Sunday, March 24, 2013

Wolf Design Pen Display Case

Recently, I upgraded my office pen case to Wolf Design 12 pieces pen display case. The pen case exterior is wrapped with soft pebble faux leather with gold foil dot trim.

The drawer comes with two brushed brass pulls, which give it a very elegance look. Just love the look.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Rumours, Rumours Namiki Kachimushi (Dragonfly) Limited Edition 2013


This year (2013), Namiki Annual Limited Edition will be available in April. The theme is our favor insect Kachimushi. Kachimishi is an ancient word for Dragonfly.

In Asia, the dragonfly symbolizes summer and autumn and am admired and respected all over, so much so that the Samurai use it as a symbol of power, agility and best of all, Victory.

It is also also associate with prosperity, harmony and as a good luck charm.

The Namiki Kachimushi Dragonfly Limited Edition is limited to 150 individually numbered worldwide. It will be available locally from April 2013.
 

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sailor KOP Winter Under The Star Limited Edition

Maki-e artisan Moroiki Ikki well known artist whose works have been invited almost every year to the well-known annual Japan Traditional Art and Craft exhibition.

Sailor Co. Japan and Morriki Ikki collaborated to create the "Season Under Star" project. At the time of writing, we do not know if this project will consist of four pens to show case the four seasons or it will just one.

We asked but received no feedback till date. We suspect the deciding factor for the next pen(s) is the sales performance of this Sailor King Of Pen (KOP) Winter Under The Star Limited Edition.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Montegrappa Year of Snake 2013 Limited Edition

Nicholas Yeo and I managed to took a few pictures of the Montegrappa Year of Snake Limited Edition when the pen landed last week.

Nicholas Yeo excellent photography skills really bring out the true beauty of the Montegrappa Year of Snake Limited Edition.

See it here for yourself.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Private Reserve Ink

For those fountain pen users who are looking for Private Reserve ink locally, there is another new venue for it. Fook Hing Trading decided to bring back Private Reserve ink for the local community.

The first shipment landed last week, and we managed to pick up a few of our favor colors.
The new shipment include the Private Reserve new highlighter and Invincible Black ink.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Namiki Vanishing Point Minamo Raden Edition

Recently, Namiki launched Minamo raden and Stripe raden maki-e Vanishing point. The pictures shown is the Minamo raden maki-e vanishing point. This is not a limited edition.

With this new raden maki-e vanishing point, it make the first raden maki-e a good collector value from price point perspective.

I think the Minamo raden is the nicer of the two.