I watched this season 2 episode tonight with my parents who are the age of Jerry Mathers and they thought it was ridiculous that Beaver was using a dip pen and bottle ink to write the letter to Aunt Martha. Mom said something like "It wasn't the 15th century!" LOL! I didn't think anything of it because dip pens are trendy right now, but I guess it is weird that an eight year old boy would use one in 1958. Why do you think the writers/producers had him use a dip pen?

Wow they did like with an inkwell?? I think I remember that and it was quite ridiculous. I remember in Beaver and Ivanhoe he’s also writing up a pact for becoming a knight and he’s using a fountain pen maybe with ink and wipes ink on his shirt.

When Ward went into his desk drawer and got ink all over his hand, and then grounded Beaver (and he then went to the movies and won a bike)...I guess Beaver was filling a pen with ink.

I was a kid in those years, and I don't remember using a pen you had to fill. I vaguely remember some pens had an ink cartridge you could put in them.

When did ball-point pens come onto the scene?

Wow they did like with an inkwell?? I think I remember that and it was quite ridiculous.

You need to re-read what I wrote in the first post.

I know bottle ink but just threw in the bit about the old inkwells in kids’ desks back in the old days.

I believe we used a lot of Bic pens but back in the early grades in penmanship we had black pens ink included.