Crónicas Estilográficas

On this text, some more notes on Ban-ei (挽栄) pens, including some corrections to my own words. These pens made by Sakai Eisuke (酒井栄助) an...

Which one is the original and which one is the copy? It is well known that the big three Japanese pen companies keep a close eye on each o...

Last week I described the case of the nibs made by the company Ishikawa-Kinpen Seisakushô for Ferme and how those nibs were labeled with th...

When writing the Chronicle on the actual origins of the nibs of many pen manufacturers, my intention was only to provide an introduction fo...

Ferme was a minor brand of fountain pens and other writing tools about which not much is known. Andreas Lambrou and Masamichi Sunami, on the...