If you want a sterling silver pen, your options are limited — and they’re mostly pricey.
Pilot makes a range called ‘Silvern’, which is very nice, but I’m excluding those models from here because there is no way they’re solid silver: they’re simply too light.
So your options are some of the silver pens from… Continue reading
Month: September 2020 (Page 2 of 2)
Remember I said that ‘heritage’ was a trend to watch? Well, alongside last week’s Esterbrook JR, here’s another example of that trend in action: the Perfecta, by a reborn Tibaldi.
Tibaldi, like many Italian brands, has bounced around ownership and rebooted its portfolio numerous times over the decades. But the important thing is that the… Continue reading
Heritage? Handle with care…
When the Estie was launched a couple of years ago as ‘America’s original, reborn’, there was really nothing about it that evoked the ‘original’ Esterbrook pens. Although the Esterbrook name was displayed proudly, the emphasis was very much on the ‘reborn’ part of the slogan.
From the first time I handled… Continue reading