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Pelikan-101N-1937-PenDen-Fountain-Pen-Restoration-and-Sales-IMG1444
April 8, 2025
Musing

Why vintage?

We communicate in a very inefficient and dated format. In this digital era, we have grown accustomed to instant messages and predictive models that can finish our sentences without anything more than a keystroke. I now understand we have programs that can write entire articles for us, and we need only tell it a rough outline. While I do not understand the need for such amazing efficiency, I respect that others may. We can choose from a multitude of “fonts” and simulated scripts that appear, upon casual...

by Mark
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Chapter-Duh-Blog-Post-Mark-Harcourt-PenDen-Fountain-Pen-Restoration-and-Sales
March 15, 2025
Musing

Chapter Duh

Some twenty odd years ago, I was walking with my spouse along south Main Street, Vancouver, and we came upon a peculiar shop, called “Bob’s Old Stuff Two”, owned by the late Bob Blais (God, I miss his shop!), RIP. He had a sandwich board out front that said “We Buy Watches”, in homage to his love of collecting and trading watches. I looked at my partner, and noted the small gold Deco Swiss watch on my substantial wrist and wandered in. Bob, conspicuous in his Hawaiian...

by Mark
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