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In essence, this text is summarized in one sentence and one picture: A Sailor ad from 1963. The first pocket pen released in Japan, ...

Prototype pens, proofs of concept, are some of the holy grails of collecting almost anything. The reasons are clear: they are rare –very few...

Chinkin technique consists, basically, in sprinkling some gold powder on an lacquered surface, previously carved with the pattern to be reve...

Nibmeister Nobuyoshi Nagahara (長原宣義) passed away yesterday in Kure. He was 82. Nibmeister Nagahara in 2011 in Tokyo. He will be miss...

Sometimes the blog acts as public service. But I will also add a personal consideration. Years ago I published a text on the size 10 serie...

March 3rd is, in Japan, Girl’s Day . People celebrate it with altars –the hina ningyo , 雛人形-- showing male and female dolls –the emperor and...

Sailor seems very active lately in the ink department. Last year, let us remember, Sailor changed the ongoing selection of Jentle (regular, ...