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PENNA
Fountain Pens & Lifestyle

This year must be their 25th anniversary, judging from the 2013 title "20 years".

I didn't know about it until recently. But it is well-worth to read. It is bilingually written in Italian and English, so you could also train your knowledge of Italian.

Part of their archive is open to read and some of the issues can be downloaded as pdf.

LINK

Happy reading!


Some advertisements of Japanese pens are better than those here available in Japan and some of the (Japanese) pens I have never seen advertised here.


8/26: Addition
The last issue of the magazine is from 2017 - so no 25th anniversary.
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