An uncommon mid-week update, as I finally get the picture I needed in place for my page on the Sheaffer Agio. Italian-speakers will, if online translators are to be trusted, follow the title of this blurb….
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Peter Pan and the Lost… Boys?
I\’m not sure of the gender of fountain pens… I think they\’re masculine in German and French (and so, by extension, in Latin). In any event, I\’ve got some new pictures of a wrinkly Waterman Super Master, an all-metal Sheaffer Thin Model, and a blue Junior Vacumatic, which is a relatively mottly bunch to accompany the new …
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Damburst!
A sudden (relative) deluge of pens from makers I had not previously examined has produced a delayed-effect flash flood of content. The makers are the American John Holland Gold Pen Company, and Germans Merlin, A.W. Faber-Castell, and the latter’s sometime-subsidiary Osmia. This puts some new pen pages into the world as well, respectively, the Fount-Filler, …
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Holiday Snaps
A few new pictures have arisen during my summer holiday: Dissections, lesser and greater, of TWSBI’s Diamond and Vac 700; Some directions on the use of the slightly mysterious Write-On System in the Rotring Core; Yet another portrait of a Vacumatic Major, showing the golden pearl option. Not much news, but I am, after all, …
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Now open: Consumer Info Line
In the Portrait Galleries, you will now find some items under the heading of “Consumer information Department”. The initial entries are suggestions for a first-ever fountain pen, and for pens suitable to start the kids on. They’re similar in notion, but rather different in thrust, as the former is aimed at an adult taking an …
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Art and Crafts
A new page is added now for the Rotring ArtPen (yes, that’s how it’s spelled). There are also amendments to the Services menu; the lesser is a bit of a clarification on the subject of repairs to Parker “51”s, which are definitely something I do, but it is the greater is an addition of an …
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Not to be confused with a Vanishing Point
Another new page, for the Parker VP— a pen that comes as close as just about any of my collection to earning the title “rare”. When visiting pen-fancier fora, one frequently sees these letters as a short-hand for the modern Pilot product, but Parker was in first. In other news: the back-filling of measurements continues …
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A Look into the Future
I don’t claim to be a prognosticator of any real power, but I do have a couple of glimpses into the future. One of them is capitalized, as I have a page ready for the Pelikan Future, but the other is slightly more general. I’ve had a look at the measurements in the pen profiles, …
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Vrrroooom!
Since a lot of people’s thoughts turn to motorcycles when winter’s icy grip departs (at least, where winter can be said to have an icy grip), I suppose it’s appropriate that I get in a page for one of Waterman’s odd Harley-Davidson cross-market exercises while spring is still in the air. The ongoing Waterman gusher …
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