FOR A MORE COMPLETE ESSAY ON THIS MATTER WITH BETTER PICTURES PLEASE VISIT http://rhamielsfountain.com/Rhamiels_Fountain_Pens/Authentication.html 1. Shine a flash light through the barrel of the fountain pen....
As I search other pen seller auctions I regularly see descriptions that go something like this: "This is a Pilot Capless fountain pen made before Namiki bought the company." I shudder every time I see these...
This introduction to buying Parker pens contains information about the preparation necessary before bidding, what to look for on the web, how to track your progress, and how to close the deal. To begin, you...
No two writers are the same. That is a very simple self-evident sentence, but when it comes to pens it becomes very important. Pilot pens realized this back in the 1920’s as they tried to move the traditional...
Perhaps no type of fountain pen is more misunderstood than the Japanese Eyedropper. This is not so surprising. To the casual pen collector, a Japanese eyedropper pen looks like some kind of strange plunger...
Recently I have learned that there is a group of scam artists out there passing off fake Dunhill Namiki pens to the Japanese pen community. I guess this was inevitable.Wherever there is value and money,...
There seems to be some confussion about the Japanes "Kao" (red seal) and the Mei (usual artist signature). In Japan, maki-e artists are nearly always part of a guild. If they are rogue artists, then they would...