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Author: Pilot-Namiki
Title: PILOT-NAMIKI: Angel Fish Vintage Maki-e Fountain Pen by Yoyoyama Geki
Place Published: Japan
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Date Published: c.1950
Description: Black lacquer ground sprinkled with gold dust, decorated with gold, green and red hiramaki-e, depicting an angel fish and water weeds. Gold-plated Pilot clip, peaked black captop and endpiece cabochons. Signed by Yoyoyama Geki. Lever-filler. 131mm. #4 14K gold Pilot Warranted heart-vent nib, wonderfully flexible. Good condition, scuffs, rubs, some surface residue, nicks to lacquer at rim of cap.

An excellent example of an "R model" postwar Pilot-Namiki pen, with edges of cap and barrel tapered, black captop and endpiece cabochons, and kikuza clip attached to the captop. These early postwar examples are increasingly difficult to find, particularly with such fine ornamentation.

– Murakami, Tomihiro. Dunhill-Namiki and Lacquer Pens. [Sakura City: 2000], p. 74. "It is rare to find this type of lacquer pen on the market like the ones manufactured before the war, and they are highly valued due to their scarcity."***********************
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