Show fountain pens old As AE long ago as 1824 fountain pens bere iere ere in use for in that year thomas fferson saw raw a contrivance of this sort fed it and wrote to general bernard i eyton of richmond asking him to get ne e of them the pen was of gold and e ink tube of silver and according to letter the maker was a rich biond biond watch repairer named cowan he ie price he understood was the he first american patent for a fountain en n was granted ir in 1830 to toone one douglass yde lyde but the earliest english patent las jis issued twenty one years before |