WHERE IS THE MAGIC OF THE DAYS OF '44?

 

In old dear La Casita  Elementary

   We had  gone from babes  in '30

        ("See Dick and Jane run...")

To  becoming real good spellers

     and leaving "printing.."

and learning cursive writing, 

   like adults    with the more-apt

kids getting real old fashioned 

    INK FOUNTAIN PENS.

The boys, off at war, if they were 

  lucky...   carried Parker 51's

for writing  home...

In many ways it was a grand time,

  in a marvelous country   before

the days of ball  point pens...

    which seemed like good pens

at the time...

"Fountain Pens"  could be bought

   for several bucks  tho Shaeffers

Lifetime's were higher...and Parkers...

Important national documents 

  of the day, even surrenders

and laws....were signed in 

  black ink...Roosevelt used one

as did Churchill      and in the 90's

  Conway-Stewart of England,

a pen company offered

      A real Churchill Replica Pen---

a Real Copy from the 40's was offered

  to the world ...BOXED in a nice box,

with photos AND A COMPLIMENTARY

             "CHURCHILL" ...CIGAR...

(which was a  fat-cigar-size  offered

      by most tobacco companies)

                        and

the English pen company marketed

   replica WWII CH pens @ $195.00

each  If these  marvelous copies

   from history were even offered

today, it would likely be with:

               "No Cigar."

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"What happened to your CS Cigar'

Mil, the one which you got with 

your Churchill Fountain Pen?"

It is in the dark corners of the 

garage       among the  books..

somewhere...still in the box..likely  

dried out a right smart   I've 

heard they are not healthful anyway.

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As to the pen itself, the old-fashioned

rubber bladder which held the ink,

failed after a time and  Fahrney's sent

my Churchill back to England ...and

they re-worked the insides and now

it uses PELIKAN 4001 ink cartridges.

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MIL

20 AUGUST 2020