[Red_October_7000]

Not so much "collect" as "Inherited a double handful". That said one of them, a cheap Sheaffer's, became my everyday pen because it writes very smoothly and produces a line finer than a Japanese-made archival-grade ceramic-tip drafting pen, not to mention is easier to use than the latter, which requires a very precise touch, and will either damage or be damaged by certain types of paper. My grandmother's Esterbrook got me through highschool with all the writing I had to do, since my hand cramps up very easily when writing and the ease of using a fountain pen helps this problem since you basically glide it over the paper. I have several cheap Sheaffer's, the Esterbrook, a Parker Duofold (a black original type unique to the year 1928), some weird old knock-off pen, a few Sheaffer's caligraphy pens, a couple Parker "51"s and Vacumatics, and so on. Most of them write or just need a cleaning, only the Duofold and the old knock-off need a new sac, and while the Duofold will definitely see repair, the knock-off is so poorly made the I don't really care. It's an heirloom, though, so I'll hold onto it. I did dip the Duofold to see how it wrote; there is nothing on earth like a fountain pen from the days when this was how 90% of the population wrote.