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Monthly Archives: May 2020

Leonardo Messenger

29 Friday May 2020

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fountain pen, Italian, leonardo, leonardo messenger, leonardo officiano italliana

In the last few years Leonardo Officina Italiana (to use their full name) have been building quite a reputation through their Momento Zero, Furore, and Momento Zero Grande models.  All are of the same basic design with the differences being in the finials and size.  Now in 2020 they have released a new model, the Messenger, with just 366 examples being made in each of five translucent colours.

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Pelikan Hub 2020 Cancelled

27 Wednesday May 2020

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With the present global Covid-19 situation, rather than announcing the new Pelikan Hubs event and opening registration, Pelikan have taken the sensible approach and not take a guess at what things will be like in September with the result they are cancelling this year’s event.

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The Curidas Tale of Three Retractable Fountain Pens

21 Thursday May 2020

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capless, lamy, lamy dialog, lamy dialog 3, musings, pilot capless, pilot vanishing point, platinum, Platinum curidas, vanishing point

I’m guilty.  I jumped on the bandwagon of fountain pen fashion.  I bought a Platinum Curidas in green with a medium nib.  To be honest, when the original pictures came out my interest was piqued, after all I have to others, with which I will lightly compare it, the Lamy Dialog 3 and the Pilot Capless (nee Vanishing Point).

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A Tale of Two Delta Dolcevitas

15 Friday May 2020

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Delta, Delta Dolcevita, Delta Dolcevita Frederico, Italian, musings

When is a Dolcevita not a Dolcevita, when it’s a Frederico, or is it?  Towards the end of Delta, in 2014, a range of ‘cut price’ pens was offered through a partner site, Martemodena, both direct from their website and through certain auction platforms.  Visually these were very similar to the originals, so how was the price brought down?  In the last eight months I’ve been fortunate to pick up the stantuffo (piston filler) version of both the Dolcevita and the Dolcevita Frederico allowing me to compare.

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Nettuno 1911 Black Sands Fountain Pen

08 Friday May 2020

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fountain pen, Italian, Maiora, Nettuno, Netuno 1911

There is something about Italian engineering that pulls on the hearts strings and overrides the head when it comes to purchasing.  It was Bertone, Farina, or Gandini who came out with the quote that you can either design beautiful cars or you can design reliable cars, but you can’t design both at the same time*.  At times it can seem the same in the pen world, but in many respects we are all the better for it, or at least our hearts keep telling us it is so…
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OMAS 360 ‘New’

01 Friday May 2020

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fountain pen, Italian, OMAS, OMAS 360, OMAS 360 New

As covered in my previous piece on the OMAS 360 Vintage I mentioned about the ‘New’ version of the 360.  This was launched in 2007 with a more modern look, and arguably as an entry pen in to the OMAS brand.  With its angled triangular finials, flattened clip, new OMAS O on the cap, it certainly looked the part, but it was also divisive amongst OMAS fans and from what I can tell the model was dropped again just four or five years later.

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