VISCONTI Red Urushi Ban-ei First Series Limited Edition 200 Fountain Pen

 

Japanese eyedropper Fountain Pen (torpedo design) coated with Red Urushi

Warranted 14 Karat Gold Nib w/ hearth hole signed by GK, nibmeister Kabutogi Ginjiro (兜木銀次郎)

Limited Edition: #25 out of the 200 pieces produced in 1991

Year: 1991

Provenance: purchased in 1991 from the E.E. Ercolessi pen shop in Milan, Italy

Original retail price in 1990 was: £660.000,00 Italian Lira

 

Measurements: 

 

Length closed: 145 mm
Length open: 126.5 mm
Length posted: 176 mm
Diameter: 16.5 mm
Weight (dry): 25.3 g
Ink deposit: 3.3 ml

 

URUSHI PEN Red Urushi Limited Edition Fountain Pen. Year 1991. Serial number: 025/91. Clip engraved "Urushi".

Warranted 14 Karat Pen "GK" Nib with a charming original patina. 

Never used, never inked. Rare. 

Comes with box and papers. According to the booklet only 200 pieces per year were produced. 

This is N°25 out of the 200 pieces produced in 1991. Bought in 1991 from Ercolessi pen shop in Milan, Italy.

The specific rolled sheet of paper with the title “Urushi Pen - Lacca Giapponese”  included in the black squared Visconti display box describes, in Italian, the virtues of the “lacca giapponese” (urushi, of course) and speaks of its long history.

It also includes instructions on how to fill and use the pen. but not naming any pf the real producers of the pen.

Finally, it declares that the pen was part of a limited edition of 200 pens per year, but it does not disclose for how long. 

This particular unit was made in 1991 as it is numbered as 25/91. In all probability, The plan was to make some every year, but they stopped production.

As cleverly pointed out by Bruno Taut (Crónicas Estilográficas) the pen is, most likely, a Ban-ei made by Sakai Eisuke (lathe work), Kabutogi Ginjiro (nib), Tsuchida Shuichi (assembly), and Takahashi Kichitaro (urushi coating).

 

For more information about Ban-Ei and Eisuke Sakai see. Fountain Pen Of Japan (A. Lambrou & M. Sunami) / Minor Manufacturers / Ban -Ei.

 

Excerpt from the specific leaflet (Italian language only):

 

Urushi Pen - Lacca Giapponese

 

La laccatura Urushi è famosa per essere unica nel suo genere, conosciuta da più di 600 anni é la miscela di Lacca Urushi e Farina Fossile. 

Sono necessarie circa 75 fasi di lavorazione a mano prima di ottenere il prodotto finito.

La più importante di esse è il rivestimento di base durante il quale si aggiunge alla lacca la farina fossile per ottenere una laccatura più resistente e durevole.

Questo procedimento non è presente in altre laccature e conferisce grande preziosità al prodotto.

La penna Urushi è dotata di sistema antigoccia che, anche se mollo

antico, ha ritrovalo attualità nel caso ci si trovi in aereo, ascensori ultraveloci o in montagna.

 

Uso e manutenzione:

 

•            Svitare il blocco pennino tenendo la penna verticalmente

•            Riempire il serbatoio per 80% circa usando il contagocce

•            Richiudere il serbatoio arvriavvitandoil blocco pennino al corpo della penna

•            Aprire lo stantuffo di 2 giri prima di scrivere

•            Chiudere lo stantuffo antigoccia quando la panna non è in uso

•            Si consiglia di non tenere mai la penna completamente scarica

 

Rodaggio: 

A causa della costruzione manuale e del materiale del conduttore si puo avere nei primi tempi un afflusso irregolare di inchiostro.  In questo caso estrarre lo stantuffo di un cm e poi riavvitare. Con l’uso l’afflusso si stabilizza raggiungendo la perfezione in uno o due mesi.

 

Produzione limitata e numerata:

L’Urushi pen viene prodotta in soli 200 esemplari all’anno. Questo è il numero 25/91.

 

Garanzia illimitata – Distribuito da Office Dream 


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