Despite the pressure of the season to go out and get into impromptu wrestling matches with strangers over toys, I’ve gotten a heap of little gifts for the pen-chasing public wrapped and ready to go. New maker’s pages, for relatively new makers: Franklin-Christoph and Italix now both appear here, and I must acknowledge assistance in …
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Minor Enhancements
No technical enhancements, but thanks to a few interesting client pens passing through the shop, there are new pictures in the Targa, Duofold, Parker 45, Swan and Hundred Year Pen pages. This swarming of real-world work is keeping me from some expansions in the makers’ galleries; look forward to several modern Italian makers, a couple …
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Happy Birthday to This!
It’s a year since the site re-opened, and I’m being a very stereotypic web-based self-promoting sort by mounting a contest to celebrate. One need only put a (publishable) comment of some sort on this blog entry, and one has a chance at a rather nice little Parker “51”. How might one resist? Winner to be …
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Whose Idea Was This?
Two new pages, for pens whose existence I find slightly perplexing. For Parker, I have the 95, which seems to have been developed to compete with the contemporary Parker 88, and for Sheaffer there’s the Sentinel whose point seems mainly to undermine sales of the contemporary Sheaffer Fashion. These are all from the late 1980s; …
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What is it about the third century?
There must be something about the number 300 that is subconsciously attractive. There’s a graphic novel and film of that name (and the event they relate stands as an example too; three hundred guys is a lot for a stroll, but it’s a strange number for a military unit); there’s a couple of automobiles that …
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A Shameful Admission
I have been extemporizing on the publishing of a page for the Sheaffer Imperial VIII. No, that’s not the admission. The reason for the delay is that I was trying to discover what they cost, and within minutes of confirming that data (a photo of an original price sticker!), I published. However, that confirmation has …
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Say it with Flowers
Three new pages, two of which are marginally floral: the Waterman Garland, whose name needs no explanation; the Sheaffer Targa, which has flowers somewhere behind it, it seems (based upon my conversion of Italian to half-remembered Latin and a little help from Google Translate); the Wing Sung 233, which has no blossoms about it but …
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Executive Decision
I had intended to publish more than one page in this cycle, but since the research on the other one has… I shall say “bogged down” as if I expect eventual rescue, and I rather wanted to use (and therefore publicly admit I’ve got) this pen on my blog, this update announcement is for only the …
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