Old money is inheritance passed down generations, a class of people who have maintained their wealth over time. These are people, as opposed to the nouveau riche: those that have most likely come into money within their own generation. Old money reeks of class, a subtle refinement that quietly frowns
There are broadly four kinds of people who buy fountain pens. I know that I am about to commit an unpardonable sin by writing what I have set out to write in this piece, for I will be generalising things to a point where it will be rankling at the
Onoto, everything good that the Empire stood for, ever, in a fountain pen that defies time and continues to evoke glories past! The year 1905 was an interesting one. Arthur Conan Doyle, bowing to public sentiment, was scripting the Return of Sherlock Holmes. Mata Hari was giving her first dance
Croxley Pens from Dickinson – as pucca as a sahib can be, stiff upper lip, understated elegance et all. British fountainpens do not, in general, stir the kind of excitement in stylophiles that German, Italian or even Japanese pens do. A pity, actually, considering the glorious legacy that British pens
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
Soon it will be upon us. The day of whispered, passionate promises, a dark, crisp evening of gasped breaths and pouted lips. A night for candlelight, for shadows – for love. It will be a day when all romance is unhinged and goes rolling through the dark streets like a
400 years ago, the Bard had a vision. In his play “The Tragedies of Hamlet”, he made his vision clear and tried to foretell the arriving of ONOTO. However, this famous quote “To be O’NOTO be” had never been edited correctly by many printers, who did not really understand Shakespeare’s
The story of Kosuri Venkata Ratnam meeting Gandhiji and Ratnam pens (dated 1932-35) has been documented extremely well. Ratnam pens are celebrated. When President Ram Nath Kovind visited the Pablo Neruda Museum in Santiago on 31st March 2019, the press release by Rashtrapati Bhavan stated, “He gifted a special pen to the
Onoto, Oxford and Cambridge, the quintessentially British search for excellence! Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest universities in the United Kingdom, according to popular lore, are bitterly pitted against each other – a rivalry, raconteurs add gleefully, that dates back centuries. Perhaps the fact that both were founded about 800
Fountain Pen Addiction? Here, take some Ink! I am an addict and my dope is fountain pens. I talk to Montblancs. I caress Benus. I whisper complements to Soenneckens. I raise toasts to Swans. My days are obsessively, compulsively, disorderly strung around fountain pens and at night, I either have
Opus 88 Picnic – no hanging rocks here. Many people do not know that Michael Hsu, in his earlier avatar, had been an OEM producer, supplying parts to many high-end writing instruments and had decades of experience to back the Opus 88 brand when it was finally launched. Needless to
An Onoto Cambridge Pen is the perfect gift to acknowledge the momentous achievement of graduating from Cambridge University. A pen that will be treasured for a lifetime, and cherished by future generations. The University of Cambridge Range An exclusive range of pens was created by Onoto for the University of Cambridge to commemorate its 800th
