[Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 35, Issue 150

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:14 PM, Jayanand wrote:

>  if you want the
> sensation of calligraphy, buy yourself a good Sailor pen with one  
> of their
> specialty nibs - when you see Japanese prints, and write with these  
> nibs,
> you realize that these pen nibs could have been conceived and made  
> only in
> Japan....
>
> http://www.nibs.com/SailorSpecialtyNibs.htm


The Sailor pen prices boggle the imagination. And I always through  
that Leicas were expensive. About half a century back I used to have  
a Waterman broad tip fountain pen that wrote with a look similar to  
the Sailor nib. I recall that it cost less than $5. Of course it  
wasn't imported.

Larry Z