Waldmann fountain pens – the purest precious metals, the height of craftsmanship and a search for excellence that is eternal! Dear friends of the fountain pen fraternity, obsessed with precious resins and ebonites as you are, allow me to take you on a trip down sterling silver lane – the
Kenro Industry’s key man – Bryan Hulser is a legend in the contemporary world of writing instruments. Not only is he the ultimate sales person capable of highlighting the USP of a brand to an extent that it reaches the must-have state of being, but is also capable of recounting
Tamenuri reaches its apogee in fountain pens created by AP Limited Editions – stark in their simplicity, numinous as the ultimate truth. Literally, the Japanese term “Kintsugi” translates to mean “golden joinery”. It is also, often, uttered as “Kintsukuroi”, which means “golden repairs”. On a very basic level, the art
Era and her little friends are out playing. As they play the games that we have all played in our childhood, Prof Harshada Bapat Shintre and Prof Yashwant Pitkar take them, and us readers, on a journey of enlightenment, gently introducing architectural terms that are so ubiquitous that their meanings
Brick & Mortar store supporters advance five reasons in their support, still fountain pen lovers are increasingly buying online, why? Time, we went Click & Collect? I am a compulsive pen, ink and stationery buyer. I buy fountain pens when I am happy. I buy fountain pens when I
Meet Anil Thaman, the 64-year-old-youngster who has stunned the disbelievers by clinching the second space in the World handwriting Contest of 2021 organised by the reigning diva of dancing letters Kate Gladstone. As he puts it himself: “to be apart from home and family and move to a different country
Indian Fountain Pen design challenge – Prof Y Pitkar sounds the bugle. But are we ready to pick up the gauntlet? Here is a question. When was the last time you saw an Indian fountain pen manufacturer come to the market with a new fountain pen, designed and created
Lamy 2000. Mention the name and I can go on yapping forever – Bauhaus, Makrolon, form-follows-function, German Engineering excellence, the height of writing pleasure … for, there is a strange bond that ties the Lamy 2000 to me. We were both born in 1966. And now Lamy has come out
Frank Limper is a Federalist in the real sense of the term – one who has set up a distinctive relationship of parity between two levels of Fountain Pen fanaticism, as a collector and a retailer; just like the federalist system does in terms of governance. Here he talks at
Bourbon. The House of Bourbons were a European dynasty of French origin. How they lent their name across the continent to America’s most potent brew is however, another story. Suffice to say, distilled from a mash made primarily of corn, Bourbon, to the world at large, is the American for
Writeway: the ecommerce site that serious hobbyists and lovers of fine writing, not to mention fountainpen and ink fanatics were waiting for! The last two years have witnessed a steady shift of consumer preferences for contact-less, digitised shopping, as more and more people have opted for ecommerce. This shift has
Dhar Brothers and the story of Calcutta’s brush with fountain pen making excellence – fact, fiction or folklore? Imagine that you are so well known for your skills that the Commissioner of Calcutta Police sends his prized fountain pen to you for some repair work. Mind you, this is a
