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#1 AZuniga

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Posted 15 January 2015 - 02:19 AM

I was talking to someone today about this pen I have had for quite sometime but never saw another one, then I thought maybe someone here knows about it.

I know now it was produced in Japan from the mid twenties to the mid fifties. The three letters of the name should mean Sea, Sky and Star (although that would be in English of course) It is an eyedropper and when I first saw it I did not think it was a pen. It is very light. It took me some time to open it (a hair drier heat).

Any information will be welcomed.

 

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#2 BrianMcQueen

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Posted 15 January 2015 - 02:35 PM

I don't have any more information for you about it, but I would like to say that it is really cool!



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Posted 15 January 2015 - 03:51 PM

I think the S.S.S. might stand for "Sun, Sea, Star." They were also known as San-Esu in Japan. I've seen S.S.S. pens on Japanese auction sites, but never one that looked like that. Very cool! :)



#4 AZuniga

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Posted 15 January 2015 - 04:57 PM

Thank you for your comments...

 

quinden, you are right, I do not know why I wrote Sky instead of Sea...

 

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#5 Norm

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Posted 15 January 2015 - 07:36 PM

I believe these pens were carried in a sleeve pocket in a Kimono and were designed to keep the expensive kimono from getting stained with ink. 



#6 AZuniga

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Posted 16 January 2015 - 12:21 AM

I believe these pens were carried in a sleeve pocket in a Kimono and were designed to keep the expensive kimono from getting stained with ink. 

Norm,

 

That sounds logical... thanks for the tip !



#7 Norm

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Posted 16 January 2015 - 01:00 AM

I wonder why the S/s are backwards.



#8 AZuniga

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Posted 16 January 2015 - 09:55 PM

I wonder why the S/s are backwards.

Good observation, that was one of my first questions, unanswered until now... I never heard of a die (I believe that is the right word in English for the Spanish "troquel", the plate used to print the letters) inverting the print, but maybe it is possible... I was thinking on the inversion of the image from the graphic arts; from a lithographic stone to the lithograph, for example... or woodcuts and so on. Maybe someone here with more knowledge about "dies" will clarify.






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