So, today was the first public day of the Chicago Pen Show. This year it's in a new location, the Sheraton at O'Hare, and as a result there are three rooms of tables to visit. A bunch of us FPGeekers met up and had fun. Apologies because I took very few photos this year. In retrospect, I spent too much time having fun. Also teasing the wonderful Roger Wooten, who has more than 300 Sheaffer desk sets, but fewer than 300 desks. Well, that's lucky, actually. And I'm lucky that he's a good sport.
So here are some cool things we saw.
The Bittner table had some wonderful modern pens. We were especially taken by the Namiki Emperor pens.
For scale, the object in the middle is the Pelikan Toledo M700 size, which the size of an M400 or M200. These Emperor pens are huge. And the decoration is drop-dead gorgeous. In fact they are so perfectly made that we couldn't even tell they were piston fillers until the very nice Detlef Bittner told us. Here is one of them in dgator's large hands.
Here is just the cap.
Here they are a little closer, to show the detail.
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