You may have noticed that the blog has not been updated in some time. Really, it’s because I’ve said what I had to say. I’m sure there are a great many pens that I have not written about but I’m not buying pens in quantity anymore and, for me, a pen isn’t a pen unless I handle it.
I’m not looking for suggestions for ways to continue the blog. It really is complete. For those who are using it as a reference it’s best to read all blog entries that refer to a particular pen as mysteries were solved and questions answered, giving a clearer picture of the history of the pens in question.
There have been many people who have contributed valuable comments to the blog. Those include collectors who have been with me over the years offering their broad and profound knowledge of obscure brands. Equally valuable are those comments from people who wished to share their experience of using an individual pen. So many thanks to you all for your company on this long and occasionally bumpy ride.
There are those (Robalone comes to mind) who have contributed photographs and information about rare and interesting pens that they have come across. Always the plagiarist, I have been only too happy to make use of these, with thanks.
The blog will always remain available for reading or dipping into. It won’t go away in my lifetime or even thereafter.
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Thank you Deb for all the hard work, valuable information and interesting topics. I will continue to reference your blog as a valuable source of information that it is. All the best. Enjoy.
Dear Deb, it’s sad to think we won’t be hearing from you again, but you have done more than your fair share for all of us, and have left us with an invaluable reference library. Many thanks for your hard work.
I really enjoyed our scanty correspondence, and still admire your written hand (individual, legible, and stylish without an excess of calligraphic pedanticism.)
We hope you find some more furry companions along the way.
All the very best from Decimus and the Old Bloke from the Billabong.
so true, all things must pass. I will miss reading your blog everyday.
still, it’s a comprehensive ,entertaining and holographic reference work which as you say ….is going nowhere 😊
I for one read it almost daily and see no reason to stop.
thank you for your work , and I hope the retirement is as relaxing as it deserves to be.
regards to you and Gordon.
A saddening announcement to read on my return from holiday…
Yours has been one of the few online voices commenting on English vintage pens and has been enormously valuable to me in extending the depth and breadth of my appreciation of the field.
There are other reference resources [Steve Hull’s books, and Andy Russell’s] which one can draw upon for particular minutiae of a company’s history; but your hands-on commentaries have captured the lively enthusiasm which one feels as a collector/user of low-profile English pens of the 1930s and 40s.
Thank you for sharing so much of your insights and discoveries.
Your departure leaves a hole in the pen scene and we’ll/I’ll miss you.
Best wishes for whatever new adventures you embark upon…