Above is a video of the Matsuya Fountain Pen Hospital in Nagasaki, Japan. Fountain pen stores are called hospitals because they used to repair fountain pens as well as sell them. The store must do a decent business as three clerks are shown when we enter. Our customer is served by a fellow, I think the owner, who sports a tie and delivers a very dignified sales pitch. The pens the customer is looking at go for $75 although some go for considerably more than that.
Below we have a video of a craftsman making a pen. This link shows the parts and workings of fountain pens. You don't think of fountain pens as being handmade but, as the video shows, some are carefully hand crafted.
2 comments:
Pens are a whole thing it turns out. Some can go for thousands of dollars. Must be nice!
Yes, they are very strange things to become status symbols.
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