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Fountain Pen Filling Mechanisms

chawm — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:28:34 +0000

It was never easy being a scribe. Imagine carrying your quill (and a penknife to sharpen it at regular intervals) along with a pot of ink to work. Dank. It was only a little better when the holders with their metal nibs were introduced. Well, it did do away with the knife, but it was

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Pelikan 400 NN – der für immer Füllfederhalter!

chawm — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:55:05 +0000

Pelikan 400 NN – the forever fountainpen! The last of the Pelikan 400 NN pens had rolled out of the factory in July 1965, a full year and a quarter before I was born, which does not make it, downright decrepit like me, but certainly, delightfully vintage! And that is just one of the many

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Wilson Vacumatic – where is the Pen that drafted the Indian Constitution?

chawm — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:21:55 +0000

Wilson Vacumatic, the pen that drafted our Constitution We are a forgetful, if not a downright ungrateful people. Unless, off-course it is politically expedient to remember things, in which case we even tend to remember things that did not occur. But that again is another point, lets get back to things that we don’t remember

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PFM the largest Snorkel from Sheaffer.

chawm — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 05:10:50 +0000

PFM – are you “Man” enough for it? The year was 1959. The years leading to it had seen a move by most US fountain pen manufacturers towards the slender, longish pens like what were popularly referred to as the TM or the Thin Model Pens. Sheaffer was battling it out in the marketplace with

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Khyati Sketching Pen

chawm — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 03:36:47 +0000

This is the pen that was made famous by the “Munims” (traditional accountants of Gujarat and Rajastan). Just imagine – a tool of trade of the hard nosed, people employed to keep track of incomes and expenses – naturally, the device has to be reliable, robust and above all, value for money. It therefore goes

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