Every pen collector seems to offer their own apologetic on pens and why they collect. Perhaps we think pens are such an odd choice that the hobby needs […]
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BENU Sparkle
Parker 45 Fountain Pen
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BENU Sparkle
The Benu company is an Armenian upstart, when you look at the scale of time in the fountain pen industry. Their pens are brightly colored and fanciful, and […]
Parker 45 Fountain Pen
Although I’m not specifically collecting Parker pens [*], I have an association in my mind with this design being a “real pen”, the ubiquitous fountain pen. That made […]
Black & Orange Collection
The Boo Pens When I said I was going to collect black and orange fountain pens, one of my followers said, “Oh, Hallowe’en colors. You could call it […]
Masterpiece
The Montblanc Miesterstück was the first premium fountain pen I ever heard of. A customer of mine was self-employed and I asked him what he did. Somehow this […]
Collection Part II
The Next Phase: A Theme Emerges The next phase in my collector journey is to get thematic. Not because I’m following the advice of YouTubers who tell new […]
Fountain Pens – Collection Part I
Because I’m not a connoisseur collector of anything, my collections tend to come and go. I’d call myself a catalog-er more than a collector, meaning that I tend […]
My Desk Sets
My grandfather, when I knew him, was an independent insurance agent. His office was two front rooms in his home on Main Street in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. In […]