Shetland or Shetland Isles. Calling it “the Shetlands” would instigate retribution of Wickerman proportions 
m’eh spent the last 7 years calling it shetlands and none of the born and bred natives got upset.
Beautiful Matt what is it?
I don’t know much about it. Made by Cartier, I’m guessing 80’s?
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Is it worse than suggesting they are Scottish?
Marginally 
Being small, black and featureless they’re not exactly easy to photograph.
“Special” mini ballpoint and “Liliput” fountain pen.
The top of the fountain pen screws onto the main body to make it longer while writing.
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Oh dear, you had to open the Drawer of Shame, didn’t you.
This fat boy - I think it’s Japanese. I used it through the 90s (and boy does it look 90s).
“Düller” fountain pen, designed by Dietrich Lubs (an erstwhile colleague of Dieter Rams) for the Japanese I.D.E.A. stationary company. It came embedded in a kind of ersatz Moleskine that I can’t find now.
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Found it.
Jesus, you think you live this ascetic lifestyle, then you open a cupboard and decades worth of knick-knacks fall out.
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Alas, you and I, we are the same. Have you tried a Montegrappa? I have one and it’s quite benign for lefties; many of the family that own it are lefties which seems to motivate them. Also used by Hemmingway and Hunter S Thompson* which feels fitting company.
*I am aware Thompson was almost exclusively an exponent of the typewriter but he had a Montegrappa, presumbly for drawing cock and balls on page margins.
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Never understood why people still use fountain pens, they’re messy, fiddly and just a PITA. If someone produces a fountain pen in a meeting I always tag them as “don’t rely on this cunt to do anything” and I’m normally right.
I bought a Mont Blanc le grand rollerball in 2000 when I worked in the city and wanted to look like a posh twat. Still have it but very rarely use it.
I now use these as they are fantastic to write with (and cheap)
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
I have one so when I’m in a meeting, I don’t get asked to do anything.
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Especially if they use green ink
Tombow?
Here’s my daily driver:
With any ball-point I’ve tried, my spider-scrawl is too small and screwed up for me to read 30 mins later, let alone anyone else - this slows things down and makes me write larger, which works
I also think it’s pretty cool that such an old design works so well after 60+ years
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That was it! Thank you.
And me - I run a successful business so I just get others to do the work while I doodle and blot 
What is it?