News — vintage pen

I sometimes describe a pen as one that 'makes a statement', usually large and impressive pens or something quite quirky. A friend recently sent me a photograph of the ultimate pen in this respect, and it was, most certainly, making a statement. Here is Lek Walesa signing the Gdansk agreement with a giant ballpoint pen decorated with a picture of the newly elected Pope John Paul ll, (Karol Wojtyla, former archbishop of Krakow) It, no doubt, was a statement!  After the fall of communism ten years later Lek was elected president of Poland and won a Nobel Peace Prize, a true working...

Occasionally an item comes along that oozes quality and charm, here is one of them. Each of the three Silver sections are clearly hallmarked and have the warm, tactile feeling only found in Sterling silver. Although I used a dip pen, of much inferior quality, at school eons ago, I seem to have lost the skill, so I'm enjoying retraining with this georgeous set.

I bought this from a collector, it just looked like an interesting old pen. It looks like a 1930 ish lever filler.     But it appears as if it might be an eye dropper conversion.  It has a see through window, a screw on blind cap at the end of the barrel but it also has a press bar ink filler.  When you look through the ink window all you see is the aluminium sleeve, not the ink level.  I can see no other reason why it has an ink window and a blind cap.  The pen fills well and...