[Sold] The Gypsies fountain pen
ZAR11,000.00
Hanna Farmer’s Gypsies is one of her best ever doodles on a fountain pen. She has captured the romantic mystique surrounding these travellers … their wagons, their music and dancing, their beauty and the ability to tell your fortune. For there is a beautiful fortune teller on the barrel, with her crystal ball, her bottles of potions, her tarot cards and candles, with her intricately carved caravan behind her. Below the fortune teller is a dancer, holding her silk shawl festooned with silver sequins that shimmer as she dances, her red dress twirling around her. In tiny detail are three dancers in silhouette with a man playing a guitar or a banjo.
On the cap is a woman playing a flute, two more dancers, a man seated on the steps of a caravan playing a guitar, a dog (I love the dog!), several gypsy wagons including one for the Fortune Teller and another where you can have Tarot Cards read, a golden crescent moon, dream catchers and a sky at dusk swirling with a mauve-to-purple haze.
The pen was made by us at Stanford Pen Studio, painted and doodled by Hanna then coated in a clear resin by ourselves and given its final shape, polished, and buffed. It has a bronze cap band, section ring, and logo medallion in the cap finial, and we have added a section in a custom colour created by Lana that she has named Purplez.
Each of our hand-painted fountain pens is a 1/1 original work of art. If you have seen a pen painted by Hanna that has been sold, you are more than welcome to contact us with a request for a pen on a similar theme, or to request a custom pen in a unique theme of your own.
Nib:
Available in Jowo #6 in polished steel. Please select Fine, Medium or Broad at the check-out.
The Jabulani model
SPECIFICATIONS
This is a gently curvaceous model, with a girth of 16 mm (0,6”), narrowing to a 10,7 mm (0,4”) grip section. The relatively large size of the model is to allow the artist sufficient space for their artwork, and the artwork is encased in a layer of clear resin to protect it from getting damaged during day-to-day use. Our logo medallion is embedded in the cap finial which is ever-so-slightly rounded, and the barrel finial is ever-so-slightly conical. The cap is a flush-fit and does not post. The Jabulani model usually comes with a hand-made, cap band and section ring in either Argentium silver or bronze, though this may differ depending on what best suits the artwork. Custom hand-crafted roll stops can be added.
The Jabulani model
Dimensions:
| mm | inches | |
| Total length (closed) | 157 | 6,2 |
| Length (pen only no cap) | 141 | 5,5 |
| Diameter at widest point (excl. cap) | 16 | 0,6 |
| Width of section at narrowest point | 10,7 | 0,4 |
| Section length | 30 | 1,2 |
| Cap thread | 13 | 0,5 |
We supply our pens with a Jowo #6 nib, alternatively the section can be made to fit a Bock #6 if requested.
Refill type:
Standard international fountain pen converter (supplied) or ink cartridge.
SHIPPING
International shipping to your door via DHL Express is R350 and should take less than 10 days once despatched. Pens are securely packed.
Shipping within South Africa to your door is R60.
