The PENguin Blog

I spent the weekend before the San Francisco Pen Show down at Monterey car week, an extravaganza of car related stuff that draws visitors from around the country and around the world. As many of you know I have an active interest in cars and in BMWs, specifically. So on Friday I attended the Legends of the Autobahn, a static car show and judging that features Audi, BMW, and Mercedes cars. And my 1M was part of the non-judged display, the only one of that model there as far as I could tell. On Saturday, the main event was the historic car races, and I brought my camera. Shooting cars at speed can be a challenge, especially if you do not use automatic settings. I took more than three hundred images to get these. (Worse odds than monkeys with typewriters, I daresay!) I wish I could identify the cars below for you, but in addition to not being a race photographer (or driver) I am not enough of an historian to be able to do that, for the most part. From Friday's LOTA a pre W...

While the new website is under final construction (Coming Soon, I swear!), let’s use this blog for it’s original purpose, flash announcements of newly available pens, and I have a bunch from the recent Washington DC Pen Show. The 142 was Montblanc’s smallest pen, back in the day. Unlike the current day 144, however this pen features a piston filler and all the features of the full sized pens. Priced affordably at $295. We also have a burgundy M250 from the 1980s, an affordable, collectible, and very useable pen. $275. Many of you will recall the Galleria Kaufhof M400 tortoise pens from several years back. Both I and several other sellers imported a bunch of these and they went like hotcakes. Back in the day they were fine alternative to the costly and unobtainable M800s, and trimmed very much like one. They, too, have disappeared, but I ran across one recently. $550. One of the most interesting things to come across my desk in a while is a Pelikan 400 se...