Crónicas Estilográficas

On the previous Chronicle we have seen how the manufacturing date is codified on Sailor nibs. But that is not the only dating system used b...

Some time ago I published several texts with information on how to date Platinum and Pilot pens. Sailor also has its own dating systems for...

In the evolution of the Capless model by Pilot, things become a bit more complicated in 1984. Up to now, each model used its own nib unit an...

After a long hiatus I am resuming this series of texts reviewing the different Capless models released by Pilot along the past fifty-somethi...

Collectors crave for the rarity, but history is written based on common and well-known pens. So, after describing the anomaly of a gold nib ...

Some time ago, I spoke about a rather mysterious ink made by Pilot in the 1920s . That ink, by the name of Bokujû (墨汁), was described as re...

Facts are stubborn, and sometimes there is no option but changing our models. The assumed knowledge was simple—by May of 1939, the Japanes...