Crónicas Estilográficas

Some years ago I wrote about a nominally Spanish pen brand by the name of Presidente . Then, a fellow stylophile in Greece contacted me apro...

Years ago, fellow stylophile KostasK and myself described the pen brand Joker . After some research, we concluded that Joker was a Greek bra...

Some time ago I spoke about the obscure brand Hifra. Thanks to fellow stylophile Kostas K we could guess it was a South African operation. ...

The controversy is always there : Is that pen original or a copy of another? Which company did father that idea? Sometimes, the answers are ...

This text is the final result of a collaboration of stylophiles in several countries: Eduardo Alcalde, Elena Kouvaris, Kostas Kouvaris, and ...

Some brands, Pilot among them , might be approaching the ink business as if ink were perfume. And in fact, ink and perfume are not that diff...

Thanks to a fellow stylophile I could access the following instruction booklet. It corresponds to the Pilot Capless model released in spring...

We encountered the Platinum Honest 60 pen at the time of understanding the Japanese origins of two apparently European brands: the Italian ...

The following pictures might very well summarize the connection between these pens from East and West… or might them all be Eastern pens. Jo...

Doroteo Pérez y Pérez, as we already know , registered the brand Presidente in Madrid in 1959. And we also know of the actual Japanese origi...