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Some Of My Vintage Urushi (Including A Crab! :d)

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Love the red deer!!

"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard.

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Jandrese, two of the floral pens are Platinum 3776s, and the one to their left is a Pilot. The crab and the deer are unmarked, so I don't know the maker -- probably a small workshop or something.

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It is often the case with 1950s hiramakie pens. About 10% might have kanji identifying the artist. And,10% might be a high number.

 

The hiramakie designs were made on rice paper or silk (brain freeze, here), set on layer of urushi, and lacquered over. In natural light the edges of the paper are often evident. Some were silkscreened. Some done by hand. You have to look very close to see the difference. Sometimes, as the urushi ages and oxidizes it becomes more apparent.

 

Regardless, some of the designs and applications are exceptional. Some are mixed media with gold dust, abalone, etc, applied over the hiramakie.

 

Having a designers kanji does not make it better. Frankly, some of the best and most elaborate I've seen do not have any markings. Whether it did or not, would it matter? The names are not Google-able. The artists anything but famous. Just neat to know what the kanji says.

 

I have heard of artists from Pilot moonlighting. This was strongly discouraged by management. However, there was an abundance of free-lance artists readily available for real makie work. Hiramakie is different from makie!

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Me too! I'm definitely keeping the crab, but the deer will probably be a catch and release. I think it looks kinda angry.

 

If you decide to release the deer into the wild please recall that I might be able to welcome it into a nurturing forest!

"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard.

A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have

nothing to do but smell."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

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Alas for me, I am super allergic to urushiol oil (which is what poison ivy is). So no pens like that for me. I can only drool over their beauty from a distance.

And let's be real. They are BREATHTAKINGLY gorgeous. I think my personal favorite in the photo above is the one to the right of the deer (a chrysanthemum flower?). I look at some of the LE pens that MB and Montegrappa put out and think, "Who would buy that tacky looking un-ergonomic piece of cr*p?" Then I look at the beautiful Japanese maki-e pens and am just sad that I can't have one. They are just works of art.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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