Model and worth?

[grainweevil]

My school actually made us use Platignum school pens (the blue ones with the weird-shaped caps), which they provided, helpfully "broken in" by several generations of equally heavy-handed neophytes before us. The emphasis was rather definitely on "broken". How I can look an FP in the nib after that introduction is beyond me.

As to the P25 and Proteus' inability to "get" it, I find I appreciate it more when I remember it was designed by the great Sir Kenneth Grange, and thus is part of a design legacy that encompasses, well, basically everything from the Intercity 125 train to the Kenwood Chef food mixer. Like many of his designs, it is actually designed and thus fit for the job. He's just never really done pretty.