Tinia

June 6, 2021

This pen is inspired by the Etruscan civilization and owes its name to Tinia (also known as Tin, Tinh, Tins or Tina), the God of the sky and the supreme deity of the Etruscan Pantheon.

The upper part of the cap represents a Villanovan crested helmet from the 9th century BC. (The Villanovan culture, regarded as the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization, was the earliest Iron Age culture of Central Italy and Northern Italy).

The Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly what is now Tuscany and lasted from the 8th century BCE to the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.

Etruscan influence on ancient Roman culture was profound and it was from the Etruscans that the Romans inherited many of their own cultural and artistic traditions.

It comes with our own created piston filler and a special box made of ancient wood* (100-300AD) with Argentium (Silver 935) and Enamel accents.

*These exceptional materials were found in a historical excavation placed in Roeselare (Belgium). The precious wood of the box goes back to the Roman times ("Civitas Menapiorum" 100-300 AD) and belonged to waterwells found on the site. The fragments of tiles from a tile kiln (stabilized to create part of the pen barrel) discovered in the same area also date back to the 100-300 century

June 9, 2021

To write with a pen that has historic materials. The cap finial can be used a self protection weapon?

June 11, 2021

On 6/9/2021 at 7:42 AM, jchch1950 said:

To write with a pen that has historic materials. The cap finial can be used a self protection weapon?

Yes we like to implent ancient materials with historical or emotional value in our pens. I guess it could but it was not created with this intent, we always like to give it an artistic touch.