Montegrappa Muhammad Ali Limited Edition

Montegrappa pays tribute to boxing legend, Muhammad Ali with the exclusive "Icons Tribute to Muhammad Ali" pen.

This is the Icons pen before Bruce Lee Limited Edition.

Namiki Yukari Double Goldfish

The Namiki Yukari double goldfish is the most popular maki-e pen of this size. It has been used by many book authors in their pen books.

The goldfish is one of the most popular and difficult theme to execute for artisan.

There are many artisan who has crafted the goldfish, but no artisan done it better than those at Kokko Kai Japan.

Dunhill Namiki Maki-e Smoking Pipe

What happen when two top brands come togather to produce a product?

The reason is one fine product that asked for double the price when they each produce their product individually.

The collabation between Japan company Namiki and Britain Alfred Dunhill dates back to the late 1920, during the "art deco" period.

Sheaffer Nostalgia Sterling Silver Ink Blotter

Ink blotter is one victim of modern technology. It totally disappeared from our writing desk. This Sheaffer Nostalgia sterling silver blotter (model 8111) was made in England back in the mid '80.

The production stopped in early '90, about 1992.

The nostalgia design was introduce in the '70 for a fountain pen. The success of the Nostalgia fountain pen pushing Sheaffer to make manufacture match desk accessories using the same design - blotter, letter opener, and ink-well.

The size of these blotter is about 2 1/2''H., 4 3/8''L, 2''W.

The simple design is a reflection of the life style in the '70. Life is not as stressful and complex.

For the year 2011, we wish that our plain love for writing instrument will grow stronger, less complex and this world a better place for you and me till the end of time regardless how the technology advance.

Happy Valentine Day!

Montegrappa ICONS Dragon 2010 Bruce Lee Limited Edition

November 27 2010 was Bruce Lee 70th birthday. Montegrappa remake the 1995 Dragon Limited Edition in red celluloid with different clip and cap top to honours Bruce Lee, an American born chinese who remains globally popular 37 years after his death.

Bruce Lee was not a only a Kung Fu Master and actor. He also promote Chinese culture indirectly.
Lee almost single-handedly sparked a surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West in the 1970s.

There was a event last month (January) to pay tribute to this martial art ICON of the East at the Marina Bay Sandsm Singapore. It is the offical local launch of the Monetegrappa Second pen in ICON series.

This pen is a remake of the 1995 Montegrappa Dragon Limited Edition wth a different.

What are the differences?

Namiki Oriental Zodiac Rabbit

In less 12 hours, we will be welcoming the Year of the Rabbit. We wishes all Chinese across the world a Happy Chinese New Year.

Hayashi-san uses the togidashi maki-e technique to craft the 4th oriental zodiac animal, rabbit. On the barrel, master artisan Hayahi-san painted 2 white rabbits riding on golden cloud.

This maki-e pen come complete with a 18K nib, and present in the Standard Namiki wooden box.

Rumours, Rumours ... Pelikan M1005 Demonstrator Special Edition

For demostrator lovers, no collection is complete without the upcoming Peilikan M1005 Demonstrator.

You read it correctly, M1005!

A demostrator that is the same size as the Souveran M1000, the biggest pens in the Souveran series. This is called the Monster of the demostrator or The Demostrator.

It  is completely transparent. It displaying all of the internal workings of Pelikans differential piston mechanism. You don't need a good eye to view internal of the fountain pen as every components is bigger.

Every piece of the production machine used to make this Monster Demostator must be thoroughly cleaned so that not a single colour particle remains, in order to achieve the completely transparent barrel.
The hand crafted nib is 18 carat gold and coated with rhodium to give a silver impression. All of the rings and clip are made of 24 carat gold and plated with palladium, completing the silver finish to the pen

Cash tight. No worry. It will only be available in May, 2011.

Starting saving now and get yourself a The Demostrator of the decade.

Namiki Traditonal Toys - Hagoita

The Chinese New Year is about a week away. A lot of us are busy doing spring cleaning.

When we first saw the Namiki Nippon Art Traditional Toys Hagoita, it bring back some of good old memory when I was a boys. Hanetsuki was a game played by the girl during the New Year.

Rumours, Rumours ... Sailor 1911 Profit 30th Anniversary

Sailor 1911 Profit was sucessfully launched in 1981. Till date, it is still one of the best selling, and well loved fountain pen.

Sailor is launching a Brier wood Edition of Profit to market this significiant moment. The cap trim will etched with the memorial mark and serial number. This pen will only come in medium size 21k nib presented in a wooden box with a bottle of ink. This Brier wood pens is limited to 1000 pieces world wide. It will be available in March 2011.

No futher information about the ink bottle when we posted this blog.

Rumours, Rumours ... Luxury Pens Sales

Many thanks to Joel C. for sharing this information.