Pens for the Filthy Rich

[deirdre]

My mother sends me an email, wanting to show her coworkers what a fountain pen that costs around twenty grand looks like.

Sadly, I knew entirely too many of them off the top of my head, though I started in the thirteen grand range and went way way way up from there.



First up, AP Limited Editions' Palekh-school handpainted Churches of Moscow, around $15k:


Danitrio Shuten-Doji maki-e pen, about $13k:



Omas's Gold and mother-of-pearl inlay Bernini pen, around $20k:


Caran D'Ache has a clock-themed pen, called the 1010, that runs about $25,000 for this version:



Montblanc Cristobol Colon, about $25,000:



Montblanc Charlie Chaplin, about $25,000: