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Announced for the end of December, a new Japanese market only SE Safari Copper.

 

The clip, however, is only copper colored, not actual copper. 
 

Does anybody know how I could order the pen from Japan? The Itoya.co.jp website is only in Japanese.

 

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4 hours ago, Calabria said:

Does anybody know how I could order the pen from Japan?

Itoya does support WorldShopping

 

but I could not find that copper beauty:

 

https://www.ito-ya.co.jp/tokushu/NEW_ARRIVAL_FINEPEN.html

 

When I go here: https://www.ito-ya.co.jp/ a banner on WorldShopping will pop up explaining the service.

 

Fee is a bit higher than buyee but itoya is not listed there. 

 

Update: Here is the english language page but the browser like Chrome should do the localization through translate.

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Thank you! It’s probably not available yet. The announcement just came today on Lamy.jp Instagram.

 

I do like this slate gray / copper combination. 

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On 12/2/2022 at 11:21 PM, Calabria said:

Thank you! It’s probably not available yet.

Thes have now started showing up on ebay, and are available on th eitoya web site.  The only bit I am sure of is you don't get shown a cost for international shipping util the item has arrived with Worldshipping who appear to be acting as a handling agent,

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On 12/16/2022 at 3:04 PM, bonnie-scott said:

Thes have now started showing up on ebay, and are available on th eitoya web site.  The only bit I am sure of is you don't get shown a cost for international shipping util the item has arrived with Worldshipping who appear to be acting as a handling agent,

I can confirm that. The shipping costs are not shown when you order through the Worldshipping add on. But I checked the rate schedule and am bracing myself for $40. 

 

I added the special nib which made it around $60 before shipping. An expensive toy but I like the slate/copper combination.

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Worldshopping shipping is $36 via FedEx to CA, FYI. 
 

That makes the Safari quite expensive in real terms, if you include the Kanji nib premium and shipping. But for me it’s still a pen under $100.

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On 12/24/2022 at 11:41 AM, Doug C said:

It cost me around 76 bucks total. 

I think the kanji nib makes it around $20 more. 

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I got mine today also—it's a nice matte color. To my eye, the grey is warm. It deviates from the griso/grey color from ~2001 in the same way the charcoal/umbra color deviates from a true black—a sort of yellow/green shift. I tried to take a photo but I'm not sure the lighting is conducive to perfect color capture. I did manage to correct the white balance. The "copper" clip looks good but I read somewhere that it's only copper colored. 

 

From bottom to top: Safaris Black LE, Umbra, Itoya, Griso. 

 

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I got mine from a Japanese vendor on EBay—it was about $79 shipped to the US. Worth it if you're a completionist like me or if you like matte Safaris. 

 

 

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7 hours ago, ninad said:

but I read somewhere that it's only copper colored.

Copper would be too soft. The clips are made of bronze so they are "springy". - So, basicly there is actually copper in the clip. 😉

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