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Hi Folks!

 

This is a throwback photo from the Winter 2006 Pennant article "Collecting Japanese Pens" by Stan Klemanowicz. The pens are acrylic "skeleton" pens c. 1953-1956, left to right a clear pen by an unknown maker, a blue Platon pen, and a clear pen made for Ichijiku. Although today these pens might be called demonstrators, there are many examples of transparent and translucent acrylic pens from Japan from the 1950s indicating that they were regular production that featured this material.

 

Would love to see more examples!

 

http://www.penhero.com/Temp/3PenWinter2006PennantSet_2048_01.jpg

 

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Jim Mamoulides
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The pens are acrylic "skeleton" pens c. 1953-1956, ... transparent and translucent acrylic pens from Japan from the 1950s indicating that they were regular production that featured this material.

 

Would love to see more examples!

 

 

The Nagasawa Stationery Center shop-exclusive demonstrators PROSKE (with the PRO part being for Sailor Profit Standard) and CENSKE (with the CEN part being for Platinum #3776 Century) 'collaboration' pen models from the past decade are named because the SKE part stands for Skeleton.

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