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Sheaffer Legacy – Howard Cunix

chawm — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:45:52 +0000

Hello fountain pen friends! In 2022 when it was announced that Sheaffer Pen Company would be under new leadership and ownership, having been purchased by William Penn, the distinguished Retailer of top-of-the-line writing instruments, I was very happy to learn of this news—the iconic Sheaffer name and products were now in good hands. Nikhil Ranjan,

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Visconti Tuscan Hills – Renaissance of another kind

chawm — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:16:23 +0000

There is a certain intrinsic flamboyance about Italian design. Just like German pens are known for their engineering, Japanese pens are known for the finesse of their nibs, the Italian pens are known for the joie de verve they exude. Yes, I know I am at fault here for oversimplifying things – not all German

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The Kanwrite Emperor is here

chawm — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 07:38:40 +0000

The moment I saw the pen listed in the Kanwrite website, I had to buy it. And I must say that the initial experience was an excellent one. Placing the order was hassle free and the pen arrived exactly two days after the order was placed and the money transferred. Kudos Kanwrite. The box that

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Vermeil Souverän: as good as it gets

chawm — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 11:56:14 +0000

The Souverän is one who has sovereign power, as in to “be a sovereign “. It also refers to one who has a commanding knowledge of one’s field. There is, withour doubt a regal air about the term – its very phoenetics, is royal. The Souverän range of pens from Pelikan, I feel, could not

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Magna Carta unveils the Libertatum range in the DC Pen Show, USA.

chawm — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 16:05:08 +0000

Magna Carta, the homegrown brand from Jamnagar Gujarat, never ceases to amaze. It begins with their name itself and let us leave it at that. Then comes the ostentatiously crafted and outlandishly priced (by Indian standards of pen making) offerings from Magna Carta which have by now created a distinct, even fanatical fan following for

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Parker’s Golden Arrow – the Vacumatic – pen that heralded the end of the depression

chawm — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 04:19:58 +0000

The great depression had brought the roaring twenties to a cruel halt in the USA. Fountain pen sales, had plummeted, resulting in a number of pen brands going irretrievably under. The big four – Parker, Sheaffer, Waterman and Eversharp – were battered, with some facing sales losses of upwards of 50 percent, to give an

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Parker Sonnet Fougére: Parfums de Coeur

chawm — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 05:22:26 +0000

It had originated in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in Palermo, Sicily. Giacomo da Lentini, credited with having brought it into being and in its earliest forms, it was restricted to expressing courtly love. However, by the time of the Renaissance, the Sonnet had evolved into the chosen mode for expressing

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The Montblanc Generation

chawm — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 10:58:19 +0000

The Montblanc, to the ordinary pen lover, is near synonymous with the 149 Meisterstück – black, larger-than-life, with a filling system that reflects the unending quest for perfection, nibs that define penmanship, with the snow-capped peak of the Montblanc mnemonic capping it all. It will not be an exaggeration to say that to innumerable fountain

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Epitome – Innovative Disruption of the Fountain Pen kind

chawm — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:29:52 +0000

Epitome Pens, Vinamra Tapadiya and a Fountain Pen designed by a 17-year-old that promises to churn the oceans of apathy. This is the age of innovative disruption. Of upstart start-up Davids that take on the full might of well-established Goliaths, and shoe-string their way to victory. This is the age of Uber which owns no

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Aristocrat from Click – the best entry level pen in India

chawm — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:09:48 +0000

Aristocrat: still reigning supreme. Let me begin this piece with an inconvenient truth – there are two types of pen manufacturers, one, those that make pens for the collectors and two, the ones making pens for actual users. Those focusing on the collectors have it easy, for their products are hardly ever put to the

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Tibaldi Perfecta – the classic, forever song!

chawm — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:16:45 +0000

A “Classic” is a forever song – an outstanding example of creativity, that defines its very genre. A Classic is also something that successive generations go back to, with an intention to interpret it with their sensibilities, freeze frame its timelessness as it were – to view eternity through the stilts of the present. For,

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Howard Cunix – the Wizard of the Fountain Pen!

chawm — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:22:00 +0000

Howard Cunix is a well-known name in the fountain pen collector forums in the social media. As a matter of fact, such is his popularity that he has maxed out the number of friends he is allowed to have and one has to wait, hoping against hope that the extremely unlikely event of somebody unfriending

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