<[[Brennen]]> I love fountain pens. I presently own half a dozen Sheaffers - several basic plastic school pens of various vintages, a fat-barreled "calligraphy" pen with 3 sizes of interchangeable nib, and a $5 model I found in a college bookstore in Billings, MT. A couple that my mom used in grade school are easily the best of these. I also have a turquoise plastic Parker 21 that belonged, at some stage, to my Aunt AnnaMaeBrenner. It's a bit leaky and the cap is a little loose, but it's a beautiful design and it writes like a dream. (Though never ''quite'' as well as it wrote before I took it to work at SunMicrosystems and handed it to a customer, signing for a package, who promptly dropped it point-first onto the floor. I could have decked the guy, but it was my own fault.) <[Brennen]> http://www.isellpens.com - astonishingly bad web design, many pens for sale. <[Brennen]> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.collecting.pens-pencils/topics <[Brennen]> wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheaffer Sheaffer] <[Brennen]> A whole bunch of [http://www.marcuslink.com/pens/ink-02.htm notes on fountain pen inks].