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Bogon07
April 2nd, 2014, 05:41 PM
I rec'd an newsletter from Novelli.it this morning which advised a new Visconti Venus Tribute to Botticelli
http://www.novelli.it/eng/pensreg/testdiv3.asp?produttore=Visconti&modello=Venus%20tribute%20to%20Botticelli&opdb=1

http://www.novelli.it/images/penne/2147464340.jpg

http://www.novelli.it/images/penne/2147464335.jpg
There appear to be two versions Rose Gold with pinkish resin & Platinum with white resin.
Steel nibs & cartridge/converters. Plus rollergraphics, rollerballs, mechanical pencils & ballpoints

The body looks to be in the VanGogh/Dali/Michelangelo style.

UPDATE:
I've just noticed they are included on the Visconti FaceBook page as part of the Michelangelo 2014 collection- Michelangelo 2014: True Black, Back to Black, Tribute to Venus and Navy Blue.
https://www.facebook.com/ViscontiFirenze/posts/428941583875191

:confused: So more logically these two pale ones should really be called Botticellis - then we would have VanGogh/Dali/Michelangelo/Unity of Italy/Botticelli all sharing the same body - a mind boggling concept. And quite feasibly you could swap gold, palladium or steel nibs between them.

Robert
April 2nd, 2014, 05:55 PM
Thanks for the post. Both are quite lovely, but I would lean toward the silver/white one.

00Photo
April 2nd, 2014, 05:58 PM
Wow! I am really digging the pink one.

VertOlive
April 2nd, 2014, 06:51 PM
Sigh.....just lovely!

Crazyorange
April 2nd, 2014, 07:16 PM
That pink one is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

Tracy Lee
April 3rd, 2014, 05:05 AM
I asked them via Facebook if you could get any style with a non-steel nib and they said yes. I am a sucker for the rose gold!!!

Llewellyn
April 3rd, 2014, 07:55 AM
I asked them via Facebook if you could get any style with a non-steel nib and they said yes. I am a sucker for the rose gold!!!

So you could get the white / silver with a palladium nib - is that right??

Tracy Lee
April 3rd, 2014, 08:01 AM
From what they said, yes. You would have to work with the dealer on that I'm sure, and the price would be more of course.

tandaina
April 3rd, 2014, 08:23 AM
Beautiful, but I really don't like metal sections. :(

Bogon07
April 3rd, 2014, 02:57 PM
Beautiful, but I really don't like metal sections. :(

But then you wouldn't have any fun with the magnetic cap. :)

The Pink rose gold version slaps you in the face straight away but the White platinum has now become my favourite.

I wonder what is on the cap band ?

Llewellyn
April 3rd, 2014, 04:30 PM
I'm rather partial to the white one

Jon Szanto
April 3rd, 2014, 05:05 PM
I understand the "bridge" analogy, but I sure would like to see them use a more elegant and less bulky clip when they make pretty pens like this. I really do believe that it is a stylistic non-sequiter, and it is pretty dogmatic to routinely include that clip design. I might even be able to live with a metal section, but not that.

Well, as they say, more of them for the rest of you! ;)