MKE's view on pens

  Just be cautious to know the difference between the different silver types if you buy a silver pen - I use some lines from Wikipedia - do not claim I could say it better.   Real silver Fine silver  is 99.9% pure silver. Argentium silver  (patented in 1998) is a brand of modern tarnish-resistant silver alloys, containing either 93.5%, 94% or 96% silver. Argentium alloys replace some of the copper in the traditional sterling silver (92.5% silver + 7.5% copper) with the metalloid germanium. Argentium 935, Argentium 940 and Argentium 960 alloys exceed the standard required for hallmarking as sterling silver, and Argentium 960 silver meets the standard for hallmarking as Britannia silver (95.84% silver). Silvadium, Sterlium  is 93% silver, and other metals Sterling silver  is an alloy composed by weight of 92.5% silver and 7.5% other metals, usually copper. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925.   and then there i...

 It's play time. I asked Gemini to create some fountain pens. Unfortunately, Gemini still has some problems in creating a fountain pen. I am still working on how to make reliably such a pen with Gemini. The problem could be with my prompts or it could be on the Gemini side. Nevertheless - enjoy!

 趣味の文具箱 / Japanese penmagazine The first issue is from 08/2004 and they just reached Nr. 70 in April 2024. New issues are now published every January, April, July and October. I will sell them (in one batch only) if your offer is good. mkepens@gmail.com 創刊号は2004年8月号で、2024年4月に70号を迎えた。現在、毎年1月、4月、7月、10月に新しい号が発行されている。良い申し出があれば（一括のみ）販売します。 In the last photo are a few other books (left side) which do not belong to the penmagazine. 最後の写真に写っているのは、ペンマガジンのものではない数冊の本（左側）である。

English below. 年を取り、ペンの収集からは遠ざかっている。 そこで、まだ "ビジネス "を続けている方にとって興味深いものがあります。 連続22号（1998～2019年）の筆記具カタログです。 "日本筆記具輸入協会の筆記具カタログ" カタログは1978年から存在するのですが、最初の20年間は消えてしまったようです。 このカタログは、ヤフーオークションで出品者が事実かどうかを確認するのに非常に便利である。 興味があったら、オファーにお待ちしております。送料は実費になります。重さはだいたい20-22 kgです。 単行本を売る準備はまだできていない。聞かなくてもいいです。来年か再来年のために覚えておいてくださいね。宜しくお願いします。 単行本以外はどんな質問でもOKです。mkepens@gmail.com 写真は以下を参照。写真をクリックすると拡大表示されます。 Getting older and getting out of pen collecting. Therefore, I have something which might be interesting to you who are still in this "business". 22 consecutive (1998-2019) issues of the pen catalogue which I would like to sell. "The Pen Catalogue of the Japanese Pen Importer Association" Catalogues have existed since 1978 - however, the first 20 years seem to have vanished. These catalogues are very convenient to check if sellers on Yahoo Auctions stay on facts or not - especially when they report the original price of a pen. Interested? Make me an offer. Shippin...

 Waldmann Pens has brought out a new limited edition of 100 pens. This time it is a combination of a carbon fiber cap with a Sterling silver body. As usual, you can get this pen with a 18k gold or with a stainless steel nib from EF to B. For further details, see the website of Waldmann or your favorite pen shop.  It is the classical color combination, black and silver.

Once upon a time, I was young and was studying for my thesis in Paris (at the end of the 1980s). Every Saturday morning, I went by Metro to a cafe at the Boulevard St.Michel. I don't remember the name but it looks like it is called "Le Lutece" now. I bought a German newspaper, had my coffee and wrote some to do memos for the next week. Now, 35 years later, Paris is too far away and such kind of cafes do not exist in Narita (Japan). So, I am going by bicycle to a shopping mall. I am also buying groceries here and there. I am using a back-pack and shopping consists of regular  removing all the contents of my back-pack and repacking them. I am always afraid that I would loose my pens when doing this, so I have a special pen set for this "coffee-drinking-shopping". This is it. A leather daily diary and a leather pen box and some famous pens. I gotcha.  Everything in this picture is not what it looks like.  While the pen box is described as "leather" on Ali...