MY FASCINATION WITH FOUNTAIN PENS BEGAN A LONG TIME AGO.
I remember very well the first occasion I came across one. As a little boy I was rummaging about in my grandmother’s sideboard (doubtless without permission) when I found a small cigar-shaped tube of emerald green Bakelite. I pulled and its cap came off revealing a gleaming gold nib. I was enthralled.
Of course it was old and broken and would