56 Going to the Mountain

In today’s episode, we will be talking about strange things afoot in the ink world and apparently all things Mont Blanc.

Acquisitions

John- New Super Orange Mark One from Studio Neat

Postal Bulletin

Katharine Graham (1917–2001)

United States Postal Service

300th Anniversary Station (Barrington, not the USPS)

Happy Birthday, Barrington!

Noodler’s Anti-Semitic Antics

Controversial earlier this year 

This week’s label issue, not noticed since about ‘18-’19 

Noodler’s Statment 

Goulet Statement 

Anderson Pens and Atlas Stationers are also dropping Noodler’s 

New Ink names

Keeping Oregon Strange(r)

Letter writing is getting expensive in the UK.

Can writing a letter help you get the winning bid for a house?  It can again now.

The Mont Blanc monolith has been spotted in Germany

And Mont Blanc in Kenya (130,000 KES = 1,119.53 USD)

NERD Alert! It’s a Jony Ives article and his favorite tools

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/09/jony-ive-essential-tools-designing/

https://trendfool.com/business/jony-ive-chooses-the-12-tools-of-his-trade/

https://www.ft.com/content/b73731f5-7563-4ff3-9c78-a226643b4648 

https://hwebber.co.uk/product-category/c-s-osborne-leather-working-tools/edgers-creasers-bone-folders/

https://www.montegrappa.com/en/cluster/fattoperte/myfirstmontegrappa/fortuna/

https://shop.mitutoyo.co.uk/web/mitutoyo/en_GB/mitutoyo/01.05.05/Universal%20Bevel%20Protractor/index.xhtml