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The pen at the top of your view is a
Rotring Skynn. Its gimmick is the soft collar or ruff extending back from the nib, avowedly to make the experience of writing easier and more ergonomic. Writing may or may not be a soft art for you. Certainly it is quite comnfortable, but of greater value is the nib, which is robust enough that after a fortnight of writing I have not yet bent it back into unusability. Ultimately, Rotring is owned by Newell Rubbermaid, which also owns the Parker marque that defines the experience of inexpensive British fountain pens. The Skynn is a low-cost pen, costing about $20.
About the same price is the
Muji fountain pen beneath it. I'm not even sure if the US has Muji, but in essence it is a low-cost Japanese store that has become a slightly less low-cost provider of minimalist furnishings for affected Englanders. Standard cartridges rattle in the long metal body, but seem to work fine. Although less comfortable for lengthy periods of writing, I like the aesthetics of this pen - it looks like a scalpel, which is an obvious metaphor but not a profitless one.
