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For the past several months, Marco Tomaschett, the coordinator of the new Fine and Vintage Writing Instruments Department at Swann Auction Galleries, and I have been assembling and cataloging our inaugural sale of fine and vintage writing instruments.  With that complete, now comes the fun part, creating the visuals and assembling the sale as presented in the online and paper catalogues. We thought that you might like to see at least part of that process as we photographed the pens in our New York galleries during the third week of July.  The photography was done by Brilliant Graphics, the photographer Peter Philbin, assisted by Pete and Christa, whose surnames I did not get. Thos involved from Swann were me, department coordinator Marco Tomaschett and art director Bette Rothstein.  For me, since I photograph pens for my own website, it was fascinating to see how the pros work, using lighting and shadow so carefully and the extent to which post production processing is part of

Swann September Pen Sale

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Please note that this is a jpg and the links are not clickable. For more information e-mail me This blog has been too little used by me of late, but I do want to update those of you still following on our big September sale at Swann Auction Galleries.  For the past few months I have been shuttling between home and New York where I have been working with the property that we at Swann Auction Galleries will be pleased to offer for our September 2012 sale.  We will have print and online catalogues available in early August. Check back here. Headlining the September sale will be the finest grouping of vintage Chiltons ever presented. The pens offered will include some unique examples of early Boston pens as well as Wingflow and Golden Quill models never before sold publicly.  In addition we will be selling a very fine collection of vintage Montblancs, including pens in Azurite, coral, jet and pearl, faceted models in colored celluloid and gold filled metal. Included will be 1