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Martini Spider Limited Edition Fountain Pen
Martini Spider
This is another edition of Martini pens unlike any other made so far and is made by Danitrio. The design, a spider in pursuit of a dragonfly, uses the antique process of Raden, with steps requiring hand work from beginning to end. Pieces of sea shell, egg shell and other materials are carefully placed into the hand grooved hard rubber. After the lacquer is set, the surface of the pen is hand finished in progressively finer stages. This pen is approximately 5 7/8" long capped, has a barrel diameter of 19/32" and weighs 29 1/2 grams without ink. It fills with a converter and takes a standard international cartridge.
Martini Spider
The captivating part of this design is the swirl of the spider legs. As the pen is turned, the legs seem to extend.
Martini Spider
The body of the spider is reflective with abalone, a shell that refracts different colors as the pen is turned. The final polish appears to have been done on a spindle with the results visible under a loop, and visible on the bottom close-up seen below. We suspect that this technique was employed to avoid damage to the variety of inlays.
Martini Spider Detail3
Large areas of the barrel and cap are free of design, leaving one to conjecture whether the spider has lunch.
Martini Spider Detail

The Spider pen is presented in a lovely moderate sized, black lacquered wood box with a magnetic clasp.
The 18k nib is the same one used on the Martini Blue Sky. It has a platinum plating over the solid gold and is available in Fine, Medium, Broad, 1.3mm Stub and two new styles: Fine Flexible (FF), and Medium Flexible (MF). Note: Every flexible nib that we have tested so far was poorly set at the factory and has needed resetting here before it would write well. We guarantee every pen and nib that we ship.

Martini Spider Detail2

Each pen has a hand carved signature on the top of the section and the edition number, --/50 hand engraved on the underside.

We believe that these will not be available for long.

Retail Price: $800.00
Our price: $720.00 - SOLD OUT


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