What's A Fountain Pen?!

[fmdog44]

Watching Storage Wars two ladies brought a box of fountain pens to an old dealer for an appraisal. They had never seen a fountain pen so they were amazed when the old man pulled one apart to show them how they worked.

 

[RadishRose]

I kind of remember my parents having one. I also took it apart. There was a small rubber tube that the ink flowed from after you used a tiny lever to pull the ink in from a bottle. Stained my fingers.

 

[Pappy]

I used one for years and then came along the ball point pen. Parker pens were a top line pen.

 

[RadishRose]

I remember Paper Mate and Bic, too.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I never used a fountain pen it would have been a nightmare for me being lefthanded.

I remember my grandmother using a dip style pen and a bottle of white ink to put captions under the photos in her album with black pages and little black corners.

 

[hollydolly]

We used fountain pens in school..we had inkwells , and we had to spend an hour a week practising our handwriting using the fountain pen!!

 

[Pinky]

We used the fountain pen with inkwell in grade school. Later, they came out with the pen that had an ink
cartridge in it.

 

[Keesha]

I still use fountain pens. I love how nicely they write and are perfect for pen & ink pictures.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

We had ink wells in school also. I don't remember using a fountain pen in school but we had them at home.

 

[Keesha]

We had ink wells as school also but I was just st the age where they were getting phased out and ball point pens were in

 

[Fyrefox]

My father had a fountain pen of the type that contained a rubber bladder you filled with ink from a bottle. I can remember using fountain pens that took plastic ink-containing cartridges that you screwed into them.

 

[Gary O']

We used fountain pens in school..we had inkwells , and we had to spend an hour a week practising our handwriting using the fountain pen!!

Seems around 3rd or 4th grade we traded in our pencils in English class
I went nuts and collected two oatmeal cans full
Mostly Sheaffer, and some Parker
And ink stains everywhere


After that it was T ball jotters

 

[Butterfly]

My early school desks still had inkwells, but no ink in them. I did use a fountain pen early on but haven't used one in years.

 

[fmdog44]

A lot of us used cartridge fountain pens. Cheap ball points often leaked and were messy.

 

[Pappy]

Remember when a lot of us wore shirt pocket protectors? Reason for them, originally, was for leaking pens.

 

[Geezerette]

Dipping pen with removable point into inkwell, then fountain pen that filled with a little lever from an ink bottle, then cartridges, then scripto bottles that had a little well to make it easier, then FINALLY the t-balls mentioned above. Thumb & first two fingers of r hand were always ink stained.
And a strange tradition: last day of school before summer vacation, fifth graders would smash their ink bottles on the sidewalk in front of school.

 

[Camper6]

I used one for years and then came along the ball point pen. Parker pens were a top line pen.

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I remember the first ball point pens coming out. They were expensive.

The first one I saw was made by Reynolds Aluminum.

I traded a good pen for it and it didn't work so good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Reynolds

Milton Reynolds (1892–1976), an American entrepreneur, was born "Milton Reinsberg" in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He is most famously known for the manufacture and introduction of the first ballpoint pen ... With roller balls repurposed from the metal beads used in war-surplus bomb sights and barrels machined from aircraft ...‎Developing the Gravity ... · ‎The Reynolds ... · ‎Pen Wars · ‎Reynolds the aviator

 

[gennie]

Used fountain pen with removable bladder but missed the quill and ink well period.

 

[Victor]

Some stores still sell new fountain pens.
Hey they were an improvement over feather pens!
I used mostly cartridge pens.

 

[moviequeen1]

I never used a fountain pen it would have been a nightmare for me being lefthanded.

I remember my grandmother using a dip style pen and a bottle of white ink to put captions under the photos in her album with black pages and little black corners.

Hi Aunt Bea,I'm also a lefty, used a fountain pen when I was much younger.It was difficult to say the least Sue

 

[Buckeye]

You can still buy fountain pens - here's a link to a Mont Blanc "cartridge" model.

https://www.montblanc.com/en-us/col...k-doue-geometry-classique-fountain-pen-m.html

I have several of their roller ball pens, but no fountain pens.

 

[rcleary171]

I recently purchased a fountain pen at my local A.C. Moore. Haven't used one since the late 1960's. It feels great and I like the look. So much more style than a ballpoint. I also remember when they came out - not cheap.