Author Archives: lady dandelion

fragments of stockholm – my hometown

People here love to complain about the cold and the snow and the winter – as they do in most countries that experience the four seasons. Well. My take is that since it’s an absolutely fool-proof road to a bad … Continue reading

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two gentlemen from the same era – pelikan 100n & montblanc 136

Simple, refined beauty from the time fountain pens were cherished tools. Very few adornments – just exquisite shape, materials and attention to function. Both come from, roughly, the same era and were probably made in the mid-1940s and came to … Continue reading

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