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Before and After Die Mauer
A couple of new pages today, one for the extremely modern, or dare I say “Mod”, Pelikan MK10, whose entire existence was under the shadow of the Cold War. The other is for the new, post-modern, Eurozone Lamy Studio. The similarities outweigh the differences, frankly, despite the yawning gulf in their contexts.
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Harmonious Balance
On the update front, yet another of the untold legions of Waterman models appears, a brief modern fling called the Harmonie. I’ve also been messing around with Sheaffer Balances, which has resulted in a page for the hitherto unseen (here) Sovereign, and the removal of a quantity of embarrassingly wrong material for the Admiral. Part …
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Dragon Bedding
To quote a purported Dutch chap invented by Mike Myers; I love gooooooold! I’m not quite so driven by cupidity as that character, but with the recent arrival of a Sheaffer Imperial Triumph (which has to be just about the most overbearing name ever lashed to a pen), I’ve arranged a little sub-gallery of pens …
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Penny-pinching and hair-splitting
In a move which I’m sure will garner cries of “Big deal,” I’ve amended the almost every pen entry on the site. Previously, I had given a set value, looking rather like: Production Run: 1948 – 1960 Cost When New: $2.00 initially, up to $2.95 by the end of the run (in modern funds, somewhere around $18.00 …
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A Useful Addition
There’s some new pages in the Galleries section, which will hopefully help people who find themselves looking at a pen and having no notion what pen it might be. For the three most thoroughly represented makers on the site, I have made up family albums, so rather than having to go page by page in …
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Slim Pickings
Just a couple of minor updates to announce. There is now a picture of a Parker Slimfold to be found on the site, and also a picture of Montblanc\’s clever ink bottle. The page for that ink has also been updated to include a minor warning about relying too heavily on pre-1990 versions of their …
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Gradual Update
Since last post here, there have mainly been subtle updates; one will find some better pictures of Sheaffer PFMs (including a new dissection) some models of Snorkel, and the Pelikan Griffix. The page for Diamine inks has a few new colours as well, but the real post-worthy news is yet more action in the world …
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A Rainbow, and a Large Damp Bird
Thanks in part to the recent bonanza of inks and also to a few minutes of spare time, I have arranged some pages on which ink colours may be compared without flipping from one manufacture’s page to another. Rather more exciting news is the addition of a page for the Pelikan Souverän line of pens. …
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Undue Excitement
As is very usual in this modern age, improvement caused woe. In this case, the host of this site performed a necessary upgrade that unsettled the WordPress software the site runs on. Those looking in from midnight CST or so until about noon will have found an alarming ‘Error establishing a database connection‘ but that’s …
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You’re Soaking In It!
Thanks to a very generous lady donating a veritable ocean of ink samples to me, I have been able to expand the profiles under the Noodler’s and Diamine ink headings, as well as add ink-producers Rohrer & Klingner and de Atramentis. A different act of generosity, which saw me with the Kaweco Sport of the …
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