FABER
CASTELL
LIMITED EDITION
PEN
OF THE YEAR 2004
AMBER
FOUNTAIN PEN
Faber-Castell Pen of the Year 2004 Amber
Fountain Pen
Amber has long inspired the imagination of
mankind. Thus, antique myths tell the story of how ,after the death of
the solar god's son Phaeton, his mourning sisters transformed into black
poplars and their tears into amber.
Approximately 45 million years ago, subtropical forests covered the
contemporary Baltic Staes. Tree resins dripped onto the ground,
deposited there, consolidated and transformed to amber.
In the 17th and 18th century in Europe,
amber was a national treasure of which Electors and Kings of
Brandenburg-Prussia were almost exclusively in charge. They had
manufactured artistic goods and extravagant stae presents, among others
the famous Amber Room that was handed over to Czar Peter the Graet by
the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I.
PEN OF THE YEAR 2004 - Fountain Pen in
Magnum Size
Barrel handcrafted of real amber by the
artists of the Amber Room in St. Petersburg
Piston filling system
All metal parts covered with precious platinum
Pens are numbered
Nib is 18 carat bicolor
Because Amber is a natural material, coloration may vary.
