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Show Your Summer Style
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Show Your Summer Style

The newest Visconti Homo Sapiens, Iris Garden, is a tribute to the beautiful irises that bloom each spring in Florence, Italy's Iris Garden.

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10+ mins  |
June 2024
Good Made Better Keeps Getting Better
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Good Made Better Keeps Getting Better

SUZANNE C. LEE tests Dan Keller's wood and metal reading and writing accessories and finds her childhood dream desk come to fruition.

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6 mins  |
June 2024
Layers of Talent: River City Pen Company
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Layers of Talent: River City Pen Company

With his skills in design and eye for details, Rich Paul crafts pens that are as beautiful as they are functional.

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6 mins  |
June 2024
Fathoming the Unfathomable
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Fathoming the Unfathomable

The new Kanilea Pen Co. Blue Moana fountain pen and Mau Loa cap band are inspired by the ocean's depths and universal interconnectivity.

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8 mins  |
June 2024
Truphae: Flexibility Is Key
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Truphae: Flexibility Is Key

This young pen shop is writing a new chapter in retail pen sales by finding unique ways to foster community.

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6 mins  |
June 2024
"Winter Counts:" Transforming Non-fiction into Fiction
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"Winter Counts:" Transforming Non-fiction into Fiction

Creative writing typically blends what we know and experience with what we invent and imagine.

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2 mins  |
June 2024
Swivodex, Sailors, and the Plastic Revolution: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part V
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Swivodex, Sailors, and the Plastic Revolution: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part V

The end of World War II ushered in a new era, with plastics technology opening the way to better and less costly products of all sorts.

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6 mins  |
June 2024
The Mystery of the Purloined Parkers
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The Mystery of the Purloined Parkers

What do G-men, mobsters, and tampons have in common? The two most epic fountain pen heists in history.

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5 mins  |
June 2024
The Other Articles of Impeachment
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The Other Articles of Impeachment

\"Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silent, on pain of imprisonment...\"

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5 mins  |
June 2024
The Road to Recovery
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The Road to Recovery

A recent trip to Wajima, Japan, by TACCIA's Shu-Jen Lin shows tragedy in the present but hope for the future.

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3 mins  |
June 2024
Stationery Fest 2024 Introduces a New Pen Show Concept
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Stationery Fest 2024 Introduces a New Pen Show Concept

Starting a new pen show is always a risky venture, but starting one in New York City, New York, is even riskier, especially when the pen show in question is not designed to be a pen show, per se—at least, not in the format we are used to.

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3 mins  |
June 2024
25 Years of the Levenger True Writer
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25 Years of the Levenger True Writer

The new Anniversary Origins collection celebrates the True Writer's silver anniversary, but its origins are over a century old.

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6 mins  |
April 2024
LAMY and uni Unite
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LAMY and uni Unite

The Japanese company behind the Uniball brand and Germany's LAMY are now partners.

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2 mins  |
April 2024
Wajima Earthquake: Lest We Forget
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Wajima Earthquake: Lest We Forget

The New Year's Day earthquake took lives and livelihoods. The future of Wajima lacquerware is at stake.

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4 mins  |
April 2024
Fontoplumo: Filling a Need
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Fontoplumo: Filling a Need

Frank van Krieken turned a hobby into a pen store, and he is spreading the gospel across the globe.

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5 mins  |
April 2024
Styling and Substance: Sheaffer and Sengbusch, and One or Two Others: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part IV
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Styling and Substance: Sheaffer and Sengbusch, and One or Two Others: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part IV

In the second installment of this series, we saw the R. Esterbrook Steel Pen Company get its start in the dip-less business.

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6 mins  |
April 2024
The Power of the Pen
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The Power of the Pen

A Veterans Administration program in Arkansas turns former warriors into pen makers.

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6 mins  |
April 2024
The White Dot Marks the Spot
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The White Dot Marks the Spot

Production by William Penn, distribution by Kenro: Sheaffer is back to basics.

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6 mins  |
April 2024
Manu's Pen Nebula
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Manu's Pen Nebula

The Pen Family represents Emmanuel Caltagirone's personal journey. Let's take a short trip through time and space.

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8 mins  |
April 2024
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part III
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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part III

Once dip-less desk sets became entrenched in the business world, they naturally proliferated as more companies got into the game.

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6 mins  |
February 2024
The Inkwell and the Imagination
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The Inkwell and the Imagination

A history of the inkwell as a source of inspiration.

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6 mins  |
February 2024
From EDC to OMG!
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From EDC to OMG!

The Visconti Year of the Dragon limited edition collection pays tribute to the Chinese five-clawed dragon, which was reserved solely as representative of the Emperor and nobility.

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7 mins  |
February 2024
Love Story
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Love Story

AP Limited Editions celebrates its 10th anniversary with pens in honor of its deep U.S. connection. Originally published in Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 2016).

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5 mins  |
February 2024
The Magic Kingdom at Orlando's Sam Flax
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The Magic Kingdom at Orlando's Sam Flax

In central Florida, a writing instruments and art supplies store carries on the Flax pen shop legacy.

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5 mins  |
February 2024
Piloting My Way To Dromgoole's
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Piloting My Way To Dromgoole's

Rice Village in Houston, Texas, is always buzzing with holiday shoppers in the weeks leading up to Christmas, so it was no surprise to me that not a single parking spot was available in front of family-owned Dromgoole's Fine Writing Instruments and Stationery store for its holiday shopping event on December 9, 2023.

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1 min  |
February 2024
The Ohio Pen Show
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The Ohio Pen Show

Begun more than 25 years ago, the Columbus, Ohio, Pen Show is one of the most respected among all North American pen shows.

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1 min  |
February 2024
These Snakes Don't Bite
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These Snakes Don't Bite

The new BENU Viper Collection finds inspiration in the sinuous bodies of three snakes.

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5 mins  |
February 2024
A Fountain Pen Scribe's Ode to a Typewriter
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A Fountain Pen Scribe's Ode to a Typewriter

I stood there, just 15, clutching a $30 check from a magazine for something I'd written, the first ever for my writing, growing dizzy with images in my head of where I needed to be.

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5 mins  |
February 2024
Introducing LeatherLuxePH
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Introducing LeatherLuxePH

Raymund Nino Bumatay creates high-end leather pen cases with Filipino pride.

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4 mins  |
February 2024
Crafting the Divine
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Crafting the Divine

What's in a name? Paradise, when the name is Divine Pens Plus.

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5 mins  |
February 2024

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