Firstly, happy New Year to you and your loved ones! I originally planned to post every few days, but somehow eight weeks slipped by. Life got in the way, and unpacking everything from storage took a little longer than expected — but we’re finally there! Fortunately, the house I’ve recently moved into has enough space […]
Author: Dave
exploding instruments…
Trying to pick different things, this caught my eye. From a far I presumed this to be a fountain pen, but picking this up I can now see its a A Yard O-Led exploded pencil within a solid perspex cube. This type of display feels fairly modern – I presume its a point of sale […]
A quick snapshot
So, how many fountain pens is this journey going to take us? At a guess around 1,200, with maybe 100 pen holders and sets, and we’ll also go deeper into some of the tools I’ve found lying around the place. There’s also perhaps a futher 100 YOL pencils, and a lot of spare parts. The […]
Where to start… Parker Sonnet Accession
This is the start of my journey to explore all the items from the collection of Paul Baker who passed away in 2021. Paul, my dad, was very knowledgable on servicing, restoration and repair of fountain pens. For many years he would try and pass his knowldege, passion and enjoyment acrross to me – and […]