Namiki Vanishing Point

Here’s a plug for a pen shop I must pass along. I was looking for a Namiki Vanishing Point, and Maja recommended Oscar Braun, who are in the Detroit area of USA. She said their prices and service both are second to none. So I checked them out, and can only agree in both respects. I received my pen promptly, and at a very good price. Their website is:

http://www.oscarbraunpens.com/

While not a heavy-duty pen collector, I knew I had to have the VP after seeing another member’s. This pen necessarily has quite a heavy barrel, but I like that, plus I was fascinated by the mechanism, as well as the history of this pen – it being virtually unchanged since its arrival in the mid 1960s.

Here it is stripped down. Really it's just a very thin fountain pen, enclosed in a retractable body. And yes, there's a little hatch that closes behind the nib to prevent it drying out.

Come one, come all! (May 2008 meeting of the VPC)

Date: Thursday May 15th, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm -- "Meet & Greet"; 6:30 pm-- Start of meeting
Place: Perks pen shop, 5844 Cambie St (at 42nd), Vancouver (across from Oakridge Mall...same place as last month's meeting)
Theme: Pens you would never sell ...or the first pen you bought for a future pen collection
If you have a sentimental favourite, or a pen that was the start of a collection (or both), please bring it/them to the meeting, along with any other pen-related items that you'd like to show to the other members...

Thanks in advance to Richard Clarke of Perks (www.perksperks.com) for volunteering to host the meeting at his fabulous pen store. This might be the last meeting before the VPC summer break so I hope we get a good turnout.