Crónicas Estilográficas

After having reported on the Lanbitou 757 , that obvious copy of the Lamy Safari, it is only natural to speak about the Oaso ‘Safari’, anoth...

The experimentation with fountain pen nibs is alive and well in Japan. The Nagahara family , or some advanced aficionados like Mr. Yamada a...

Nagasawa is, in a sense, THE stationery shop in the city of Kobe in Japan. Sure enough there are some other stationers in the area, but thi...

Pre-war size 5 nibs by Pilot are very rare, as I have already explained. However, it is with size 6 nibs when die-hard collectors start to ...

“If it ain’t broke, do not fix it”, but this wise sentence does not seem to apply to the world of marketing. In fact, it might be right the ...

Some months ago I presented a couple of pens decorated with urushi lacquer . Those were Pilot Custom 67 decorated by maki-e artist Hiroshi...

Vanco was a brand of pens that has already showed up on these Chronicles . The Vanco pen on display at that time was a celluloid pen from t...