I have a vague recollection of owning one or two Scripto fountain pens during the 1950s. I seem to recall that they worked okay most of the time, but I was never entirely happy with them. I'm not sure if that's because at the tender age of 8 I was already lusting after a Sheaffer Snorkel, and hence dissatisfied with a lesser instrument, or if it really was a crummy pen. I had one pen that was a nightmare -- scratchy nib, hard starts, skipping, then blobbing... I think it MAY have been a Scripto, but I'm just not sure. There doesn't seem to be a big demand for them; I see them cheap as dirt on eBay. Is the Scripto going to do an Esterbrook price jump when a critical mass of fountain pen afficiandos discover them, or are they just dogs that are going to go unloved forever?
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