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May 03, 2015

Nobuyoshi Nagahara

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  , master pensmith.   Nagahara looking at the nib on this pen .        I met and talked with Nagahara, through a translator, on j...
May 01, 2015

Dear Reader,

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           I know that reading this blog is sometimes almost as difficult as getting to Tebaronga on the atoll of Abariringa , or Kiribati...
April 28, 2015

‘Pendom’ and ‘Pencildom’

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    [Posted on L&P on Feb 16, 2012 and May 31, 2013.]         There’s a lot of snobb ery in pen collecting.  Some collectors l...
April 25, 2015

A Parker Duofold press filler

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[Posted on L&P on Nov 3, 2012.]         Here’s a very ordinary, well-worn, red-celluloid, Canadian-made Parker Duofold “Special” .  A “S...
April 22, 2015

Button Fillers, and Twist Fillers

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, and the duo-fold filler.     [Posted on L&P on Feb 6-14, 2006.]         No, I don’t want to revisit the old saw that the Parker “...
April 19, 2015

An Earlier Waterman’s Jointless

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, probably never produced.             US patent no. 698,882 was issued to Lewis E. Waterman, Apr 29, 1902, after his death in 1901, ...
April 16, 2015

The ‘Ne Plus Ultra’ Of Pens

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  He adverted that, “The Pen is the ‘Tongue of the World’”, but he should have said “The Pen is the Tongue of the Mind”. — Ce...
April 13, 2015

The Ironic Mark

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    , an emoticon. The above emoticon face is set in Garamond typeface, but the face of the text below is set in Georgia typeface. [...
April 07, 2015

The Origin of the Word ‘Nib’

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  MacKinnon’s stylograph, and . . .         The word “pen” comes metaphorically from “penna”, the Latin word for “feather”, or “q...