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Regular commenter Saltire Turquoise posed a very interesting question to my initial description of Sakai Eisuke's prototypes made for P...

So, these prototypes were made by Sakai Eisuke. Then, how are they compared to other pens made by this master? Needless to say, Mr. Saka...

The size 3 nib we saw on the previous text makes that pen a strange creature with no clear counterpart in the general catalog of Pilot. ...

On the previous text I spoke about a couple of Pilot prototypes made by Sakai Eisuke in the early 1980s. These pens are urushi-coated balan...

The world of prototypes is an uncharted one. And that despite the fact that we certainly know that they existed and how the final result –th...

In the 1980s Pilot renovated the fountain pen lineup. It all started with the Pilot 65 in 1983 —the first modern balance Pilot, save the Art...

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...

Ban-ei pens have shown up several times on these Chronicles and the basic data are is well known. But the devil is in the details: Sakai Ei...

To speak about fetishism in the world of fountain pens is essentially redundant. Collecting is a form of fetishism—to favor the tool for its...