England v Italy

10 Saturday Jul 2021

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Conway Stewart, Delta, fountain pen, Helix Oxford, John Twiss, leonardo officiano italliana, musings, Nettuno, onoto, SCRIBO, visconti, Yard-o-Led

You would have thought there was an important football coming up tomorrow (soccer to those of you from across the Atlantic), so for a bit of fun I gathered together a handful of pens to represent each side, along with suitable inks (with caveats). Some of these pens were already in my daily rotation/desk set, and some were an excuse to use up some samples I have taking up space.

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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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Pens that feel ‘just right’

20 Thursday Jun 2019

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fountain pen, leonardo officiano italliana, momento zero, musings, onoto, Onoto Magna, Onoto Magna Classic, pilot, Pilot Custom 823, SCRIBO, SCRIBO Feel

We’ve all been there. We’ve held an item, a gadget, a widget, a tool, in our hands and it has just felt right, perfect for the task, comfortable and comforting. It may be cheap, it may be expensive. It may be bespoke, it may be off the shelf, there are no hard and fast rules, and like all emotive mysteries, it’s hard to explain just why it works so well for one person, yet may not for another. Continue reading →

Leonardo Officina Italiana Momento Zero Hawaii

19 Friday Apr 2019

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fountain pen, italy, leonardo, leonardo officiano italliana, momento zero

The Momento Zero was the first pen released by Leonardo Officina Italiana under their own banner. An affordable resin pen in a number of attractive colours, all with a good level of chatoyance. Over time more resins were used and a celluloid piston filler with a gold nib also came in to being. Now a year or two down the line, with a new similarly priced model, the Furore, coming out, a number of new versions of the Momento Zero have been produced including the Hawaii, a multi-coloured pen based on a hotchpotch of previously used resins.
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