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Bhartman007 NOS (New Old Stock)

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Hello all!

 

I came across this site while doing some research about learning Spencerian and decided to stick around.

 

I doubt any of these will be very interesting, but I inhereted these fountain pens from my grandmother after she passed away two years ago. I know she used one or two of them when she was in school in the 40s.

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Welcome !

 

DON'T FORCE ANYTHING ! ! !

If it does not move as easily as your household, light switch, on the wall, STOP.

Dried ink can "lock" things up. We would not want to break any mechanisms.

 

Heirloom fountain pens are to cherished. Imagine your grandmother writing with the pen, everyday.

She wrote to schoolmates, and girlfriends, and sweethearts. She addressed wedding invitations

for her marriage to your grandfather. She wrote to friends boasting of the birth of her grandchildren.

 

Having an old, unbroken fountain pen restored to usefulness is not especially expensive. The "lever"

pens will need new internal ink bladders. I assume that caps are missing from the three on the right.

 

You are steward to a great family treasure.

 

Write with joy.

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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

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Thanks for the warm welcomes. I'm looking forward to adding a new hobby to the long list of things I don't have the time or money to do well, haha.

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Being in Houston you MUST go to Dromgoole's in Rice Village. You'll love the ambiance and the wide

variety of pens. I live in Victoria but visit my daughter in Missouri City about once per month.

Pat Barnes a.k.a. billz

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Welcome! I'm also a Houstonian and I second Dromgoole's. Go on a Saturday when the Pen Doctor (former Galveston Chief Medical Examiner/pen doctor) is there. He fixes pens and diagnoses writing issues. He shaved a pen nib for my specifications.

 

And check out the ink that's sold there - like Texas Blue Bonnet - that's not sold anywhere else.

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Hi and welcome to FPN.

 

Interesting pens... enjoy them... and our forum

 

 

D.ick

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KEEP SAFE, WEAR A MASK, KEEP A DISTANCE.

Freedom exists by virtue of self limitation.

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Being in Houston you MUST go to Dromgoole's in Rice Village. You'll love the ambiance and the wide

variety of pens. I live in Victoria but visit my daughter in Missouri City about once per month.

Awesome. I'll have to pay them a visit sometime! I just went through Victoria the last week of January on my way to Laredo for my job.

 

Welcome! I'm also a Houstonian and I second Dromgoole's. Go on a Saturday when the Pen Doctor (former Galveston Chief Medical Examiner/pen doctor) is there. He fixes pens and diagnoses writing issues. He shaved a pen nib for my specifications.

 

And check out the ink that's sold there - like Texas Blue Bonnet - that's not sold anywhere else.

With two recommendations, I'll definitely have to go, haha.

 

Any writing/pen type clubs or groups in Houston I should Know about?

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Hello and welcome, I have included one link which gives information regarding the Dallas pen Club.

 

http://www.dallaspenshow.com/how-to-join.htm

 

There might be others, they would be a place to begin and might have additional information. My location is nowhere near TX, just like doing reseach and helpng fellow Network enthusiast, particularly new people. Good luck, Enjoy, nice inherited pens with no doubt plenty of history. As some people say about other items of bygone days, "if only they could speak." Perhaps in lieu of speaking, you might be able to help them to once again write.

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Ea Alis Volat Propiis, per/Repletus Fontis Calamus!
She Flies by Her Own Wings, with filled Fountain Pen

 

Delta DolceVita, F-C Intrinsic 02, Pelikan M800 red/black striation, Bexley ATB Strawberry Swirl, Red Jinhao 159, Platinum 3776 Bourgogne. :wub:

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Back from Dromgoole's yesterday.

Lone Star Pen Club meeting

March 11

6:30 PM

4803 Bissonnet St.

Bellaire,TX

lonestarpenclub@gmail.com

Pat Barnes a.k.a. billz

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