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.

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.

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.

Rumours, Rumors Salior Endangered Mammals Bengal Tiger Limited Edition

The Sailor Bengal Tiger is the last piece of the Sailor Endangered Mammals Limited Editon or the 2012 Limited Edition of the 88 inidividually numbered limited edition.

It is finished by the same maki-e artisan of the previous two endangered manmals limited edition pen, the gaint panda and African elephant.

Master maki-e artisan Nishihara again painted three tigers on this Sailor Endangered Mammals Limited Edition fountain pen.

Rumours, Rumours Montegrappa Snake 2013 Limited Edition

Montegrappa using their well known die-cast overlays skill craft the stunning beauty Snake 2013 Limited Edition writing instruments.

There is a Chinese saying that  a Snake in the house is a good omen.

This is because the snake will not let his family stave because he is such a great mediator, making him a good at business, and a snake would be willing to sacrifice his possessions to pay for his family's food.

Sailor Endangered Mammals The African Elephant Limited Edition

The African Elephant Limited Edition is the second of the Sailor Endangered Mammals series. The first limited edition pen is the Giant Panda Limited Edition which was launched last May 2012.

While we feel it s a endangered mammals is good theme, the artwork in the Sailor Endangered Mammals have not bring out the best of master artisan Nishihara-san. In my opinion, the Salior Endangered Mammals Limited Edition show each master artisan has their favor artwork, and elephant look does not look like master artisan Nishihara favor.

Caran d’Ache Buddha 2013 Limited Edition

Last November, we shared the news that Caran d'Arche launched a Buddha Edition 2013.Last month, the actual writing instrument landed. We took a few pictures to share it with you, and you will noticed the actual Caran d'Ache Buddha 2013 Limited Edition is much nicer than the poster.

We were told last year that the Caran d'Ache Buddha 2013 Edition fountain pen was limited to 88 pieces worldwide with each individually numbered, but . . .

Omas Arte Italiana Noir Collection

I never really like black pens, as I find it boring . . .

... when I saw the new Omas Arte Italiana Noir Collection, I changed my mind, immediately ordered 3 pieces of the writing instruments.

The Arte Italiana Noir Collection is made of well known black Cotton Resin.

Wing Sun (永生) Model 52

In a few more hours, we are going to say bye bye to the Year of the Dragon, and welcome the Year of the snake.

Today is a good opportunity to feature one last dragon pen, before we welcome a new lunar year.

While doing our spring cleaning, we found a China made Wing Sun (永生) model 52 pen. This is a budget pen which we purchased during a visit in China a few years back.

Lamy Safari China Edition

Our foreign friend came to Singapore to celebrate his wife birthday over the weekend. He also bring me a bring Lamy Safari China Edition for me.

I fallen in love with this color combined when I saw the pictures on KMPN blog. Both my favor colors are on the same pen. A dream Lamy Safari for me.

The pen cap is finished with yellow cross top.