His Nibs.com update -- Anniversaries

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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:10:40 -0400

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 invited

to read herehttp://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 changed

in a dozen years.

I'd like to invite everyone to visit the
just-launched Facebook version of His Nibs here

http://bit.ly/64FUdI'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 and

craftsmanship.

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

His Nibs.com
www.hisnibs.com
Blog: http://hisnibs.blogspot.com
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