Stipula Etruria Magnifica Yellow Black Ebonite
A beautiful resin extra large sized fountain pen created by Stipula.
Etruria Etruria Magnifica Yellow Black Ebonite
Our 2025 travels includes a trip to Italy and that mean a visit with Marco at Novelli Pen in Rome. Novelli located on the small street of via di San Marcello, at number 22, is in the historical downtown centre of Rome, very close to the Trevi Fountain. Can't make it to Rome? Visit the store via their website: www.novelli.it -- but nothing beats a personal visit.
I fell in love with pen the moment I saw it, and that became stronger and stronger each time I dipped the pen and wrote. The Etruria Magnifica Pirite kept coming up with the pens I would place on the right hand side of the try - the serious contenders. I enjoy my other Magnifica size Stipa pens, so I knew I would really enjoying writing with this larger pen.
I enjoy Stipula pens. I visited the company a number of years ago and I was impressed with the attention to detail and the degree on hands-on workmanship that goes into the creation of their pens. I have a number of Etruria pens in my collection, I enjoy the shape of the Etruria line. Stipula is one of a few Italian pen companies that produce their own nibs. In 2013 they were able to recover and restore nib equipment used by Globus, a old Italian company known for its nibs that was located in Bologna.
The pen clip is engraved with the Stipula straw design. That design relates back to his history of Tuscany during the Roman Empire. "Stipulation" in Latin means straw. The Romans had a ritual to break straw as a sign of an agreement. The metal of the clip and the cap band has a brushed finish giving the pen a different look. The cap band also has the straw motive.
Stipula's namemark is engraved on the body of the pen.
The pen has a closed length of 152 mm, the body measures 131 mm, the cap is 72 mm long and the diameter of the grip is 16mm. For compairson, the pen is about 9 mm longer and 1.5 mm widder than the regular Etruria. It is not the length that you notice, but the girth of the pen as being larger.
The pen is a pleasure to write withy. Yes it is beg, but the pen is light and well balanced. I have used it both capped and uncapped. The nib section has a slight hourglass shape which makes the pen very comfortable to hold. A cartridge/convertor fills and holds the ink.
The pen is fitted with a steel nib, but I did not think this was any type of compromise. This is one of the smoothest writing pens I have. It is simply hard to believe it is a steel nib. The Stub 1.1 nib creates a beautiful line of ink.
The ebonite is light and warm to the touch. So it has a different feel than a resin pen. The pattern of yellow lines on a black body are very mutted in low light. I kept referring the pen as the "green one". But the yellow pattern really comes out when direct light hits the pen.
