[stationery] ludicrously expensive fountain pens I actually *do* covet

(Unlike The Turtle Moves, yesterday, which I admire but do not yearn for...)

Long-term background wistfulness: the Onoto British Museum collection. See also the UKFP review of the Great Court, which does a good job of articulating No This Is Primarily A Work Of Art, Not A Writing Implement.

But then. Today. Reddit happened.

Specifically.

This is the TACCIA Miyabi Empress Maki-e Honey Bee Limited Edition (where I'm linking to Goulet because they, unlike the actual TACCIA website, have actual photos of it.)

It has subsequently been pointed out to me that Fossils in the Sky also exists.

I don't actually want any of these pens! I've never tried using a Sailor King of Pen but everything I have read about them leaves me, at best, lukewarm! My whole entire soul rebels at the concept of an £850 cartridge/converter pen, which is what the KoP -- which these are based on -- is!

And yet the art--