Duo-cart means "It's a Match". Perhaps Aurora puts these fountain pens on the market in two colours, one for her and one for him? That might be true if you are traditionally set, gold & red would be for her and silver and black for him. The romantic idea is that you send each other [...]

Most Japanese fountain pens are very boringly shaped, you can choose from endless quantities of black cigars. But the writing quality is often exquisite. If you can get anything other than a black Japanese fountain pen, then as far as I'm concerned it immediately becomes interesting. The Platinum 3776 Century With the 3776 Century, Platinum [...]

At the 29th edition of the penshow in Tilburg there were many desirable fountain pens as usual . But soon I noticed that Dennis of La Couronne du Comte, my regular dealer, made me an offer that I could not refuse. A beautiful Nakaya, red-brown in coloured with a black undertone, for a more than [...]

Sometimes I dream that I'm in a fountain pen shop in the late thirties, last century. I look around and see display cases with brand new Parkers in the background. The ones with the familiar stripes that seem to be a silhouette of a modern apartment building. Full of expectation and a beating heart I [...]

For the rich and famous, fountain pens are made that are no longer affordable for ordinary people. In the nineties this development slowly started with special editions of Montblanc such as the writers edition. But also the Italian and Japanese fountain pen manufacturers started with special editions about historical, religious and mythical figures. My own [...]