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What kind of pens become anniversary pens? Among those made by the big three Japanese pen companies we can see three basic strategies. – ...

Stylophiles are a special bunch. Driven by our anachronistic passion we often crave for certain features: gold nibs, self-filling mechanisms...

Once again, I encountered one of those pens that show the essential conflict between the collector and the historian, or between the the rar...

I have said this a number of times: fountain pens are obsolete objects, and there is nothing necessary in them. Then, on top of wanting foun...

At first, most of us stylophiles, follow the same pattern. At some point we became attracted to fountain pens and started buying and accumul...

Now and then I need to rant. Or reflect aloud. Members of the stylophile community like to brag about how wonderful we are, about how we a...

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...

The National Museum of Japanese History , in the city of Sakura (Chiba prefecture), hosts these days –March 8th to May 8th 2016—an exhibitio...

I wonder whether it is worth to write about yet another pen show . In a sense, all of them are one and the same: people gathering around fou...

I think we should face it— maki-e decorated pens are a class on their own, apart from any other. The reason lays on the fact that these pen...

The 11th edition of the Madrid Pen Show was celebrated on the weekend of November 14th to 16th, and I am bound to report on it. But that is ...