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Originally Posted by rcentros
I don't if it was odd or not to use fountain pens in the mid-60s, but I know that's mostly what I used. Just the cheap, transparent Sheaffer, medium "point" (nib?) "student" pen. I usually used blue ink. I don't think the tinted pen colors came in until later.
The picture has newer packaging then the pens I bought.
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Originally Posted by issybird
When we were first allowed to use ink (rather than a pencil) in elementary school, it had to be either a cartridge or a fountain pen. No ballpoint permitted! And ink was a privilege that had to be earned through the quality of your handwriting, what we called script back in those antediluvian days.
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Ball-points were the usual thing in my school, with the fountain pens frowned on because of mess--after my fountain-pen phase I remember using the Parker T-Ball Jotter, then switched over to felt-tip pens (purple, when they let me).
My Palmer-method script was so nice that I was always being assigned to write on the blackboard.