Author: chawm

I am a fountain pen fanatic. Collecting for close to three decades now. Write mostly about the pens that i have the pleasure of owning along with various issues related to inks, accessories and the wonderful hobby of collecting.

Nino Marino and a yellow rose of a fountain pen for Christmas  – Howard Cunix

Yellow. It is the colour of happiness, and optimism, of enlightenment and creativity, sunshine and spring. Yellow roses are supposed to symbolise friendship and are often given to loved ones as a way to bring joy and cheer. Religious iconography from around the world are full of yellow hued symbolism and I

 

In Flanders Fields – Onoto to immortalise the poem with a LE fountain pen

In Flanders Fields, written by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, to be paid tribute to through a LE Onoto pen. World War I battlefields in Belgium and France are often called “Flanders Fields” in English. Red poppies, that grew wild on the graves of fallen soldiers, have since become one