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O C T O B E R / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 8 • N u M B E R 3 1
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Features
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Hand on the Bible
Visconti celebrates 20 years
48
Unlimited Creativity
Montegrappa’s newest
62
A Family Affair
Atelier Simoni speaks to luxury
64
The Politics of Pens
Touching history
32
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O C T O B E R / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 8 • N u M B E R 3 1
Short Features
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Lessons to Learn Part II
My visit to the Nakaya pen company
54
What Is It? Part II
Pen look-alikes are on point
68
Confessions of a Parker
Pen Addict
Tale of a Ribbon Pen
40
d e p a r t m e n t s
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Editor’s Note
Technical Editor’s Note
Ask Stylus
News
Market
Travel
Road Test
To the Point
Collecting
Classifieds
Contact Information
Crossword Puzzle
Postscript
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HaNd ON
Bible
Visconti celebrates 20 years
B y N a N c y O l s O N
“My interest in starting a pen
company was, above all, about
my passion for pens,” says Dante
Del Vecchio of the decision to
launch Visconti in 1988. He and
Luigi Poli, who retired from Vis-
conti in 2006, were collectors of
vintage writing instruments and
friends irst. But the two thought
something was missing in the
offerings of the then-existing
pen companies—and perhaps
they could help. In their opin-
ion, there was little they would
consider as coveted collectibles
of tomorrow. “The last pen I’d
loved was the Sheaffer Snorkel
[introduced in 1952],” Del Vec-
chio says. But now, as the com-
pany celebrates twenty years in
business, it seems that Visconti
has set the world of writing in-
struments on end, offering ex-
citing pens for everyday use and
limited editions that would make
any collector proud.
Manufacturing, design and
pens have been in the respective
bloodlines of the partners for at
least two generations. “My father
had a large window frame factory
in Italy, and my grandfather was a
[metal] sculptor who won awards
for his works in the 1920s and ’30s
in Paris and Rome,” says Del Vec-
chio, whose wife Carla is also in-
strumental in the company’s pen
designs. “Luigi’s father, Gugliel-
mo, spent 35 year at Pelikan [pen
company] Italy, and it was he who
encouraged us to use celluloid,
‘the queen of all materials.’”
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