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Good morning! I have been a fountain pen user for several years now but just joined this forum today. Good to be among those who share my addiction! 🤣 

 

Current pens:

Pilot Metropolitan 

Lamy Al Star

Moonman M2

TWSBI GO

Jinhao X750

Sheaffer Targa

Kaweco Al Sport

 

I’ve attached a photo of my great-grandfather. I’m hoping someone can help me identify the writing instruments in his breast pocket. 
 

Thanks, all!

 

 Jon

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Hello Jon, and welcome :)

 

What a great picture - do you have any idea where/when it was taken? That would help a lot in narrowing down the search a little.

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I know it’s a small thing, but I would love to figure out the writing instruments and procure a set. I journal daily and keep his picture on my desk. I have so little connection to my great-grandfather, though his first name, Abram, is my middle name. He was a minister and died of tuberculosis while yet in his 30s. But my grandmother loved her daddy so much that she wrote a biography of his short life. She was in her 80s at the time and very close to passing herself. 

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Welcome to FPN!  I looked at the photo but could not determine much...other than one on the left appears to be a a fountain pen typical of the period (Duh!?!?). Having made such a profoundly astute observation, I will leave the identification to someone who hopefully can recognize something with the clips of two writing instruments that might suggest a brand name.  What is cool about owning a vintage pen is knowing that it comes from a specific period of time.  Your photo drives that realization home for me.  I have a couple of early Sheaffer "flat tops" that are from or slightly before the period of your photo.  I will look at them a bit differently now...

 

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35 minutes ago, Bristol24 said:

Welcome to FPN!  I looked at the photo but could not determine much...other than one on the left appears to be a a fountain pen typical of the period (Duh!?!?). Having made such a profoundly astute observation, I will leave the identification to someone who hopefully can recognize something with the clips of two writing instruments that might suggest a brand name.  What is cool about owning a vintage pen is knowing that it comes from a specific period of time.  Your photo drives that realization home for me.  I have a couple of early Sheaffer "flat tops" that are from or slightly before the period of your photo.  I will look at them a bit differently now...

 

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I agree! I love being connected to the past, always have. I have a beautiful oak bedroom set that’s been in my family for over a hundred years. My people have been conceived, lived, and died in this bed. Writing with a fountain pen has become such a source of joy to me that I want to incorporate it with love of family and love old things. The only old pen I have is a Sheaffer Targa given to me by an old man I’ve recently gotten to know. Interestingly, it’s the best writer I have. Fountain pens seem to be capable of putting the lie to what C.S.Lewis called “chronological snobbery”. 🤣

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1 hour ago, Jon Delamarter said:

The only old pen I have is a Sheaffer Targa given to me by an old man I’ve recently gotten to know. Interestingly, it’s the best writer I have. Fountain pens seem to be capable of putting the lie to what C.S.Lewis called “chronological snobbery”. 🤣

I suggest you begin the quest for a pen or two made before 1930.  Since Abram Snyder was a pastor, he probably was not extravagant in his purchases so a modest fountain pen of good utility would likely fit his style.  Look at some of the modest Sheaffers and even Wearevers from that period, for example.  As to C. S. Lewis, I don't think he would be surprised at the shape of things today... disappointed, yes, but not surprised.  BTW, we have a condo down in the Montgomery-Conroe area and enjoy (read appreciate, value, cherish, etc.) the more traditional social norms exhibited there very much.

 

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Because not everyone looks in here, I would post your picture on the specific forum for US-made pens, where one of the resident experts may be more likely help with identification. Good luck in your quest.

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