======================================================================== Nib Noise * Volume 15 Number 9 * December 2016 ======================================================================== Welcome to Nib Noise. We hope you'll enjoy reading this month's issue. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NEWSLETTER! For comments or questions, send email to: richard@richardspens.com To subscribe or unsubscribe, please DO NOT use the links in the footer of this email. Instead, visit the Free Email Newsletter page on our site: http://www.richardspens.com/?info=nibnoise ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Happy Holidays! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To all our friends, we extend our warmest greetings and wishes for a happy December holiday season. Whether you will be celebrating Chanukah, Christmas, Mawlid an-Nabī, Rōhatsu, Dhanu Sankranti, or some other festival, we wish you the very best, now and throughout the coming year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Special Holiday Edition of the Monthly "Pen Show Tray" *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've pulled out all the stops for this month's "Pen Show Tray." The variety is still there as always, but there are a greater proportion of pens in B+ condition, so you can pick a really NICE one for each of your special pen collector friends (and perhaps one for yourself, too). Get there early, because when the Tray opens itself for sale at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time, the rush will make Black Friday look like a summer stroll. http://www.richardspens.com/?pens=tray ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Remember, Next Month's Tray Will Be a Day Late! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Next month is January, and as we do every year, we will delay the "Pen Show Tray" until the evening of January 1, so that you can enjoy New Year's Eve without needing to whip out your iPhone and snag your share of the pens on the Tray. Happy New Year! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** MORE PEN CHESTS! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your holiday gift list, no doubt, has a pen collector or three, right? Don has almost 30 new cigar box pen chests ($29-$49) of various sizes, shapes, and colors for that special someone -- even if that someone is you! Don knows that pen collecting can be an expensive hobby, and his budget storage helps you save money for what you really want...more pens. Bonus deal: Buy three, get one free (Don's choice). http://www.richardspens.com/?acc=boxes Oh, and one more thing. Don dumped the cheap camera he used to shoot last month's boxes, so the pix are better this time around. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Barbara'a Attic *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For this month, Barbara has added a second tray to her Attic. It's a special tray, filled with ten nominally identical Sheaffer Snorkel Admirals that will make great stocking stuffers for the budding repairers among your pen collector friends. http://www.richardspens.com/?acc=attic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** The RichardsPens 2017 Calendar Is Ready *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I finished up my 2017 calendar at the beginning of November, and it's available for sale at CafePress NOW. The good thing about this calendar, if the great pens on it weren't enough, is that it won't go out of stock. Buy all you want, they'll print more! We do not stock these calendars; you order them from CafePress, and CafePress prints and delivers them. Please note, the calendar starts by default on the month in which you order it. PLEASE SET THE STARTING MONTH FOR JANUARY SO THE CALENDAR WILL LAST ALL YEAR! http://www.cafepress.com/richardspens.1674131464 Remember, if you buy in the next few hours, check before you buy to be sure you're getting the 2017 calendar, not last year's version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Our Next Pen Show Will Be in Baltimore *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We're all settled in for a cozy New Hampshire winter. We've got firewood, sweaters, blankets, c, gloves, and fuel for the snowblower, so we're ready. The next time we're going to venture out on the road will be over the first week in March, for the Baltimore-Washington International Pen Show. This shindig is a Bert Oser show, so you know it's gonna be fun. We'll see you there? For much more information, visit the show's Web site: http://www.baltimorepenshow.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Broad Strokes *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beginning in 2007, Ron Dutcher built and maintained a database called The Manhattan Pen Makers Project, collecting the names of some 200+ pen makers that were based in New York City, with their addresses, and he was in the process of adding information about each one. That database disappeared around the end of 2012 when Ron's site went away. Because Ron, too, seems to have disappeared from the pen world, I've retrieved the Manhattan Pen Makers Project from the depths of the Internet, polished it up, added some information to it, and put it up on my site, with full credit where credit is due. http://www.richardspens.com/?tools=manhattan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Pens That Write Right! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unless otherwise requested at the time of sale or unless otherwise noted in Barbara's Attic, I personally tune each new nib we sell at no extra charge before shipment. I test the nib in a pen filled with Waterman Mysterious Blue ink and write with it on paper of better than average quality, adjusting as necessary to bring it up to the RichardsPens.com "factory" standard for smoothness and flow. If you order a new nib with customization (gold nibs only), I'll modify the nib (for an extra charge), and we will ship it without any extra delay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Follow Us on the Internet with Facebook and Twitter *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'd like to be liked on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NashuaPenSpa And you're invited to follow our occasional tweets on Twitter: @RichardsPens ======================================================================== If you received this newsletter from Richard Binder, you are a Nib Noise subscriber. If it came from someone else, I invite you to subscribe. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please DO NOT use the links in the footer of this email. Instead, visit the Free Email Newsletter page on our site: http://www.richardspens.com/?info=nibnoise Note: We will never sell your name or email address. 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