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...

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. ...

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

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

War restrictions in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s severely reduced the availability of some metals for the pen industry. As a result, most (i...

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...

Let us remember now that all the Presidente pens I have seen were aerometric fillers . And they were based on the first cartridge pens ever...

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...

Information adds value to pens. Knowing who made that obscure pen and under which circumstances do indeed increase the interest and the appe...