The 2009 edition of the Patrons of Art Edition will be dedicated to Max Baron von Oppenheim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Oppenheim


Max von Oppenheim (1896)

I haven't seen any pictures of the pen nor do I have any informations of the shape or size or color or ...

Regards,
Axel

Great Axel, thanks for the info.

Damn, you're good...

Axel,

Many thanks for the advance notice. Now all we need are a description and photos.

Mark

Thanks for the information I am already anxious to see what the pen looks like I really like the PoAs more than the WEs

Thank you Axel for the info. I can't wait to see some pictures... in February maybe?

I also can't help but to think about Agatha Christie's husband Max Mallowan, which was also an English archeologist of the Middle East (albeit later and also more towards the South). I wonder if Christie's WE will have anything to do with Oppenheim's POA. But it most likely won't. It will probably be something closer to the Semiramis. I just hope they dig into their Sarastro overlay catalogue... I might as well dream.

Some wings could be a nice feature on a pen. Why not a Hittite lion engraving on the nib? Something archaic. Hopefully MB has given the Oppenheim project to the same people who designed the Charlemagne, they did such a terrific job in capturing a "civilisation".

Thank you very much for this information. Can not wait to see what they will look like.

It's really nice to hear something like this -- and one of MB's best attributes (if you don't mind me saying so) -- but there are so many famous people, apart from "Writers" themselves, who deserve a pen to be named after them. And an "archaeologist" is just one good example.

Mike