ScriBo Write Here Africa

12 Friday May 2023

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SCRIBO, ScriBo Write Here, Scrittura Bolognese, Write Here

Come the March London Pen Show, spring was in the air and that meant the launch of the annual Write Here limited edition fountain pen, produced for them by Scrittura Bolognese. This new release had been teased back last autumn, when the prototype was shown at the October London Pen Show for feedback. A month or two later and Write Here started a competition for a name. I can’t remember what I submitted but the big cat patterning does mean Africa was most suitable winning suggestion.

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ScriBo Write Here

19 Friday Aug 2022

Posted by dapprman in Pens

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SCRIBO, SCRIBO Feel, ScriBo Write Here, Scrittura Bolognese, Write Here

The fountain pen community was shocked back in November 2015 when the Chinese company O-Luxe announced they were closing one of their brands, OMAS, with the doors finally being shut in January 2016. Later that year, out of the ashes, a phoenix rose. Scrittura Bolognese. October 2017 and the first ‘regular’ ScriBo pen was released. A store only collaboration with Write Here of Shrewsbury.

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ScriBo Write Here Tropea with 1.4mm Stub Nib

27 Friday May 2022

Posted by dapprman in Pens

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SCRIBO, ScriBo Write Here, Stub Nib, Write Here

This review will really focus on the nib and gloss over on the pen. Until I started to put pen to paper (sounds better than key press to WordPress) I did not realise I am yet to review the ScriBo Write Here, despite it being the first mainstream offering from Scrittura Bologenese, and despite me buying one of the first editions just after this store exclusive arrived off the flight from Italy at the October 2017 London Pen Show. A more in depth review will follow, meanwhile this piece is all about the nib. A ScriBo stub. 1.4mm width of tipping on a rhodium plated nib with its heritage going back to the old OMAS days and made on the same machines.

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