Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reading about the old clear plastic barrel Shaeffer pens reminds me that I used to use them too, and loved them- we used to 'gross-out' the girls by putting a live fly in the empty space at the end, and when they asked to porrow a pen, watch the horrified look on their faces!! This was all before political correctness, of course!! Back in the good ole "Tuck, Duck and Cover" days of yore! You can still find them at some stores, but the $1 days are gone, however! I still have a beat up old black paint Sheaffer Targa with a fine point that goes everywhere with me, to this day- almost the Leica M4 of fountain pens, to me, at least! Dan ( Older than dirt) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Bennett" <gbennett@lainet.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: The death of just about everything... > >2001-04-20-13:13:40 Mark Rabiner: > >> I have tremendous nostalgia for Shafer fountain pens like we used and > >>sold in > >> the school store when i was IN 7th and 8th grade in the mid 60's. > > > >Oh yeah, me too -- although my memories are from the mid 70s. > >Steel-nibbed, sold in a plastic bubble on cardboard, different plastic > >barrel/shaft/whatever-you-call-it colors. Some were kind of scratchy > >to write with, but once you found a good one, it wrote smooothly and > >stayed that way. All for a dollar-something. > > > >I retained such a good feeling from those that when it came time for > >me to buy a fancy-pants gold-nibbed fountain pen, I got a Sheaffer. > >Well, old goodwill and that Sheaffer made an elegantly slim pen, while > >things like Mont Blancs felt like holding a banana. Still have it, > >still use it, still like it. > >