24 Friday Dec 2021
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It’s been a weird year 2021. The global pandemic still in effect, but with restrictions being relaxed in many places (well until the Omicron variant arrived). In the UK we saw the return of the pen show along with the introduction of various new models, yet at the same time many people still preferred to stay away and be safe.
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What is better to most petrol heads than one Pininfarina designed car? Two Pininfarina designed cars. Perhaps the same may be the case with the products of their Segno subsidiary and perhaps I should be nervous if they expand their range of fountain pens, for having bought a PF Two on International Fountain Pen Day, come the Black Friday week and a PF One followed its way in to my collection.
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I musty admit I had been contemplating trying a Kaweco Student for quite a while, though always from afar as I knew no one who owned one (as far as I am aware) and at pen shows traders just brought variations on the Sport and Lilliput models. Fountain Pen Day and a discount at Cult Pens gave me the excuse I had been looking for and while the ‘music’ range was more expensive than the base two pens, the 20s Jazz ticked all the right boxes.
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