April 24, 2024
Giuliano Mazzuoli Ducati Officina 4 Tempi Fountain Pen Medium
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Product:This item was at a collector Estate Sale in Silver Spring, MD. It was open box and it was just a collector item. Please see photo for details.Officially inaugurated 16 October 1998, the Ducati Museum presents the history of competition of the house of Panigale Village. Founded as an company electromechanical in 1926 by the Ducati siblings, today it represents the fruit nearly a century of excellence and tradition of Italian genius. The Ducati museum has examples such as the Cucciolo of 1946, with a simple 48 cc motor mounted on a bicycle chassis, and the 98 cc åMariannaå± of 1950, and the designs from engineer Fabio Taglioni.What do bicycles have to do with pens? Nothing. There is only a memory that makes Itallian designer Giuliano Mazzuoli feel a particular bond with the Officina line (Officina in Italian means mechanical workshop). Each pen is inspired by everyday workshop tools. The End Mill pattern is a highly tactile deep cut milled pattern with a spiral cut the length of the barrel.Guiliano Mazzuoli says, "My grandfather Renato had a mechanical workshop with lathes and cutters with which he built handcrafted bicycles. At the beginning of the 1950s, with the advent of motorcycles in a hilly terrain like ours, the activity became obsolete and ended. A few years later, when I was about ten years old, I found and kept
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