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Some recent posts gave me the idea to share with you some exclusive fountain pens that I particularly like… Pen of the Year 2008 No fewer than 84 rectangles have to be individually hand-made for the filigree herringbone pattern. No two segments are identi...  

…real complete full set not only b&p of course but fountain pen + ball pen + roller pen + pencil but these two are exquisite

…I have so many pens still to shoot 🙈 Don’t worry I also have a number of other pen photos to post including many beautiful Namiki ones…

Wonderful pens! Now that fine automobiles are being appreciated by drug dealers, and now watch collecting is mainstream and the words "Patek Philippe" are mentioned in rap music lyrics, perhaps Pen Collecting is one of the last bastion a truly sophisticat... 

It's a sad world we live in!

As for me I keep writing and deliberately do not use my laptop only. 99% of the time I use fountain pens when I write and I enjoy it always as much as looking at my watch instead of reading the time 😉

I enjoy writing hand written letters. And I enjoy fine stationary. In Italy, I'm still constantly searching for fine paper stores. And I use all the hotel stationary when I stay at nice hotels. The Japanese hotels have very thin paper, doesn't always work... 

My collection concentrates in three parts: - vintage pens with incredible nibs like Wahl Eversharp, Waterman 51, Parker 51, Mabie Todd Swan… - some very selected Montblanc Limited Editions like Hemingway, Marcel Proust, Lorenzo de Medici, and iconic vinta... 

My pen collecting days began with a Cross Townsend 30 or so years ago. I have gone through several phases — vintage, Pelikan, vintage Pelikan, etc. Montblanc forms the corpus of my collection today, and I have also representatives of several major pen hou... 

I obviously did not mention all in my list… Having some Pelikan in the stable is a must. I have a nice vintage tortoise and a Toledo M910. But for a number of reasons the ones that make my heart beat faster than others are my Namiki’s… Since we seem to ha...