Crónicas Estilográficas

More often than not, frankenpens are plainly rejected by the pen collector. Once writing is no longer the primary purpose of the pen –and I ...

Platinum’s policy on dating its pens is a lot less obvious than that of Pilot’s (see Pilot's nibs datation and Pilot's pen bodies d...

Armed with the information on the way of dating not just the nibs but the whole pen –even if only during only twenty years—there are a numb...

On part II of this series of Chronicles , I explained the well known date code present on most nibs made by Pilot. That is, more often than ...

The XVIII Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 are usually associated, pen wise, to the release of the first Capless model (C-600MW) by Pilot. In...

This is the easy and well known part—the date code present on most Pilot nibs along its whole history. The basic structure of this code is...

Japanese fountain pens are, in general, easy to date precisely. Many of the pen companies have systematically engraved their nibs if some c...