There are really no wonders in this world, do you believe it? In 2004, a British woman inherited a pen from her late ex-husband, and after 17 years, the price of this pen actually rose to 380,000, which sounds a bit strange, but this thing really happened in reality, what happened? Let's take a look!
Jean Florence, a resident of Dorset, England, England, worked for a British charity department before retiring and was only an obscure figure in the local area, but in January 2021, she became known for a Japanese-made fountain pen. The pen was inherited from her late ex-husband.
Florence's ex-husband Charles was very keen on collecting all kinds of oriental art, especially a painted pen produced in Japan, in the 30s of the last century, Charles spent about 900 pounds when he bought this pen, he bought it back, he loved this pen, usually only for appreciation, reluctant to write.
In 2004, Charles died of illness, and Florence inherited all of Charles's property as a widow, including the pen, which Florence knew was expensive because her ex-husband had bought it while traveling to Japan with her, but she did not expect that the price of the pen would soar so high over time.
So when she first got the pen, she didn't pay much attention to the pen, just put it in the box and put it in the box, and she even had the idea of giving the pen to a friend, but fortunately, in the end, it didn't make the trip.
On January 29, 2021, the well-known American treasure show "Antique Roadshow" came to Christchurch Park in Ipswich, England to record, Florence heard about it, immediately reported on the official website of "Antique Roadshow" and immediately took this pen to the recording site of Christchurch Park.
Mark's whole eye lit up when Florence handed the pen to the antiques expert Mark Hill, who examined it carefully and asked Florence, "Do you remember when you last wrote it?" ”
"I don't remember." Florence replied.
Mark said: "Well, actually, I haven't written a letter in a long time, I can't even remember when the last time I wrote with a pen, I occasionally try to do Christmas cards, but you know, with email and the advent of the digital age, we all kind of forget how to write." ”
Antiques expert Mark continues:
If you were able to write a letter with this pen in the 1920s and 1930s, then you would definitely be a fairly wealthy person, and I guess your ancestors must have been very rich. The style of this pen is clearly from a Japanese manufacturing company.
You see the signature on the pen, this is the unique logo of the kimono pen, we all know that Baile, Shule, Platinum is the three major pen brands in Japan, of which the high-end brand of The Paramount Pen - The Parallel Pen is ranked second only to The German Montblanc in the world.
In 1918, Ryosuke Mizuki, who was a professor at the Tokyo Shipping School, manufactured a new type of fountain pen, and then Ryosuke Wagi and his colleague Masao Sugame established the Wagi Manufacturing Company, and in 1925, Ryosuke Mizuki hired Matsuda Ryosuke, a national treasure of the Japanese knee art industry, and produced the world's first surimi painted fountain pen in the same year, and in 1938, the company was renamed the Baile Group.
Baile's high-end brand - and wood pen, can be said to be no less than the world's first Montblanc, a top and wood painting pen, just paint, drawing, spraying, polishing four steps to repeat more than 130 times, time to take at least 3 months, looking at the world, such a complicated step is only the wood pen to play, and in the wood company, for decades, can be on the pen to land on the pen, a total of only 18, so you just need to see the wood pen on the drop, Its price is definitely more than 10,000 yuan.
In 1996, Wamu Pen cooperated with Dunhill road to launch four limited edition pens, the result of which was auctioned for 20 million yen, and in addition to the painting technique, there is also the so-called sinking gold series, which requires the first carving of the pattern on the surface of the raw lacquer, and then filled with gold leaf or gold powder, and the whole pen is directly scrapped with a knife.
Antiques expert Mark said that Florence's pen has at least eighty or ninety years of history, belongs to the early style of the wooden painted pen, extremely precious, Florence asked the expert how much her pen can be worth, expert Mark finally estimated a high price of 45,000 pounds for this pen, equivalent to about 380,000 yuan.
This pen was inherited from her late ex-husband in 2004, and who would have thought that after 17 years, the price of this pen would rise to 380,000 yuan.
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