Category: Front Page News

Recent additions, in order of the effort involved: I finally got out of my head that basing an ink review on a cartridge version of an ink was wrong, with the result that I now have a page under the ink profiles for Platinum containing a whole two inks.  There has also been another addition to …

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Events have finally put a Montblanc pen in my hands, which allows me to write up a page of a very tiny Meisterstück, as well as a general history for the company which has the distinction of having more umlauts than any other page I’ve yet written. Those with lots of spare time can join me in …

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That’s my Etsy store.  I’ve finally put things in order to allow the direct use of credit cards to pay for things, including Etsy’s own gift cards. If I had more than a mere handful of pens up for sale over there, this might lead to big things.

A couple of new pages up, for pens that almost anyone* could afford:  The Platinum Preppy and the Pilot Varsity. Also appearing since the last update are a new page for Stipula inks (or rather, “ink” singular at the moment) and the addition of Grenade on the Jentle ink page, which I willingly throw myself …

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I’ve finally gotten a Platinum pen to look at, so now there’s a page for that company and the pen itself.  Don’t get too excited, though– it’s just a Plaisir. I have also, through a kind donation, added a couple of colours to the HUGE and extremely incomplete roster of Diamine inks.

A just couple of small items to cap off the year– the appearance of a Slim Targa in my life leads to a very small expansion of both text and pictures on the page for Targas of all girths, and a slightly unusual (“rare” would be overstating the case) Sage Green Snorkel has also been …

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Arrivals since the last update, although some aren’t strictly speaking new anymore: An update to the Parker Moderne page, with somewhat more information for the older version of the model (which, if I were slightly dishonest, I could expand to a page for the Duette Jr.). An entirely new page for a slight variation on …

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A crowd of emails over the weekend has seen me re-working a couple of pages.  The less consequential is a note on an anonymous Italian pen indicating that it’s apt to remain anonymous.  The sender of the email concerning it offered an identification, based on one just like, but with an imprint… but the fact …

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If I were not pleased with the development, I’d say I have a plague of Pelikans happening.  The appearance of some of fresh models, the somewhat pedestrian (and slightly dubious) P475 and the entirely delightful P488 has forced me to add not just their pages, but a couple of portmanteau pages for the family which …

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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.