pen, albeit usually inked by a cartridge. There was a bit of an arms race amongst the lads. Stypens came and went, as did the big, friendly, very inky Shaeffer No-nonsense. The big league came with Parker, and we loved them. I went through 25s in silver, black and white, had a long-lived 45 flighter, and a black arrow. Flirted briefly with Shaeffer again, but Parker was where it was at through all my school years.

 

At uni, I used cheap biros, as speed in lectures was the essence. I briefly had a Cross Townsend during my postgrad years, but it was stolen and I never replaced it.

When I started work, I became slightly obsessed with freebie pens, and amassed several hundred from conferences and the like.

 

A few years ago, I began collecting watches in earnest. Well, more flipping, to be honest. Buy, enjoy, get bored sell, repeat.

 

Then I noticed that I had some fountain pens. I had become a collector! And that led me here.

Current collection:

 

- Parker Sonnet in black & gold, medium nib- lovely piece of kit

- Parker 25 flighter with blue trim and medium nib- not the best writer, but pretty good, and very nostalgic

- Waterman Laureat in black with gold trim, medium nib- nice and smooth, but the gold is coming off the nib...

- Waterman Hemisphere in white with chrome trim, fine nib- really nice, precise writer

- Cross ATX in chrome, medium nib- bit wet, but an old friend

- Jihnao X750 in cream with chrome trim (writes very nicely, but looking a bit battered)

- Another Jinhao that looks like a Parker Vector with a hooded nib- always had a problem with the ink flow on this one

 

Also have some other pens:

 

- Parker 25 ballpoint with black trim

- Cross ATX roller in blue

- Parker Jotter flighter ballpoint

- Parker Jotter flighter pencil

- Parker Jotter ballpoint in burgundy

- Parker Jotter gel in red

- Cross ballpoint in chrome

- Cross ballpoint in black with chrome trim

 

I don't tend to flip pens, but have let some go:

 

- Montblanc 320 (old one- really miss it, but it was a bit fragile to use daily)

- Cross ATX in brushed silver (nice enough, but I preferred the chrome one)

- Parker Urban in brushed silver (didn't quite gel with this one)

 

I still use a fountain pen every day, and try to rotate so they all stay inked and don't dry up.

 

Favourite at the moment is the Sonnet. Lovely and smooth!

 

Cheers!

Alex.

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

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Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the universe from a fountain pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information waiting for you to discover on this site. Write On!

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~ apm101:

 

Welcome to Fountain Pen Network!

Your impressive fountain pen collection shows that your an ideal FPN member.

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

Happy Writing in 2020!

Tom K.

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous  Who taught by the pen

Taught man that which he knew not (96/3-5)

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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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