Mod Style Pens

[Dickkooty2]

You want ornamentation? You can't handle ornamentation!

 

 

 

 

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Julio de Diego, River Patterns (platter), 1950. Stoneware, glazed, 2 1/4 × 19 1/4 × 12 1/4 inches. Stonelain, Associated American Artists, private collection.

The Grey Art Gallery at New York University

Art for Every Home:

Associated American Artists, 1934–2000

April 19–July 9, 2016

 

Yes, it is that line. Please see A Few Good Men youtube watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk

[tonybelding]

how about form AND function? Form, ornamentation has a function, is function. For me, old tools would express this. In my opinion, closed nibs do not deserve to be called nibs. I think, someone wanted to make a fountain pen look like a ball pen. Yuck.

 

 

I couldn't disagree more. The leading exemplar of all "closed nibs" was the Parker 51, the best-selling fountain pen of all time, which was introduced in 1941 -- a couple of years before the modern ballpoint (Biro) was first sold.

 

My favorites remain Sheaffer inlaid nibs. Not only are they striking and attractive, but they are also some of the best-writing nibs I've found. They also make filling more convenient, because a quick swipe from a tissue will remove excess ink from the pen, and there are no edges to snag or exposed feed gills to blot, and they don't dry out very quickly when uncapped. That's a perfect marriage of function and style.

[Dickkooty2]

 

 

I couldn't disagree more. The leading exemplar of all "closed nibs" was the Parker 51, the best-selling fountain pen of all time, which was introduced in 1941 -- a couple of years before the modern ballpoint (Biro) was first sold.

 

 

 

 

Absolutely! Ditto your history.

 

That Dick

Former Parker employee in Janesville

[Pen Engineer]

Ornamentation is not for everyone...

 

Writing style, comfort, quality and what else to call it, is a personal experience.

 

Your marketing information, based on data, is indisputable.

 

...former fountain pen ingeneer