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Although fountain pens require a bit of care,
Fountain pens are
so does everything that has a personality.
like finely-tuned
And therein resides my love for them. Each European cars.
pen I own in my collection is different from
the others, and more importantly, from To calm the stormy waters, I should note that
any other writing instrument in the world. the contemporary fountain pen, and even many
Fountain pens are objects of patience, kind- older vintage models, are extremely durable and
ness, and self-control. can take quite a bit of abuse. An owner ought to
have little to no worry.
A person might disregard the fountain pen
as obsolete, forgotten instruments of times’ The modern fountain pen is made of sturdy plas-
past, replaced by better tools and techno- tics and metals that resist corrosion by the envi-
logy. This stigma, however, is a misconcep- ronment. The writing tips, or nibs, of a fountain
tion. They are not hard to use, do not leak pen tend to be made of resilient, sometimes pre-
as often as commonly believed, and work cious metals like gold, silver, platinum, exotics
better than most any other hand held ins- like palladium or rhodium, and good ol’ stainless
trument for recording things on paper. steel handle the heavy use of everyday writing
well. The downside is some of these metals hap-
pen to raise the cost of the top shelf brands.
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