April 2007 Newsletter
Melbourne Vintage Pens
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Lunch Time Duofolds

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An update to our website has just been published. The first thing you will notice is the improved images. As most viewers would now have access to broadband, we’ve increased the image sizes, in most cases by 77%.

The result is a slightly larger than life-size depiction in the horizontal shots as viewed on the average desktop LCD monitor. Check your monitor display by holding a known pen (say a Parker 51) against a similar pen on our site.

We’ve added new items in most sections including Plum, 1st Year and 14ct Clip 51’s; VPs; Big Red and Mandarin Duofolds; Late Duofolds; Spanish Treasure Fleet 75; and boxed PFMs.


Pen Shows

The LA Pen Show was as big as ever, with even more tables squeezed in. Like most shows, it is gradually being taken over by “New” pens. An ever-increasing number of “Vintage” dealers are voting with their feet and no longer staying for the public day. Few “hoards” of pens found in the wild are turning up, and so by Saturday lunchtime you’ve seen it all!

We’ve decided to reduce the number of overseas shows we do this year to two, the next being Washington DC in August.


Ebay

We’ve just started another season of Ebay auctions. We're happy to accumulate and combine lots to reduce shipping cost.


Pelikan “M” Series

Ever wondered how the wonderful Pelikan “M” series pens were put together. The answer is in this rare case.


Blast from the Past

Extracts from a Conway Stewart article in a 1954 Australian Stationery Trade Magazine

“Here also is the hot store where fountain pen parts are matured for periods of varying length, according to the amount of work done to them during the course of manufacture."


Quotations

I did not fully understand the term “terminal illness” until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dennis Potter


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