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Aurora Optima

The Optima has been an elite level fountain pen for over 30 years. The design has been the reinterpreted through many iconic pens, including the Africa, Nebulosa and Sole, and should be a staple in all better pen collections.

Optima hits all the marks when it comes to quality!

• Piston Filled
• Solid gold nib
• Many point sizes
• Ink window
• Made in Italy
• Vibrant turned acrylics

Everything we want from a grail pen and now is the time to own this pen. The price has been the same for several years, while competing pens are considerably more expensive. The price to value is tops in its class!

Aurora has recently added models like the Gialla, Violet and Orange to go along with the timeless marble blue, green and Sole Mio. Take advantage of these special pens and offer your clients a pen that passes the test of time. What are you waiting for?

Full Details HERE

Miya Ebonite

 High-caliber mechanics, classic form and dynamic handling combine in an exclusive small-batch edition from Italy’s style supremos. With qualities to set purist pulses racing, the Mia Ebonite shows once again why Montegrappa is where the rubber meets the road.  

 When it comes to true handcraft, nothing separates the practitioners from the pretenders better than a solid, small-batch release. Montegrappa’s recent catalog has included a string of low-denomination editions made for the curious connoisseur. For this latest excursion into nostalgist nirvana, its craftsmen have turned to premium German ebonite to infuse a classic silhouette with masculine grunt.

Like celluloid (an in-house staple) ebonite is steeped in vintage mystique. Invented by the Goodyear brothers in 1851, this vulcanised hard rubber compound featured extensively in early-century Elmo pens produced in Montegrappa’s Venetian factory. Advancements in technology may have created industrial efficiencies, but few modern solutions can mimic the honesty and intimacy of early-generation industrial materials.

Keen-eyed aficionados will recognize the three mottled ebonite colors from 2019’s WWI-era reissue safety pen, the Mia Carissima. Rich-grain Brick Red, Blackcurrant and Petroleum provide a choice of housings for Montegrappa’s patented 32-tooth click-wheel piston-fill mechanism. This North American exclusive comprises only fifty numbered examples of each, and writers can select from a line-up of 18K gold nibs in four grades with ebonite feeds.

Ebonite’s chemical composition causes sterling silver to tarnish, requiring trim materials to be substituted with high-grade stainless steel. Using Montegrappa’s much-loved Miya silhouette as a starting point, the Mia Ebonite features scaled-back hardware to reinforce its workmanlike honesty: adding grit to glamour. Besides its ultra-true writing performance, Montegrappa’s hallmark rolling-sphere brass clip is the most potent reminder of the Mia Ebonite’s privileged provenance.

What are you waiting for? Rediscover Italian handcraft with true rubber soul.

Available in 14k – EF, F, M & Broad nibs

Full Details HERE

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ystudio

Designed in Taiwan and made by masters with decades of experience, the partners at ystudio aim to use beautiful, long-lasting objects to tell a story about writing. 

Using natural materials, they create writing instruments that are an escape from electronics and a return to using one’s imagination and hands to put words on a page.  

 With an aesthetic that harkens to the past, but is perfectly suited to modern life, ystudio manufactures meaningful tools for daily use that celebrate a joy for the analog.  

 The spirit of the brand is captured in ystudio’s motto, “the weight of words” reminding the user that our hearts and minds can be captured between the lines that we put down on the page with their pens. 

 In Kenro’s quest to find unique brands of the highest quality around the world that tell a story about the importance of writing, we are thrilled to announce that we have added ystudio to our roster and will be representing them as their US distributor. 

 We look forward to continuing to tell the story of ystudio and to assisting our retail partners as they share these products that allow for memories and words that last a lifetime. 

See the full line HERE

Aurora Special Edition Inks

In 2019, Aurora released the very limited Cento Edition Inks as a part of their 100^th year anniversary celebration. With just three Aurora inks to choose from for decades, the introduction of seven inks in one release was a big surprise, welcomed by Aurora loyalists and ink lovers with great enthusiasm. Demand was fierce for the original release, so much so, that Aurora has now re-released the inks, along with the three existing colors, as a Special Edition in 55ml vintage inspired bottles.

They are available for purchase individually for $30 USD.

Many thanks to xfreyari on Instagram for sharing some beautiful photographs of the packaging as well as swabs of each of Aurora’s ten special edition ink colors.