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Friday Slide Show: Peter Pan Pen
20 December 2024
We've been taking notes for more decades than we care to tell. And we've taken them in more kinds of notebooks than we can remember with more pen types than we have time to list.
Our brain injury has made our typing so frustrating that recently we've resorted to using dictation, particularly at the end of the day when every attempt to type an "a" sets Caps Locks on and every attempt to hit the Delete key only registers backslashes.
We've even resorted to Apple's Writing Tools to "proofread" our scrambled text. We've found it less than helpful, primarily because it has its own style book different from ours. Its style book might be known as the Church Lady of Punctuation. Good for kids who need guidance but not adults with attorneys on retainer. Apparently machine learning doesn't learn from our machine.
But on more romantic note, we still think fondly this time of year when we would hunt all over the city for a new Leathersmith notebook in red leather with gilt edges and the year embossed in gold on the cover.
Perhaps the perfect companion for that would have been the subject of today's slide show: a 1930s Salz Brothers 18K gold Peter Pan pen.
This is a very small pen, just 2.25 inches long (about as long as a little finger) but big enough to be a fountain pen, although you have to fill it with with an eyedropper. The size 0 nib is rather competent as this video review demonstrates at the end:
So it's a real pen although more of a jewelry pendant to be worn around the neck by a flapper, one supposes, than to be relied on without a bottle of ink nearby.
