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I've bought some of my favourite pens from the sellers there. And learned a lot about fountain pens. I've used them since I was about 11 or 12, but I always stuck to new. Sheaffer school pens, at first, then better Sheaffers (Targas), then I moved on to Pelikans because I preferred a piston filler that drinks ink from a bottle to C/C pens. I picked up a few other makes along the way - but the FPN gave me the courage to try vintage pens for the first time. And I'm glad I did, because you can get a vintage pen from $30-$100 that writes much, much better than new pens that sell for $1,000 and more. The old Sheaffers I picked up make the best Sheaffer I ever had before seem like a rusty nail. And the Merlin Perfect (a Dutch button filler from the 1930s) that I got is magic - put it in your hand, and you will start writing. You can't help it, the words just pour out of the nib. I wouldn't sell that particular pen for $1,000,000,000,000 - and that is not a typo.

So, yes, there is a Fountain Pen Network. Where ballpoint pens are roundly dissed.

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