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An enthusiastic and experimental marketing professional who has been marveling at the captivating world of writing instruments for nearly 30 years. Today, he is no longer primarily interested in collecting fountain pens and mechanical pencils, but rather the stories, curiosities, and human tales behind them that make our writing instruments truly special and unique.

A marketing communication adventurer who builds domestic and international brands with his advertising agency. Leaving the keyboard behind, he enjoys immersing himself in various hobbies from vinyl record collecting to gastronomy to fountain pens. He discovered the latter a few years ago and has since been seeking the answer to how so much creativity, engineering achievement, and good stories can fit into a single tiny writing instrument.

He graduated as a mechanical engineer from the University of Heavy Industry (currently the University of Miskolc), but when choosing his profession, he was already looking for where he could study more computer science. Thus, although his diploma states he is a Process Designer Engineer, he may not have worked a minute in his closely related profession. He has been teaching computer science since the beginning and considers himself a lucky person who can engage in what he loves. Like many, he initially had a superficial relationship with pens in high school, which later became closer. He has not yet achieved his goal of learning to write beautifully, but he has not given up. From time to time, he explores various writing instruments, which led him to the Facebook group „Pens and Watches,” where he encountered numerous useful information, ideas, and friends. He is not really a collector of pens in the strict sense of the word. He seeks the beauty and possibilities inherent in pens.

A businessman living in Budapest who enjoys traveling in his limited free time and consciously seeks quality experiences. A few years ago, he became interested in fountain pens, papers, and inks. During his foreign travels, he always visits the best paper and stationery stores in the given country to enrich his collection with special or interesting pieces.

A lawyer on weekdays, a fan of pens, watches, cars, and golf on weekends. He has been passionate about fountain pens since he was six years old, completed watchmaking school, can always polish a cylinder head, and is always available for 18 holes. His first pen was a constantly leaking Chinese Parker 51 imitation, so in elementary school, his fingers were ink-stained more often than he raised his hand in class. He has no favorite brand or era. He likes it when an object is not only beautiful but also functional.

A certified electrical engineer. After graduating from Pécs Nagy Lajos High School, he graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. His first job was in computer operation and mathematics education at the Pollack Mihály Technical College in Pécs. He works on IT, corporate management, and research projects ranging from international corporations to domestic small and medium-sized enterprises. He is passionate about precise and usable documentation of projects. Since childhood, alongside his architect and mechanical engineer parents, he has been searching for, loving, and using fine, functional, and aesthetic writing instruments.

A Hungarian who has settled in Japan but regularly returns to Pannonia whenever he can. After a forty-year hiatus, he rediscovered fountain pens in Japan, partly because the Japanese second-hand market hides many exciting (and affordable!) treasures. He is now in the process of quitting, but he still enjoys helping anyone interested in Japanese writing instruments.

Primarily, he prefers technical writing instruments and the design of the 60s and 70s. Hence, his two favorite brands are Rotring and Lamy. He lives in Budapest.

Professional firefighter, mechanical engineer, his main area of expertise is automotive technology. He utilizes his professional studies in the natural science and technical foundational training of firefighters and in the operator training of the vehicles they use. His love for fountain pens and writing instruments began in elementary school, and he has passionately used them since 2018, primarily interested in Italian-made ones, but his collection also includes Japanese, German, and American models.

Pen restorer, a lover of his profession and its last Mohican. The profession has been passed down through three generations in his family. For nearly 30 years, he has been building his writing instrument collection, attending domestic and international fairs, and “sick” fountain pens arrive for repair from all over the world. A part of his collection has been admired by the public at several domestic exhibitions. He lives near Budapest with his family.

A mechanical engineer whose specialty is solving problems related to screw connections and flanges, as well as machining threads with cutting. He is a fan of numismatics, watches, (fountain) pens, and cars. His articles discuss the relationship between the latter two. Nowadays, owning a single piece is not the main focus; rather, his interest lies in acquiring specific knowledge related to the given topic, discovering deeper connections and relationships that move a particular field.

He studied at BME and then practiced aircraft design in Germany and Austria. Through his profession, he is the holder of a patent and a design registration for a fountain pen. He lives in Budapest with his family and spends his free time working with a handcrafted fountain pen.

Y generation architect engineer. Since 2009, he has been lost in the world of fountain pens, which then dragged him into the endless depths of calligraphy and photography along with social media. Quickly climbing back from there, he has rather remained at a hobby level. He enjoys sketching, drawing, and considers putting thoughts on paper as therapy.

Journalist, an external contributor to the daily newspaper Új Néplap published in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. In addition, he has published in Magyar Nemzet, Napi Magyarország, Reformátusok Lapja, and several other press products that still exist today or have since ceased to exist. His area of expertise is cultural history, history, particularly the interwar period. He works in his study accompanied by a smaller collection primarily consisting of fountain and mechanical pencils, pen holders, ink wells, ink containers, pen knives, and a few mostly still in use fountain pens.

The architect has been drawn to drawing and the arts since childhood, and after obtaining his degree, he worked with film sets and mainly focused on the renovation of historic buildings.