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Kaweco is a brand with a legacy in the stationery world. And the Kaweco Sport is a true stationery icon. This might also be why, over the years, this website here has accumulated a fair body of Kaweco Sport related…
After a video on the Design 07 fountain pen, I am now delighted to bring to you a review of yet another Otto Hutt pen. This time a rollerball, and this time the Design 06. Otto Hutt is a long…
There are only a few pens that consistently come up as lonely island pens across the pen community. The Lamy 2000 is one of them. The Montblanc 146, too. Another one undoubtedly is the Pilot Custom 823. Unfortunately, for quite…
Lamy is a well known and widely available pen maker. The Safari is one of the most successful pens ever (and I was lucky enough to interview its designer Wolfgang Fabian). Quite naturally, there have been quite a few Lamy…
Inside Stationery – series background (click to expand) I have been doing stationery reviews for a few years now. While I will continue making these, I sometimes feel that the focus on the products and their specs tends to take…
Scrively exists since about five and a half years now. In this time, I managed to review quite a range of products – mostly fountain pens – of all sorts and makes. Looking into the rear mirror, however, there seems to…
After the recent video review of a late 2020 Pelikan release, the M600 Tortoiseshell-Red, here comes another such review of a 4th quarter release: the Pelikan M405 Silver-White. Last year 2020, much of Pelikan’s releases have been delayed and/or shifted…
All good things come in threes, they say. So, after the review of the Waldmann Concorde and the Waldmann Précieux, here now comes one on the Waldmann Edelfeder. I am very happy to be able to bring you another one…
Over the years, Pelikan has released quite a few Special Editions, as each calendar year typically does add one or more of them in either of the lines M40x, M60x, M8ox, or M100x. This year 2020, much of Pelikan’s releases…
Roterfaden is an extremely interesting calendar/notebook system company, which essentially started from a diploma thesis at design school (read more about the background and history here). The idea behind the patented clip mechanism-based and handmade (!!!) system is to provide…
The fantastic thing about stationery is that, even after all those years of being into it, you always find something new: you learn about a great new product, maker, or story. From Nomadostore, I recently learned about Sonnenleder, a leather…