His Nibs.com update -- Anniversaries July 20th, 2009 Greetings, I'm writing this on July 20th, 2009, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in the Sea of Tranquility. If you were of age then, it's one of those indelible moments that will be with you forever. In my case, it helped that Buzz Aldrin was from Montclair, NJ, the town next door to my boyhood home -- and where I would subsequently spend 20 years of my life. I wrote a short essay about the moon landing on the 35th anniversary, which you're invitedto read here http://hisnibs.blogspot.com/2004/07/heroes-still.html
if interested. July is another type of anniversary for me. Although October of this year will mark the 10th anniversary of 'His Nibs.com', I actually starting my pen business as a full-time endeavor two years earlier, in 1997, on the nascent eBay. In the beginning I imported Hero 329 http://tinyurl.com/m5d7zo and 330 http://tinyurl.com/lt6jjr pens from Hong Kong, and subsequently directly from the Hero company in Shanghai. I charge $15.00 then, and not much has changedin a dozen years.
I'd like to invite everyone to visit the just-launched Facebook version of His Nibs herehttp://bit.ly/64FUd I'm in the process of uploading all of the
pen videos I've done; adding in photo spreads of various pen models; uploading the more recent newsletters; starting discussion threads (please feel free to join in...or start your own); etc. The video from the 2007 Washington Supershow might be of interest to those making their first trip there next month. There's a new offering from the Chinese pen company Haolilai...the CEO pen. See more to the right. Lai Yee has been experimenting with a 2-pen pouch -- as a opposed to a pen roll. See her new patterns below. I just received a large re-stocking order from China, preparatory to the D.C. Supershow. Rather than list all of the pens here that are now back-in-stock, I've put them up on the homepage http://www.hisnibs.com/ On the blog...a 'poem' -- if you can call it that -- about tweeting with Twitter on the Fountain Pens Twibe! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~in this issue * Haolilai CEO fountain pen series * 2-pen pouches from Lai Yee * On the blog...fountain pen poetry? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haolilai CEO fountain pen series http://www.hisnibs.com/HaolilaiCEOPairAngled2_small.jpg The CEO pens from Haolilai are two classy-looking writers. They have nice heft, for free-flowing writing, and measure 5-1/2" capped, 6-1/2" posted and 4-7/8" with cap held aside. Capped, the pens appear identical, other than the obvious color distinction. The overall patterning employed makes use of many hundreds, perhaps even more that a thousand, tiny raised squares (although somewhat rounded in shape) that produce a very interesting tactile experience in the hand. See more here... - http://www.hisnibs.com/ceo.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2-pen pouches from Lai Yee http://www.hisnibs.com/PenRollCharacters2penOpenPens_small.jpg There have been a lot of requests (you know who you are! ) over the years from customers of Lai Yee's pen rolls for a one or two-pen version. Lai Yee has never found a pen roll that looked good or worked well at that size, but has succumbed to the pressure and created a pen pouch using the same materials andcraftsmanship.
Laid flat, the pouch measures approximately 3-1/2" in width and 9-3/8" high, with each slot being about 4-3/4" deep. In the example shown above, the pouch easily accommodates two oversized pens, the Montblanc 149 on the left and the Delta Dolcevita 10th Anniversary on the right. Here's her favorite pattern of the first crop, which I've named Golden Cursive... http://www.hisnibs.com/PenRollGoldenCursive-2penClosed2_small.jpg More patterns here... - http://www.hisnibs.com/pen_rolls.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the blog...fountain pen poetry? The founder of Twibes, a Twitter application, asked me to submit something on their new blog about the Fountain-pens Twibe I started recently. Let's be kind and call it 'free-form' poetry. Read the July 18th entry here... - http://hisnibs.blogspot.com/ Regards,Norman Haase
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