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Apr
26
Changin’ ponies, but not stables
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I did not write this post, and take no credit for the content. The following post comes from What’s going on at Richard Binder • Fountain Pens, so be sure to thank the author there if you like the information. Go to original source.
A few days ago, a big bag o’ pens came to the head of the queue. Jim, to whom the lot fell, dug through the bag and abstracted three, count ’em THREE, straight-cap Onotos. One was a virtual duplicate of the one in my collection, with an over-under feed.
Now this, you may or may not know, was the first pattern De La Rue produced, beginning in about 1906. But the primitive feed really doesn’t control flow very well, and in fairly short order Onoto the Pen began sporting a more ordinary underfeed, and the other two pens in that lot were of this variety…
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