An Appeal for Aid

A Note Regarding Checkout: 

Right now our shopping cart has lost its wheels. To order please contact Rick at rickpropas@comcast.net

Welcome to the Penguin website.We hope you will find your visit here useful and informative. The new site is  still under development and when we are done not only will your buying experience be made more attractive and easy, but all the features you have come to value will be fully operational. We ask your patience while we get there.

Before going further I wish to acknowledge the people who made this enterprise possible, past present, and future.

Foremost is my daughter Anna. She has designed all three iterations of the site and I would like to think that this site reflects her growth from a promising student to a fully accomplished web developer. It is no exaggeration to say that without her efforts there would be no Penguin.

You would not be seeing this site now if not for the help of Yuan Niu, cataloger extraordinaire and Franz Dimson, master photographer. When the work to bring the site up was mired in delay, they broke the logjam and got us rolling. Only they know how much they contributed to the site.

Several people from the past deserve thanks and acknowledgement. When Anna put down her duties as webmaster, Gillian S. Hart stepped ably into the role and served us (clients and me) well for several years. Elizabeth Ziemba followed Gilly and contributed not just her able work, but a refresh on the site you have used over the last few years. After Liz came Crystal Hupp who has helped up until recently.

Finally, you, our clients, have kept us going. Without the collective you there would be no Penguin.

They say that it takes a village, and I have been blessed with a fine community to support this enterprise.

Celebrate Summer with Kaweco at the penguin

 

This month we feature New Old Stock vintage Kawecos from the 1930s.

 

Those of you who follow the penguin are familiar with these pens. They have come out of the factory, rescued by the new owner Michael Gutberlet and provided to us by Kaweco historian Gerhard Brandl. Each time I get these I swear, as I have been told, that there will be no more, but here are more. 

 

I don’t promise (any more) that they are the last, but I also don’t promise that there will be more.

 

We also have, for the first time,  three 185 and 190  size Elite model pens in gray candy stripe.

 

And we have two each of the vintage 189 Dias in blue and in gray, three in green, and four in red marble.

 

For now we don't have individual listings up, so just contact Rick.

Note, also, that we have listed separately several vintage and modern Kaweco Sport and Kaweco Sport sets available on their own and in etuis. See our listings at the penguin

 

For the rest of May and June we will be offering free shipping on all Kaweco orders.

 

And, as always, we have a full range of Pelikans, Parkers and other fine pens available on the website.

Above all, get vaccinated, be safe, and stay healthy. 

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And if all else fails, you can always order the old school way, by reaching out to me by e-mail at rickpropas@comcast.net