While I was hoping to see a fountain pen, the task requires an extra fine line, I guess ...
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/5...paper-currency
While I was hoping to see a fountain pen, the task requires an extra fine line, I guess ...
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/5...paper-currency
Bob
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Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
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Chrissy (March 16th, 2021), damfino (March 24th, 2021), Jon Szanto (March 16th, 2021), SlowMovingTarget (March 17th, 2021)
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That is a great disappointment. Perhaps she had to do it really quickly with no time to find a fountain pen?
But thank you for sharing BWFP.
Last edited by Chrissy; March 17th, 2021 at 02:02 AM.
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BlkWhiteFilmPix (March 17th, 2021)
She went to my high school, long before me, back when students might have used fountain pens. But who knows.
I cannot trust anyone, especially at her age, wearing an I-watch or whatever they are called. She should have been wearing a mechanical watch or, given her lack of sophistication, a quartz watch. One could only hope she would have used a fountain pen but I suspect there is some rule about using a ball point to sign one's name for future currency.
Last edited by Roe D Hym; March 17th, 2021 at 05:31 AM.
Seattleite (March 17th, 2021)
For anyone curious about her signature, the Government is going to be printing and handing out trillions of copies. We each get a stack whether we need it or not. Should stimulate fountain pen sales.
Bob
BlkWhiteFilmPix (March 17th, 2021)
I am saving my stack of copies to pay for the eventual increase in taxes.
SlowMovingTarget (March 17th, 2021)
Secretary Lew used a ballpoint pen.
Here are some more samples from other Treasury Secretaries
After my French test next week, I think I'll put one of my fountain pens to paper and send her a letter asking why she didn't use a fountain pen.
Last edited by BlkWhiteFilmPix; March 17th, 2021 at 02:48 PM.
Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
“If ‘To hold a pen is to be at war’ as Voltaire said, Montblanc suggests you show up in full dress uniform, ready to go down like an officer and a gentleman among the Bic-wielding hordes.” - Chris Wright
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
www.bobsoltys.net/fountainpens
Yazeh (March 19th, 2021)
Or, perhaps the signature block is too small for the flourishing signatures we make with fountain pens.
Maybe a technical requirement about reflectivity and scanning.
Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
“If ‘To hold a pen is to be at war’ as Voltaire said, Montblanc suggests you show up in full dress uniform, ready to go down like an officer and a gentleman among the Bic-wielding hordes.” - Chris Wright
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
www.bobsoltys.net/fountainpens
Absurd. She was valedictorian and editor of the school paper at her enormous Brooklyn HS, phi beta kappa at Brown, a Yale PhD and a prof at Berkeley. Not to mention Fed Chair and Treasury secretary. I think she knows the score. Even without a Rolex or whatever you were hoping to see on her wrist.
Barry B. Gabay (March 22nd, 2021), Ole Juul (March 19th, 2021), Yazeh (March 19th, 2021)
Seattleite (March 18th, 2021)
Absurd? People can write with text machines, computers, ball point pens and roller ball pens; the latter two can be purchased for about $1 each. Why would anyone spend hundreds of dollars for a fountain pen and use such an antiquated device? This is a fountain pen forum and we promote the use of fountain pens. In watch forums we promote mechanical watches. Fountain pens and mechanical watches may seem antiquated but yet many prefer them over such things as BIC pens and I-watches.
Last edited by Roe D Hym; March 19th, 2021 at 07:00 AM.
BlkWhiteFilmPix (March 24th, 2021)
To produce the best exemplar possible to reproduce signatures, wouldn't you expect the engravers to specify and provide the writing instrument, the ink and the surface? I doubt her general writing preferences entered into it.
Barry B. Gabay (March 22nd, 2021), BlkWhiteFilmPix (March 24th, 2021)
I doubt anybody cares, except here.
Seattleite (March 19th, 2021)
Lack of sophistication indeed! Graduate of Brown; Yale Ph.D. Instructor at Harvard & Berkeley. Dr. Yellen is the ONLY person in history to have headed the White House Council of Economic Advisors, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department. What an unsophisticated individual.
BlkWhiteFilmPix (March 24th, 2021), jar (March 23rd, 2021)
Barry, you are equating education with sophistication and i was equating wearing a mechanical watch with sophistication. I made the assumption that folks who use fountain pens would be of the same mindset of those who wear mechanical watches.
Ole Juul (March 23rd, 2021)
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