Sailor Limited Edition King Cobra Fountain Pen

Sailor Limited Edition King Cobra Fountain Pen

Sailor Limited Edition King Cobra Fountain Pen is fitted with 21K Sailor King Cobra pen nib resembling the menacing head and fangs of the King Cobra Snake. The World's longest venomous snake up to 6 metres long.  Found predominantly in forests from India through SE Asia to Indonesia and the Philippines.  In the Indian subcontinent this snake has significant cultural influence. Makie Artist Nishihara and nib specialist Nagahara Nobuyoshi of Sailor Pen have combined to create this masterpiece.  Mr. Nagahara Nobuyoshi has since  passed on in 2013, making this Sailor King Cobra pen nib hotly pursued by pen users and pen collectors. The special " Sailor King Cobra" pen nib is crafted by the addition of another wide nib beneath the regular nib.  The resulting tip is then specially cut and shaped and polished to an extra wide shape providing extremely broad side strokes and smooth ink flow at all angles of writing.  Resembling a cobra's head this special nib is one of the supreme creation of the experienced nib craftsman.  Some says, it looks like a closed up paw. The King Cobra nib is for writing unique brush like lines in a very broad (6B) width. Limited edition of only 28 examples of Sailor King Cobra pen nib will be fitted to this collection.

About Sailor Pen Japan

Sailor Pen Japan was founded in 1911 by Kyugoro Sakata, an engineer from the historic naval port of Hiroshima in Japan, who was introduced to a Fountain Pen brought from England by a sailor friend. He was determined to produce a finely crafted Japanese writing instrument with the highest specification and writing experience.

The company was named Sailor Pen with the aspiration of expanding this home grown name, Sailor Pen, internationally like the voyages of a Sailor.

Sailor Pen became the first company to produce Fountain Pens for domestic Japanese market and it is credited to be one of the oldest established pen companies in Japan. Sailor Pen has continued to maintain its heritage of quality and technical excellence over more than a 100 years since then.

Today, Sailor Pens are remembered by any avid fountain pen users as the gold standard in Japanese fountain pen nib making from its late nib artisan, Nagahara Nobuyoshi 長原宣義. Many nib designs by Sailor Pen are hotly sought after by collectors for its extraordinary writing ability like the Sailor Concorde nib which allows one to write in both fine nib and brush strokes font style on just one fountain pen nib by turning it upside down.

Sailor Pen is also well known for making Japanese makie fountain pens which are usually made by master Japanese artisans in Kaga 加賀 makie style. Notable Sailor Limited Edition fountain pens made to commemorate its 100^th Anniversary in Arita, Sailor Limited Edition Noto Nogoro Fountain pens and Nagahara Nobuyoshi’s Retirement Pens are just some of the many popular fountain pens made by the Japanese pen manufacturer based in Hiroshima.