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| Nippon
Art Golden Pheasant | ||||
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The Nippon Art Golden Pheasant captures the sudden flurry
of a pair of pheasants at take off. The background is filled with a flutter of
heart-shaped particles raised by the wing beats. | ||||
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| The silver pheasant, seen on the cap
is pointed down, with its long tapered tail feathers mostly surrounding the cap.
The pheasant on the barrel, which we see as the male, is rising up. | ||||
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| He is a much more colorful bird and we assume is rising to meet the female on the cap. Because the cap and barrel have a single start thread, unlike most other fountain pens, the two birds always align beak to beak, when the cap is screwed onto the barrel. The effect is one of motion, an instant of surprise and a meeting of winged creatures. This is the only Namiki's Maki-e series to have a thin gold cap band. At 5 5/8" long, capped, with a barrel diameter of 7/16" and a weight of 32 grams, it's just slightly larger and heavier than most "standard" size pens but is well-balanced and comfortable in the hand.. | ||||
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The pens arrived yesterday, and as usual, I am extremely happy with them. The Namiki Golden Pheasant is a real beauty. I love the subtle variations in the plumage colors, and the star burst of hearts surrounding the union of these birds. The hearts are saved from being hopelessly sentimental by the fact that they don't have uniform shapes like american style valentines, but are kind of free-form and lumpy. I even suspect that some of them might be livers or kidneys and what could be less sentimental than a sky full of livers and kidneys? In any case, it is my experience that this is precisely the sort of thing that happens when great birds find their soulmates. The fluttering wings express tremendous feeling, and I love the way the cap is threaded so that the silver pheasant on the cap and the golden pheasant on the barrel are always coming together. The nib is quite elegant and really interesting. I think it may take my rather unsubtle hand a little while to get used to it, but I really like it... Thanks for everything and stay well, Alan Lew" (11/22/05) | ||||
| Retail price$700 | ||||
| Our price $560.00 | ||||
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