These are two Marukin hard rubber shut-off valve eye-dropper filler fountain pens. Marukin was a maker of high-end fountain pens in the 1930s, and these pens featured in the Winter 2006 Pennant article, “Collecting Japanese Pens,” by Stan Klemanowicz. Both pens were made by Kinichiro Kasahara with the mottled red hard rubber pen c. 1934 and the swirled red, black and cream hard rubber c. 1932. Each has a matching hard rubber section specially shaped to increase tactility when writing. The clips appear to be sourced from a specialty parts maker as they have generic stampings, WARRANTED and NEW CLIP. Marukin made its own nibs and each has a 14 karat gold nib marked MARUKIN’S GOLD PEN. Marukin may have been part of Marukin Shoyu Co., a food maker of one of the top five soy sauce brands in Japan, based on Shodo Island. The logo on the pen boxes matches the logo of the Marukin Shoyu Co.
Last Monday was Saffron’s 20th Birthday IC, it was also her 10th rezz day, AND my 28th Birthday!
I celebrated by having an amazing spa day with my friends, the Sunday was The Daily Prophet’s benefit gala which I hosted and got to spend time RPing with wonderful friends who also helped set up the location.
Whilst the new path I’m on is difficult sometimes it’s wonderful to find new and old friends who reach out, encourage me to RP, and find very creative ways to celebrate with me. (Nessa’s dorm bed looks like a birthday bomb hit it!)
pose @ marukin - [sol] boulangerie
Lipstick @ Izzie's
Hair @ Truth - Bloom
Mask by Neve @ TLC February - mask regarder
Necklace @ Spell - Gaya Necklace RARE
Dress @ Ison - light moon gown
Boa by Plastix @ Collabor88 - Starlet Boa in White
I simply adore sweaters~! Unfortunately, we’re having an abnormally warm autumn here, so no cute sweaters for me. I’ll just live out my fashion dreams in SL, haha.
Head: Catwa Hanako
Eyes: *(OO)*YUKI_Koda Eye 01 (gacha @ The Seasons Story)
Skin: more more. aki skin_RARE2 (catwa) (gacha @ The Seasons Story)
Hair: [^.^Ayashi^.^] Mikasa hair-Blond set (@ The Seasons Story)
Horns**: nani // mallory hair // ombre 2 (@ The Secret Hideout)
Scarf: Luas Autumn Basics - Scarf Pink (gacha @ The Seasons Story)
Sweater: ISON - anne fall sweater (pink) (@ Collabor88)
Camisole: (PP) Ivy Cami {White}
Shorts: Eliavah ~ Parliyah Shorts [FATPACK DENIM]
Socks/Boots: REIGN.- AUTUMN BOOTS AND SOCKS- FATPACK (@ Collabor88)
Feel free to ask if you want to know where any of the decor is from! Off the top of my head, the two animals (bunny and bird) are from past +Half-Deer+ arcade gachas and the rodent habitat dresser is from Jian.
** Note! There is a free shorter version of these horns available as a gift at the event! They can be controlled by the color hud that comes with the hairs! The longer version I’m wearing comes with the hair pack!