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Once more it is the first Friday in November and that means International Fountain Pen Day.
Continue reading06 Friday Nov 2026
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Once more it is the first Friday in November and that means International Fountain Pen Day.
Continue reading30 Friday Oct 2026
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Delta, Delta Rally Passion, Italian, Italian Pen, Maiora, Nettuno
The manner in which Delta was reborn could have come straight out of Italian opera with two of the three original families seeking to keep the name. In the end Nino Marino was able to add it to his Maiora and Nettuno 1911 brands under his Maiora Pen Company. Since then Delta has been producing pens not only in the style of the old Dolce Vita but also new and interesting designs such as this.
Continue reading22 Tuesday Sep 2026
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There are some on forums and the Facebook Pelikan Hub website who feel I have been a defender of Pelikan else a shill, but I am not as I have only defended them where the fault lay with people not reading the text (such as the limit on numbers) else not filling out the form properly. But that is in the past. How do I feel now there is just a few days to go till the event.
Continue reading29 Saturday Aug 2026
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I actually first posted this in two groups on Facebook, Fountain Pens UK and Fountain Pens are Inkredible, but have also decided to post this piece here to widen the audience of my views, especially as many of you who are regular readers (or were until I hit a creative wall near the start of the year) are from outside the UK.
Continue reading28 Saturday Feb 2026
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A bit of a late post as it was a bit of a late decision, but I have decided to try selling part of my collection at the London Pen Show tomorrow (Sunday the 1st of March).
Continue reading14 Wednesday Jan 2026
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Shows how slow I’ve been with posting recently that it has taken me two weeks to give festive greetings. It is a new year, hopefully one better from the last for most out there and for for which I have been traditional with resolutions. Forgetting to even think of any 🙂
Continue reading07 Friday Nov 2025
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Once more it is the first Friday in November and that means International Fountain Pen Day.
Continue reading07 Tuesday Oct 2025
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Yes you read that correctly. For those that are not aware this weekend’s London Pen Show will be over two days.
Continue reading30 Tuesday Sep 2025
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This will be because you live in the UK and I use imgur.com to host them (even with a WordPress subscription I only have limited space).
Continue reading21 Saturday Dec 2024
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Some of you may have wondered what’s happened with me in recent times, especially as I was aiming and managing to post weekly and did so for a couple of years. Well do not worry this blog is still very much live, I just tend to be busier these days.
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