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The Pen Market: Vintage Pens, Sheaffer, Parker, Fountain Pens, Inkwells, Sell Trade and Buy Vintage Pens. DISCLAIMER: Painting in broad brush strokes, it will be nearly impossible to describe all of the individual experiences, personalities, struggles, complaints and desires of veteran vendors and folks who are newer to pen collecting. In listening to the “New Pen Show Attendee Forum” at the Chicago Pen Show–and in many conversations since–these are the observations I have made in an effort to better foster understanding and friendship between pen lovers of all ages. Depending on who you talk to at a pen show…and depending on their age…it isn’t all that uncommon to hear variations of the following statements: “Young people never buy vintage. They only buy limited editions and cheap Asian junk.” “The veteran vendors are a bunch of grumps.” In addition to that, each group seems to find the other group anti-social, although each group is extremely social.
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