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After Sailor had released the first Japanese pocket pen in 1963 – the Sailor Mini — Platinum soon followed suit with its own line of compact...

Some time ago I made some comments about the current policy of Platinum focusing on the lower and middle ranges of the market. The recent mo...

On the weekend of June 26-27, two different pen events took place in two very different cities: Madrid and Tokyo. This alone are very good n...

If only for the sake of documenting Ban-ei (挽栄) pens at large, it might be worth to publish a family picture of nibs used on them. Ban-e...

Ban-ei (挽栄) , as we know by now, was a pen brand created by Sakai Eisuke (酒井栄助) with the collaboration of a number of expert craftsmen--Tak...

In many a pen forum, the Pilot Custom Urushi , marketed initially in 2016, raised a discussion—what is better, a Custom Urushi or a Sailor K...

This text is just an addendum to the previous Chronicle . Soon after publishing it I could get my hands on another Precious Wood pen by S...