Pen History The pen is founded upon thousands of years of tradition and history, and except for writing your signature and greeting cards isn’t actually needed these days. The digital world has overtaken it in business and general communications, but yet… it hasn’t lost its attractiveness as a purveyor of personality and meaning. Earliest ‘pens’ …
Monthly Archive: December 2011
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Dec 11
Penmanship
Writing with a Fountain Pen I thought it might be interesting and fun to show the different line widths and variations between some of my pens. It’s not been carefully thought through, just a quick test that I did this morning, I’ll do something a bit more professional later. The image shows the pen, the nib …
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Dec 10
Parker Pens UK
Parker Duofold, made in England Parker established a company in the UK in 1924 in order to build on their success with the Duofold Pen in America. It was a distributor for Fountain Pens made in Canada and run by an American Mr Korst. England was an important market for Fountain Pens and Parker, being keen …
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Dec 04
Sheaffer PFM
Pen For Men I recently came across a vintage Sheaffer whilst I was looking through one of my lesser used pen cases. Now this was one of my favourite pens, but that was many years ago and I’d almost forgotten about it…..after a disagreement with the tiled floor in the bathroom. I was about to …
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Dec 04
Pilot Falcon
Flexible Nib Pen Pilot Falcon Flex Nib First impressions. Rather more elegant than the usual Japanese Fountain Pen which is generally conservative in design and finish, Maki-e excepted of course. I understand that both the Namiki Falcon and the Pilot Falcon are basically the same pen, just with different trims, my pen is …
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Dec 04
Pilot Custom 742
Piot Pens, a Flex Pen My pen has the 14k Falcon nib and if you like flex nibs, you’ll love this pen. Click on the image below to see the line variation that is possible Japanese Pens I’t’s not a wet noodle, but has great flex, I just absolutely lo….ve writing with this pen, especially with the …
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