Helen showing MAC the new Montblanc Daniel Defoe fountain pen at 151 Bloor Street West Toronto Ontario Canada - 3
The Writers Edition 2014 is paying tribute to Daniel Defoe, an English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist who is most famous for being the author of Robinson Crusoe (1719) - a story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island. Defoe is considered one of the founders of the English novel. Robinson Crusoe marked the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre.
Referring to Crusoe's unsuccessful attempts to escape the island on a raft, the shape of this Limited Edition is modelled on his paddle. Inspired by the colour and structure of wood, the precious resin of the cap and barrel symbolises Robinson Crusoe's island life reduced to the simplest of things. Fine engraving of typical 18th-century ornamentation that decorated book covers at the time adorn the cap ring and cone. The elaborately decorated clip in the shape of a feather is reminiscent of Crusoe's loyal parrot "Poll“, which is found as a fine engraving on the ruthenium-plated 750 gold nib. The filigree engravings on the rings recall the stitching of Robinson's clothing, which he had to make himself after being shipwrecked. The signature of his inventor, Daniel Defoe, is immortalised as a fine engraving on the cap and completes this fascinating Limited Edition in honour of the author of Robinson Crusoe.
Helen showing MAC the new Montblanc Daniel Defoe fountain pen at 151 Bloor Street West Toronto Ontario Canada - 3
The Writers Edition 2014 is paying tribute to Daniel Defoe, an English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist who is most famous for being the author of Robinson Crusoe (1719) - a story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island. Defoe is considered one of the founders of the English novel. Robinson Crusoe marked the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre.
Referring to Crusoe's unsuccessful attempts to escape the island on a raft, the shape of this Limited Edition is modelled on his paddle. Inspired by the colour and structure of wood, the precious resin of the cap and barrel symbolises Robinson Crusoe's island life reduced to the simplest of things. Fine engraving of typical 18th-century ornamentation that decorated book covers at the time adorn the cap ring and cone. The elaborately decorated clip in the shape of a feather is reminiscent of Crusoe's loyal parrot "Poll“, which is found as a fine engraving on the ruthenium-plated 750 gold nib. The filigree engravings on the rings recall the stitching of Robinson's clothing, which he had to make himself after being shipwrecked. The signature of his inventor, Daniel Defoe, is immortalised as a fine engraving on the cap and completes this fascinating Limited Edition in honour of the author of Robinson Crusoe.