Show fountain vena penn old As long ago as 1824 fountain pens were in use for in that hut year thomas jefferson deberson Je Berson raw a contrivance ol of this ihla sort tried it and wrote to general bernard peyton of richmond asking him to get gel i one of them the pen was of gold and the ink tube of silver and according to jeffersons Jeffer bons letter the maker was a richmond watch repairer named cowan the price he understood was the first american patent tor for a fountain pen was granted in 1830 toone to one douglass hyde but the estol lest english patent was issued twenty one years before |