Aurora Columbus Limited Edition Fountain Pen
Happy Friday! It is an old limited edition but we still count with a few items, and we would like to share it with you. It has the shape of the Aurora Optima Fountain Pen, and it is gold plated with a hand-engraved special guilloche pattern. It is engraved with the LE number and it…
DetailsVisconti Fountain Pen Limited Edition “Twelve Tribes of Israel”: A Jewish Legacy
The Visconti Fountain Pen “Twelve Tribes of Israel” -Limited Edition 61625 pays tribute to the history of the 12 tribes of Israel and at the twelve Sons of Jacob. The Torah traces the Israelites to the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham. Jacob’s twelve sons (in order of birth), Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar,…
DetailsAurora Nobile Fountain Pen – Prepared for Adventure!
In the age of scientific exploration, many journeys were undertaken to visit the North and South Pole, to reach places where no other man had ever been. Umberto Nobile was an Italian Aerodynamic engineer, and his advances in the field of semi-rigid aircraft led him to coordinate an expedition to the North Pole in 1928.…
DetailsST Dupont Second Empire Limited Edition
The year was 1852, in the midst of the new industrialization and the liberal revolutions in Europe, Napoleon III established the Second French Empire to relive the moments of glory France had gone through decades before. The rising tension between the different social groups in this industrialised France, together with the crisis of traditional values…
DetailsOld Fountain Pen Ads!
It’s easy to relate fountain pens to older times, as they appear to be vintage writing instruments, predecessors of our modern day ballpoints. But for pen-lovers there’s a kind of nostalgia when seeing real evidence of how old fountain pens really are. Here are some samples of fountain pen ads taken from old newspapers in…
DetailsAurora Pens History: A trip through time
Did you know that Aurora Pens is one of Italy’s most recent pen brands? Founded in 1919, the Italian firm reached the top level in barely 30 years. By 1947 the Aurora 88 model was released to compete with one of the most successful pens ever: the Parker 51! Aurora pens has ever since been…
DetailsST Dupont History: Worldwide Success!
We had left our story in New York, after the 1929 economic crisis. ST Dupont began to grow thanks to the upper classes that had survived the crisis and were spending more and more on luxury goods. The success was total! Pretty soon, the French designer was selling his travel cases throughout the world, expanding…
DetailsST Dupont: The first years of success
1923 Orders began to flourish and in 1923 they opened a second workshop in Faverges, France, the family’s home town, located in the picturesque Haute-Savoie Region, at the foot of the Mont Blanc Mountain in the French Alps, recruiting only the best and the brightest craftsmen from 17 different trades. S.T. Dupont products continue to…
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