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(Some modifications to the original post were added on Nov 4th, 2013) I think I could see this coming. The ink business is too profitable ...

On these Chronicles I have extensively spoken about the Capless family of pens by Pilot. So much, in fact, that I ended up creating its own ...

Platinum dates its origin in 1919 when Shunichi Nakata open a shop in Okayama to sell imported pens. In 1924 he moved to Tokyo and founded t...

Some weeks ago I included the picture of an ad by Pilot on pens marketed in 1978. It was perfect to illustrate the pen under analysis –a Cu...

Tombow is a very minor Japanese manufacturer regarding fountain pens. So small, some might say, that there is not a single line about it on...

Sailor inks are well known by now even overseas from Japan. And, as of today, after the transitional period of the seasonal inks (between De...

Year 1965 saw several new models of the Pilot Capless. After the expensive model of 1963 ( C-600MW , JPY 6000, and variations), Pilot made c...