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Heading to Italy in September, would welcome your suggestions of where a lover of italian pens might go...embarrassed_smile.gif

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Heading to Italy in September, would welcome your suggestions of where a lover of italian pens might go...embarrassed_smile.gif

 

Don't know about Milan, but the best pen shops in Rome are:

 

1. Regali Novelli: via di San Marcello 21-22 (not far from the Piazza Navona) - the owner (Marco Parascenzo) gives fantastic service

 

2. Stilo Fetti: via degli Orfani 82 (not far from the Pantheon)

 

Enjoy your visits and let us know what you got when you return home!

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Heading to Italy in September, would welcome your suggestions of where a lover of italian pens might go...embarrassed_smile.gif

 

Don't know about Milan, but the best pen shops in Rome are:

 

1. Regali Novelli: via di San Marcello 21-22 (not far from the Piazza Navona) - the owner (Marco Parascenzo) gives fantastic service

 

2. Stilo Fetti: via degli Orfani 82 (not far from the Pantheon)

 

Enjoy your visits and let us know what you got when you return home!

 

In Milan, you can visit the E.E. Ercolessi Shop in Corso Magenta, and the small Brunori Stilografiche shop in Via Torino 77. From Corso Magenta to Via Torino it's a 20 minutes walk. Then, if you leave the center, there is a nice shop called Cartoleria Novecento (mmmh... I do not remember the address right now but I can find it), the owner is a vintage pen passionate and very nice to deal with.

Good luck!

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In Milan a good shop with lots of stock is La Scrittura in Via Turati (5-10 minutes walk from Montenapoleoane, and adjacent to AC MIlan's HQ).

 

http://www.lascritturamilano.com/

 

They do a good range of Visconti. Recently stopped stocking OMAS, due to (was told) production moving away from Italy.

 

Always ask for their "best price"...

 

Good luck!

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In Milan I confirm Ercolessi and Brunori and I suggest also Mazza Stilografiche, Via Cesare Cantù 3, always downtown (close to Duomo).

 

Have a nice trip.

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Sounds like an awesome trip. Too bad we'll be going to Australia before you go -- that way I can't see the spoils. :)

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Sounds like an awesome trip. Too bad we'll be going to Australia before you go -- that way I can't see the spoils. :)

 

If you're coming here! Please try to make sure it's when I'm here too! I'd hate to miss a chance of mutual hospitality!!!!crybaby.gif

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I don't have any stores to add but does anyone know if there are any stores in Bassano Del Grappa (yes, I know Montegrappa and Signum are in this town, that's why I'm curious).

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update: i'll now also be in Verona and Florence....

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update: i'll now also be in Verona and Florence....

 

Someone already asked about Florence, where there's Casa della Stilografica , and Rome too. :rolleyes: See here.

 

Verona, there's a little store called Rudy Manella on Via Mazzini 5 /A. I'm not joking about little, it's kind of a hole in wall. But the woman at the store had lots of nice pens tucked away. Via Mazzini is one of (the?) main walkways, closed to traffic, full of shops; it runs from the Arena inward towards Piazza delle Erbe. So it's a street you'll most likely walk. I bought my mini-Sole while on vacation years ago at that store; and that pen is responsible for relaunching my bug. :D

 

There's another store called Lo Scrittoio on Corso Porta Borsari 18. But I don't think I went into that one.

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+1 on Marco at Novelli - truly, great service and fantastic prices...

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update: i'll now also be in Verona and Florence....

 

Someone already asked about Florence, where there's Casa della Stilografica , and Rome too. :rolleyes: See here.

 

Verona, there's a little store called Rudy Manella on Via Mazzini 5 /A. I'm not joking about little, it's kind of a hole in wall. But the woman at the store had lots of nice pens tucked away. Via Mazzini is one of (the?) main walkways, closed to traffic, full of shops; it runs from the Arena inward towards Piazza delle Erbe. So it's a street you'll most likely walk. I bought my mini-Sole while on vacation years ago at that store; and that pen is responsible for relaunching my bug. :D

 

There's another store called Lo Scrittoio on Corso Porta Borsari 18. But I don't think I went into that one.

 

If you come to Verona, be sure to go to Manella's store, as suggested by Eric47. The little boutique on via Mazzini has now an annex in a gallery just behind it, which is much larger, and with a much wider collection of pens (and other luxury articles). Ask the owner to show you where it is!

Lo Scrittoio, on corso Porta Borsari is also nice and well furnished.

 

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It's sounding wonderful

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Sounds like an awesome trip. Too bad we'll be going to Australia before you go -- that way I can't see the spoils. :)

I hope not to find pens! You will not be finding very much down in this neck of the woods.

Patience is a virtue when waiting for the right pen... although I do just always seem to miss them

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Heading to Italy in September, would welcome your suggestions of where a lover of italian pens might go...embarrassed_smile.gif

 

I love Stilo Fetti, I think it's the only pen "pharmacy" I've ever been to - everybody wears lab coats. Signora Fetti is charming. And I like the sly salesman who said - after I had purchased my OMAS - that the company is owned by Chinesi! And then get a coffee next door.

But - I also walked into a dusty old store somewhere and found some old OMAS pens from 1995 that I didn't buy - early run celluloid in grey -but I did buy a NOS Pelikan "W.Germany" brown pen that is beautiful. The big name stores are amazing, but the little mom-and-pop stores are even better. In Bologna, I bought up all the OMAS pens from a charming lady in a miniscule store off the main piazza.

 

So - be prepared to go hunting!

 

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In Bologna, I bought up all the OMAS pens from a charming lady in a miniscule store off the main piazza.

 

Not all of them, LOL. No, not me; but I know where some of the pens went. The store was most likely given the description "La Stilografica", which was closed down around Christmas time last year.

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