EARLIER TODAY, news of the “Never Again! A Tribute to the Holocaust” collector’s fountain pen arrived to my email inbox. Here’s a description from a retailer’s website:
Tag Archives: Fountain Pens
The Return of the Fountain Pen
Above: a Wahl-Eversharp Doric in the colour “Kashmir,” c. 1931, after a restoration.
FOR YEARS I’ve been restoring old fountain pens. As I’ve written elsewhere, I enjoy writing with this now anachronistic instrument — and in fact I’ve used a fountain pen for so long that they may not yet have fallen out of favour when I bought my first (a Sheaffer No-Nonsense) in the late 1970s.
Of Christmas and the Parker 51
A LOVER OF languages and of literature — the name of this website is Owenna’shon:a, or words — as well as of all related matters, I’ve put together over the years a decent collection of the various tools of the trade. A recent move and downsizing compelled me to get rid of my 1952 Corona Silent typewriter, but I have kept (among other things) my writing papers and blank books and cards and my lap-desk. As I’ve noted elsewhere, I have a stationery fetish with an emphasis on the fountain pen. I don’t expect anyone not afflicted likewise to understand, and so what follows is less an attempt to bring you around to my view of things than a mere indulgence.
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