This pen grabbed me from the first photo I saw of it, and I’m happy to say it’s even better in person.
After a series of Scottish-themed releases, and after many releases celebrating British luminaries like Nightingale and Churchill, Shakespeare and Dickens, Onoto’s release of the American-themed Sequoyah came as a bit of a surprise… Continue reading
Tag: gold
Where else can you get a brand new, German-made, gold-nibbed piston filler for £129?
On these attributes, the Cleo Skribent Classic’s core value proposition is pretty unassailable.
And it has a lot else going for it, too.
Comfort-wise, there’s a long, long section with plenty of room for your fingers.
If you hold really far… Continue reading
As is my way, I went to Japan with an exhaustively researched shopping list. I knew which items I wanted to investigate, I knew where was likely to stock them, and I knew roughly how much they were going to cost. But I still gave myself a few surprises.
Inks
Tokyo is the home of… Continue reading
The Platinum President (PTB-20000P) is one of those pens that nobody knows about. Its value proposition is simple: it’s a slightly fancier, larger version of the 3776, with a more western-tuned nib, now in 18k gold. The only downside, on paper, is that it lacks the 3776’s wonderful sealing cap, but in all other respects… Continue reading
I thought the Graf von Faber-Castell Classic was very overpriced. Comparing it against my other (and only) Graf, the Intuition Platino Ebony, it’s tiny, skinny, more conventional — a separate section, a standard converter, a tiny nib.
The family resemblance is unmistakable, of course.
The metal flared cap, the curving clip, the fluted wood barrel,… Continue reading
It would be a lie to say I knew nothing about Cleo Skribent before unboxing this pen. Several of my United Inkdom colleagues have written about the brand and a few well-known UK retailers now stock it. But, as with a few other brands that have recently garnered some attention — like Diplomat — Cleo… Continue reading