<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Besides that, I think the ball point was invented after the war.<div>I remember at school in Scotland, we were not allowed to use them, had to use pen and ink., and that was 1950.</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 22-01-2012, at 12:06 PM, David Boyce wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font face="Arial">I know, Joe, it did to me as well. But on close and careful examination I could see the slight spreading by capillary action into the paper fibers that you get with fountain pen ink. And it was one in a series of consecutive regular dates in a sequence of several years, the others being in pencil.  There was no sign of any of the dates, including the ink one, having been written over older dates underneath, and the paper is clearly very old, not from 1999!   <br> <br> Best regards,<br> <br> David.<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">David., To my eye that looks like Blue Ball Point Pen INK!</pre> </blockquote> <br> </font> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>