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Pen box - Japanese style

My rotation pens rested in several boxes here and there on my book shelves. I always wanted them to be together in one box. So, I bought one at Yahoo Auctions. It is a wooden box lacquered with urushi, unused, stored hidden for many years in some drawers.  Nice, isn't it. It is an old storage box for writing tools and paper. But to use it as a pen box, there is some protection necessary - otherwise the lacquer will soon suffer.  But such an inset is probably not commercially available. So today, I decided to make one by myself - using Japanese paper "Washi". I chose a paper in which gold and silver flakes are mixed into the fibres. It is quite thick and, additionally, the backside is coated with gold. (This gold and silver is certainly made from aluminium.) I folded the paper that the valley is 15mm broad and the crests are 5mm high. The backside then looks like this. Some adhesive into the crests.  A little bit of persuasion with some clip...

Waldmann 100th Anniversary Pen - Limited Edition

Do you have some spare money for a very beautiful pen? I mean this one.     If yes, then how about this piston filler - made from 66g Silver of a total weight of 82g? It is the 100th Anniversary pen of Waldmann. Hurry up, there are only 100 available.  More information is here - sorry in German only: LINK I don't know where you can buy it - you need to ask the company. Contact page . --- I bought one of the very few remaining ones. Here some more pictures.