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Uniball Signo Scents: Gel Pens that Smell Like Bubblegum and Blueberries

by TonyB on March 5, 2010

We heard from Uniball this morning that there is a new range of gel pen coming to the UK. The Signo Scents line are rollerball pens with, just like the name says, scented ink.

They will come in 10 distinctive aromas, including Strawberry Pink, Orangey Orange, Blueberry Blue, Pineapple Yellow, Coconut Brown, Cola Black, Soda Blue, Cherryade Red, Bubblegum Pink and Mint Green. Read More –>

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

by TonyB on March 3, 2010

Actually, not quite so random this week.

• Lock up your good pens; there are thieves about. The Herald is reporting that burglars in Plymouth have stolen a collection of jewellery and high-end pens, including a Montblanc Greta Garbo special edition ballpoint.

(Greta Garbo was a classic Hollywood movie star in the ’20s and ’30s. The Montblanc series pens carry her signature and have a pearl in the cap.) Read More –>

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A New Life for Old Sharpie Pens

March 1, 2010

American fans of Sharpie pens and recycling have an option to do some good with their used pens – send them in to be recycled and earn 2 cents per pen for a charity of your choice.
Newell Rubbermaid, the company that owns Sharpie, Paper Mate pens and Expo markers, is working with recycler TerraCycle to [...]

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Newhaven has Competition for Parker Pen Archives

February 26, 2010

The town of Janesville, Wisconsin is speaking up about the future of the Parker Pen archives.
You might remember we mentioned last month that the iconic pen company was closing down its Newhaven manufacturing plant and shifting everything to France. Pen collector Tony Fischier, who runs ParkerCollector.com, has launched an online petition to keep the company’s [...]

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Conversations About Handwriting

February 24, 2010

Lots of good stuff for you this week:
• No wonder people in the Victorian era seemed to write so many letters. The New York Times has a very interesting article about how mail was delivered 12 times a day in London back then. You could receive a letter and respond to it the same day.

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The Uniball Pen Giveaway

February 19, 2010

If you’ve never tried the Uniball Jetstream RT retractable rollerball pen, this is the time to do it. The company is giving away a half-million FREE pens to anyone who asks. Unfortunately, the offer is only open to those living in the U.S., but if you have a mate in the States, maybe he can [...]

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Parker Pen Historian Michael Fultz Has Passed Away

February 19, 2010

We’re a little late on this, but we wanted to mention that L. Michael Fultz, the collector and historian who knew everything there was to know about Parker fountain pens, died Jan. 27 in Janesville, Wisc. He’d moved there, the original hometown of the Parker company, after a career in Illinois state government.

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

February 12, 2010

•The AP’s reporting some good news and some bad news about David H. Brooks, founder of the company that provided Interceptor body armor to the U.S. military. The good news is, David is a such a supporter of pen collecting that he spent US$ 350K on them, including gold and silver pens. The bad news [...]

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

February 3, 2010

Here at Tiger Pens, we’re always hunting the web for the latest news from the world of pens. But sometimes, what we find is just an odd collection of the curious and the amusing.

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Conversations About Handwriting

January 29, 2010

It’s gratifying to see how often people still talk about handwriting, even as the doomsayers are predicting the end of pen-and-ink communications (nope, isn’t going to happen). These are some items that have caught our attention over the last few days:

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