Fountain pens - ostentatious?

[Colonel]

fftopic: What tweaking has Zondervan done to the KJV? I tend to use the New Geneva NKJV, although it's not based on the earliest manuscripts...And I use a fountain pen to write my notes, too...

PM sent on that one - so as to not take the thread off topic as I so often do.

 

[brspiritus]

I used to have 2 nice fountain pens, a Limited Edition Senator Zeppelin and an older Parker that belonged to my grandfather. Unfortunately both are gone now, the Zepp having been stolen in a burglary 11 years ago and the parker was lost in a move. I'm hunting ebay looking for some values, until then I still have my collection of dip pens and yes I use them on a more or less daily basis.

UPDATE: I just won a NOS "American" lever filler from the 40's. Looking forward to it coming, seems I'm the first owner who's actually going to use it.

 

[DeaconKC]

I carry FPs daily on my job. And as I am a Prole Agent sometimes they get bounced around. My expensive or older vintage pens stay home and are reserved for Sunday usage. My Cross ATX, Shaeffer Javelin, a couple of Waterman Harleys, a Namiki Pilot and a Parker 45 see use in the daily rotation. I just tell folks "I like them" and go on with my business.

 

[Shangas]

I'm just wondering.

WHEN, WHY and HOW was and is, a fountain pen considered ostentaious?

I just don't understand it. Someone explain it to me, please.

 

[hathead]

I use a fountain pen every day. I am in sales and I write quite a bit. I find they are more comfortable use and they look professional. I loose about one shirt a year to a fountain pen leak but that just the way it goes.