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| Pelikan is releasing a Limited Edition fountain pen honoring the evolution of western written communication, script. The story begins on the walls of caves with graphic line drawings and continues to more abstract forms including cuneiform, a kind of writing using wedge shaped marks in clay. Something very important happened around the year 930 B.C. The Phoenician traders and those they were trading with evolved a mark to represent each sound that is made in speech. | |||
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The phoentic alphabet marked the transition from the
cumbersome image based figures to the beginning of the 26 letters
that we know today. This opened up the use of writing to everyday
people, not just the small priest class. Now, children could
understand the logic of writing and grow up literate. We call
it the phonetic alphabet. Civilization with trade and urban
culture became possible. (Note that Sailor Pen Company has honored script in a different way with the Hanzi L.E. and the Pharaohs L.E. ). |
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Note the engraved Celtic 'S' motif on the clip and the long tapered shape of this pen The size of this limit of this edition, 930 pieces, was chosen because that was the date, 930 BC, when the oldest European adaptation of the Phonetic alphabet was created on the island of Crete. A small numbered edition can produce scarcity later on as seen in the pens made during the 1930's depression era in the US. Even the "student grade pens" of the period have become valuable. |
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Each pen of this very small
edition is numbered on the seal. |
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| Going much further back
in the European history of graphic communication, there are
cave-painting images engraved into the cap. The barrel is finished
with high gloss yellow lacquer behind the gilded written characters.
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The pen is completed with
a specially designed 18K M1000 fine nib.
We can offer a complete range of alternate M1000 nibs as well.
The limited edition fountain pen is offered in a black presentation
box with a white satin liner decorated with the "S"
seen on the clip. In order to open the box, one must depress
the gold button on the latch. |
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Retail price: $1800.00 |
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Our price: $1440.00 |
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