Visconti Rembrandt Firenze Orange Calligraphy Set

Visconti Rembrandt Firenze Orange Calligraphy Set comes in a nice oversize hard board box that you can display it on your table.

It comes with everything you need to start your calligraphy practice. It even comes with two pen holders.

The Visconti Rembrandt calligraphy set comes in two version, and five colors. There are two and three nibs set verions. The two nibs set only comes in orange. The three nibs set comes in red, black, ivory and blue.

Sailor “KAI” The Sea at Dawn Limited Edition

The Sailor Kai Limited Edition is painted by the same artisan as the Sailor Kurenai (Crimson Red) Limited Edition launched in 2012.

Similarly to the Sailor Kurerai Limited Edtion, The Urushi Maki-e Artist Wataru Kurotobi san painted an abstract image of the dawn of the blue ocean.

This is not a new maki-e technique which maki-e artist Wataru Kurotobi san created.

Rumours, Rumours SAILOR Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士) Limited Edition

For those manga fan fountain pen lovers out there, Sailor Japan will be launching Leiji Matsumoto Limited Edition this month.

He is the artist behind the popular manga like Galaxy Express (银河铁道999), Battle Spaceship Yamato (宇宙战舰大和号), Captain  Herlock (宇宙海盗王哈罗克) and others.

Visconti Salvador Dali Dance of Time I Limited Edition (薩爾瓦多·達利 時間之舞)

I am not a big fun of Visconti fan after some unpleasant incident in the past, but I couldn’t resist not adding the Visconti Surrealist Collection, Salvador Dali Dance of Time I to my collection. Visconti work with Benjamin Levi of the Stratton Foundation to pay tribute to Salvador Dali. Benjamin Levi is a well known collector among the collectors for his expert knowledge on Dali’s work.

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.

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.

 

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.

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.