Famous Five Stationery
- pete9012S
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That's amazing.The script Courtenay posted is exactly what my junior school in the early to mid 1970's demanded,no exceptions.
We had to 'keep to the lines' too.
The height of each letter was stressed and no joined up writing of 'Y' or 'G' was allowed.
When we got to senior school they said write how you like and my handwriting went to pot.
No other local schools seemed to write like ours,they all let the children have as many loops etc as they wanted!
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- John Pickup
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I have decided to buy the Famous Five postcards when they come out. I shall probably never use them as it would be a shame to smudge the ink on the back of such lovely cards.
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I'm in total agreement, John. I won't be spoiling mine by writing on them.
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I agree John and Eddie. These items are collectibles rather than everyday usage items.
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I'm interested to hear the views on collectibles. We have a "surprises" drawer for those rainy or challenging days but tend to then use the items - events over the years have encouraged us to this philosophy if you could call it that - eat off the "good" china and silver every day, open the scented soap, send the card, use the lace hanky!, a purely personal point of view of course...
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I must confess that this discussion really slipped my attention. And even though I would probably not use FF stationery on a day to day basis, I still use fountain pens regularly and on good paper, too.
I have a Parker 51, a whole flock of (mostly) older Pelikans (400s mainly), a Lamy 2000 and a Pilot Decimo Capless. The most recent member of the team is a Sailor.
I love playing about with several inks and like I said, I use the pens for work, writing down answers to questions or short text for the pupils to copy in their exercise books. We have visualizers and data projectors in the classrooms and so I needn't use the black board.
I have a Parker 51, a whole flock of (mostly) older Pelikans (400s mainly), a Lamy 2000 and a Pilot Decimo Capless. The most recent member of the team is a Sailor.
I love playing about with several inks and like I said, I use the pens for work, writing down answers to questions or short text for the pupils to copy in their exercise books. We have visualizers and data projectors in the classrooms and so I needn't use the black board.
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How well would the paper hold to old-fashioned, wet Diamine ink from a broad nib I wonder? Not that I would ever use one, my handwriting makes me an F or EF person... just like Dick, not too neat a hand. Anne probably would be better at that.
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I worked for a very important arm of the Government in the nineties, and I always used a fountain pen with black ink on our file jackets and official papers with. We had an official ink allowance too!
As someone who has major problems with handwriting I should say a good broad nibbed fountain pen does help produce neater work.
As someone who has major problems with handwriting I should say a good broad nibbed fountain pen does help produce neater work.
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As well as a certain type of (permanent) ink you were allowed to use, I presume.We had an official ink allowance too!
Interesting you should say that - I have trouble with my handwriting as well, and I have to go for Fine (F) unless there is an Extra Fine (EF) option... my stationer once told me of the following way to determing the nib size:As someone who has major problems with handwriting I should say a good broad nibbed fountain pen does help produce neater work.
Hand the customer a pen and ask him to draw 'e' letters. The ones the customer does where the 'hole' in the e is still discernible determine which pen and which nib will fit.
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That wouldn't apply to me, as when I use a wider nib I automatically make my letters slightly bigger!
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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I have an italic nib in one of my fountain pens. It is incredible how it improves the handwriting.
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Italic nibs are lovely. My favourite nib is an oblique F, which offers a lot of flex for such a fine nib. Add the right ink and you really are ready for Christmas post.
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