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When I read the term "ink pen" I immediately assumed fountain pen.
I heard this term as a youth in Chicago and admit I was always confused. I have since heard on reliable authority that in some parts of the country pronunciation of the words pen and pin are indistiguishable, so the modifier ink would be used to distinguish it from, say, Aint Bea's brooch.
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