Review-Sheaffer School Pen

[ps4ever]

These pens were great. They might be the highest quality pen ever made when you take into consideration how much they cost. Their reliability and performance is right up there with the best of the landmark pens, in my opinion. I miss the days when these were everywhere, and so was a bottle of Skrip and Skrip cartridges. And I am speaking of the early '90's. I had these when I was a kid, and what turned me off fountain pens back then was a leaky Parker 21 (or it may have actually been a really down and out 51) that I bought at an antique store for $5. That pen put me off fountain pens for 20 years. Then I pulled out those cartridge pens, and they were still as good as ever, once the dried ink was soaked out of them. Pen hygene is not something I knew about back then, which is the source of most people's poor image of fp's, generally

[swanjun]

These pens were great. They might be the highest quality pen ever made when you take into consideration how much they cost. Their reliability and performance is right up there with the best of the landmark pens, in my opinion. I miss the days when these were everywhere, and so was a bottle of Skrip and Skrip cartridges. And I am speaking of the early '90's. I had these when I was a kid, and what turned me off fountain pens back then was a leaky Parker 21 (or it may have actually been a really down and out 51) that I bought at an antique store for $5. That pen put me off fountain pens for 20 years. Then I pulled out those cartridge pens, and they were still as good as ever, once the dried ink was soaked out of them. Pen hygene is not something I knew about back then, which is the source of most people's poor image of fp's, generally

 

My first fountain pen was a Sheaffer school pen. This was around 1989 or so, and I have some much-cherished memories of my best friend and I going to every little mom-and-pop office supply store we could find searching for rare cartridge colors. Finding King's Gold and Grey was like a gold mine!