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HisNibs.com update -- One Touch Stylus & long-lost Dukes

June 12th, 2011

Greetings,

First up is Monteverde's new One Touch Stylus...the perfect accompaniment to the touchscreen in your life.

I unearthed a few of the most popular Duke and Uranus models of times gone by....but only a few....so first come, first served! Although new, they don't have the original boxes, so all are available at substantial savings.

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* Monteverde One Touch Stylus
* Duke Copper Temple
* Duke 960 Cubist
* Duke/Uranus Unfall Old Man
* 'His Nibs' page on Facebook

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Monteverde One Touch Stylus



Monteverde, known for luxury and innovation, has developed the next evolution in fine pens. The One Touch Stylus writing instrument offers a brand new smart design that incorporates a soft rubber stylus for touchscreens into the top of the convenient click-action retractable ballpoint pen.

The round silky finished stylus is made of a unique conductive rubber compound that makes it as responsive as your finger. This universally designed stylus can be used with all capacitive touchscreen and panel devices such as: Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Nano, ATMs, Airport Kiosks, All Touch Screen Smart Phones, Motorola Droid, Droid X, Droid Incredible, Samsung Focus, Vibrant, HTC EVO, Desire, Blackberry Torch, Storm, Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, Navigation GPS systems and more.

Click the link below to see a video of the pen in action.

See the video here... - http://www.hisnibs.com/One_Touch_Stylus.htm

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Duke Copper Temple



I was saddened when my main supplier in China was unable to get a number of very popular Duke and Uranus models a couple of years ago. Well, I still don't have a reliable source for the following models, but I'm happy to again offer what I've found.

The Copper Temple was one of the first Duke pens I introduced to the U.S. many years ago and is one of Duke's less expensive pens. Measuring 5-3/8" capped, and 6-1/4" posted, this slender beauty has a unique copper finish to its cap and section. This copper coloring is carried forth to the metal 'jewel' at the end of the black resin barrel.

The 'temple' reference is taken from the design cue adorning the top of the cap, which evokes the pinnacle of many Chinese temples, here rendered with a 'jewel' of the same black resin used in the barrel and the element partially eclipsing the rear of the nib (both the scalloped nib shape and resin covering are reminiscent of S. T. Dupont pens from France in that respect).

More photos here... - http://www.hisnibs.com/921.htm

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Duke 960 Cubist



The DUKE 960 Cubist was quite departure from what Duke had done in the past. Making use of the traditional Chinese art of cloisonné, the artists at Duke produced a beautiful ultra-modern cubist design of.....well, you'll have to decide.

The cap on the Cubist model is a riot of color, with pink, blue, white, red and brown represented, encased in thick metal designs.

See more here.... - http://www.hisnibs.com/duke_960.htm

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Duke/Uranus Unfall Old Man



What comes in a DUKE pen box, has a clip and body emblazoned with 'Uranus' and sports a DUKE nib and piston converter? What combines a super-smooth, matte palladium-plated finish, interspersed with sections of a rubberized material that evokes a pebble garden? What's named after a rounded Chinese toy (called the Daruma in Japanese), decades before the 'Weeble' wobbled, which bears absolutely no resemblance to its namesake? Why, it could only be a pen with a name as confused as it is -- the Unfall Old Man .

More photos here.... - http://www.hisnibs.com/unfall_old_man.htm

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Norman Haase
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