New since last I updated the news:

Imperial desk pens, which is fairly self-explanatory.

The Espero, about which I make up stories somewhat more than I report facts.

The Pelikan Level, about which I say rather unflattering things.

The Montblanc Meisterstück 149, which the maker has laboured long years to render “iconic”.

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 the Diamine page.

The page for the Sheaffer Junior has been updated, with slightly better dates and a little more actual information about the model, and a picture of the PFM III has been added to the page for that set of models.

Parker gets a new page about the Jack Knife Safety Pen, which is, curiously, not actually a pen.

Pelikan had two new pages; the Signum, a short-lived model from the worst time history has yet offered for fountain pens, and the P1, which as Pelikan pens go is both oddly shaped and strangely named.

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 my search of the site for “Mont Blanc”, which I now have to admit is a mountain and not a pen company.  I’ll be fixing them; you can just point and snigger.

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 upon.  I also put up an admission of intellectual laziness as a permanent reminder that this site is full of information, but it’s not necessarily an authority.

*You may, if you’re wondering “who can’t afford a Varsity?”, want to look into the activities of a local food bank; you’d be surprised at how many jobs most of the people who rely on those things are actually working.  I won’t do any more than whisper the words “homeless shelters”….

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 added to the roster of photos.

Also appearing since last update, a slightly shallow look at the Pelikan 120; I may one day inflate it if an older version of the pen comes before me.

I hope one and all have has as merry a Christmas (or other solstice-proximate festival) as my crowd did, and that the merriment and delight persists into 2014.

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 the Pelikans of the mid- to late 1960s, the M30.
• A single new Sea Green Pearl photo in the early part of the Duofold page.
• A new sub-page for a Sheaffer Balance from before the time they had names, the 74T.
• A new sub-page for the Sheaffer “TRIUMPH”, the stem from which the whole line of Triumph pens developed and Sheaffer’s shot in the brief war of unnecessary quotation marks in pen names of the early 1940s.

This means there have also been amendments to various gallery pages, of course.

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 of the imprint makes it not quite the same thing.  Go read the page for illumination.

More dire is a raging mis-identification.  The page which once belonged to the Sheaffer TRZ has been remade thanks to information received into the Sheaffer Fashion.  My previous researches had suggested a lot more difference in the sections of the two models than necessarily existed, and I focused on this at the expense of other cues on the cap.  It turns out I have a Fashion, and since I don’t have a TRZ my own rules call for hauling down the old page, even if most of what it said was right and only the picture is an outright lie.  Thanks to Maja and Bill for putting me closer to right on this.

Anyone got a TRZ they want to lend?

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 they belong to and the family from which they stem, which also includes the lately-arrived M20

Also appearing since the last update is a pen for the Pilot Metropolitan (a.k.a. at least two other things, depending on where you live); inexpensive but not to be discounted.