![]() ![]() If you go to Ryman or another high street stationer, you’ll pay up to £25 depending on whether it’s all-stainless, plastic, or some variation. Nothing about the pens or their packaging suggests that these pens are fake, used returns, or anything else untoward. I bought two Parker Jotter fountain pens from Amazon this week, paying just under £10 for one and just over £10 for the other, on special deals. So I’ll start with the price, because it’s a defining part of the argument. ![]() If your first pen is crap, you will go back to your ballpoint. I fiercely believe that these pens should be inspiring enough to make newbies want to buy their second pen. Beginner fountain pens (under £25) are perhaps the most important category of pens.And the ballpoint Jotter is an awesome little pen, utterly ubiquitous yet a design classic. I owned Vectors and 25s and 45s and loads of others, and they never let me down, never broke, always wrote well. They still carry the Royal Warrant and, well, Parker shouldn’t do crap pens. Nowadays they may just be a Newell Rubbermaid brand, but I still want them to do well. I have deep, fond memories of Parker fountain pens from when I was growing up.Let me be bold and say this: the Parker Jotter is a pretty bad fountain pen.īut before I explain why, let me clarify a couple of starting principles: ![]()
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