Friday, 30 October 2009

My new pens.

I bought lots of lovely new pens and nibs in Bologna. Lamy, Micron and Staedtler. The grandfather of the shopkeep was the inventor of Nettuno pens, which, according to theinkflow.com was "the first Italian fountain pen by their founder Umberto Vecchietti, made in Bologna in 1911. The name Nettuno was borrowed by Umberto Vecchietti from the statue overlooking a square in the historical center of Bologna."

Here is a picture of the pen shop I bought them from.