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It kills me that 1990 is considered "vintage"
A tour of music videos of the time should help that reality sink in..
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Is that Parker 45 U.S.A. made or English Made?
It kills me that 1990 is considered "vintage"
It's last century, what do I say, last millenium!
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I shall have to find it and see. Thanks for your interest!
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I bought, and still use, a Montblanc pen that I bought new in 1959. A Meisterstuck that I bought in 1964 still going, but current pens not of same quality. For similar size and heft of Meisterstuck I prefer Pelican.
When I was in grade school we were not allowed to use ball point pens, only ink pens. The ball points were quite messy back then.
When I was in grade school we were not allowed to use ball point pens, only ink pens. The ball points were quite messy back then.
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Still checking to find out manufacturing info on the Parker I have.
ref: https://parkerpens.net/codekey.html
ref: https://parkerpens.net/codekey.html
I still have the Waterman pen with which I wrote my final school exams, and the Mont Blanc I bought after I did a particularly well paying assignment. We had a strict hierarchy of writing instruments - hard chalk pencil on slates in kindergarten, HB pencils from the 1st to 4th grades, dip pens for the language classes and pencils for the others in 5th grade, and finally fountain pens (blue ink only) from the 6th grade onwards. Ball point pens were not allowed in school, not even for teachers.
I collected Esterbrook, Watermen, Schafer, Parker 45's, etc, generally inexpensive, by necessity, fountain pens, most needing just a new sack or jbar replacement, before gold skyrocketed no that many years back and I was really teed off when many, many gold nibs were being yanked off these great old pens for gold values.
A typical #2 nib only has about one tenth of a gram 14kt gold, so you can imagine the thousands of pens being stripped just to make a gram of 24kt gold.
Some nibs are worth far more that just the rare nib-less collectable pens but gold fever seems to make that point of value, meaningless.
That said, cracked gold nibs often enough can be repaired and fresh slits made at pen shows by person's with very specific tools, employing super thin blades that can cut through gold and iridium nibs, so if your favorite pen nib needs repair, it can be done.
By the way, do no waste your money on 18kt gold nibs, as the do no perform as well as 14kt nibs, in almost, if no all, cases.
A typical #2 nib only has about one tenth of a gram 14kt gold, so you can imagine the thousands of pens being stripped just to make a gram of 24kt gold.
Some nibs are worth far more that just the rare nib-less collectable pens but gold fever seems to make that point of value, meaningless.
That said, cracked gold nibs often enough can be repaired and fresh slits made at pen shows by person's with very specific tools, employing super thin blades that can cut through gold and iridium nibs, so if your favorite pen nib needs repair, it can be done.
By the way, do no waste your money on 18kt gold nibs, as the do no perform as well as 14kt nibs, in almost, if no all, cases.
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