I always remember using fountain pens at school, not sure if it was required or a matter of choice. Feel it might have been a requirement in the early years. First fountain pen was those you refill from a bottle, so you squeezed the end of the pen and it sucked the ink up - that was then replaced by cartridges...to then be replaced by the dreaded biro lol - my favourite pen was a parker pen, main reason because it was the only tip I never broke.
Me too - passed the old eleven plus and made it to the grammar school ... remember the old girl taking me into town to get me kitted out with lots of stuff, including fountain pen, ink cartridges and blotting paper!... You sure your's wasn't a quill?
cheeky sod, no it wasn't a quill. Squeezy end to suck the ink up, might as well of had a quill. I was going to mention the blotting paper, what a fooking mess they were.
Mine had a little lever that you pulled out before putting it in ink then pushed in to make it suck ink up. My first efforts with a fountain pen were at junior school we had ink wells in the desks and the pen was a wooden stick wth a slot in the end where fou fitted the knib.
We used to have to write on velum parchment made from the skin of ferrets and have to wait weeks to complete a letter if there was a scarcity of ferrets ... but try telling that to the youth of today with their instant messaging bollocks ...
In Junior school I was top in my year for writing in italic, in the desk we had inkwells to dip our italic pens in Not quite quills but still required more care and attention than fountain pens Strangly enough to this day I still detest biros and away prefer a fountain pen, a Mont Blanc is my current one
