Retro 51 Tornado Rollerball Pen Imperial War Museum Spitfire
As Retro 51 puts it, 'Life is too short to carry an ugly pen'. And we agree. Their bright colours and cool designs have more than a hint of nostalgia about them, and all their pencils are made with good old-fashioned values in mind.
This - the Spitfire N3200 Tornado rollerball - is the first in the Imperial War Museum collection. It's an homage to a fighter plane that was built in 1939 and then issued to No. 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford in April 1940. It was piloted by Squadron Leader Geoffrey Stephenson on its first and - as it turned out - only mission during the evacuation of Dunkirk when Stephenson crash-landed on a beach near Calais and was captured. The Spitfire sank under the sand but was recovered 46 years later and went on to be fully restored. It returned to the skies in 2014 and was donated to the Imperial War Museum a year later.
The Spitfire N3200 rollerball has been acid-etched with rivets and panels and then painted in a camouflage pattern. The plane’s tail numbers have been printed alongside the British Roundel and the top disc is printed with Britain’s tri-colour fin flash. It is complete with black-nickel accents that have the IWM logo on the top ring alongside the pen’s serial number engraving. Each Tornado is supplied in commemorative packaging which doubles as a pen stand, with foil stamp graphics representing the plane.
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As Retro 51 puts it, 'Life is too short to carry an ugly pen'. And we agree. Their bright colours and cool designs have more than a hint of nostalgia about them, and all their pencils are made with good old-fashioned values in mind.
This - the Spitfire N3200 Tornado rollerball - is the first in the Imperial War Museum collection. It's an homage to a fighter plane that was built in 1939 and then issued to No. 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford in April 1940. It was piloted by Squadron Leader Geoffrey Stephenson on its first and - as it turned out - only mission during the evacuation of Dunkirk when Stephenson crash-landed on a beach near Calais and was captured. The Spitfire sank under the sand but was recovered 46 years later and went on to be fully restored. It returned to the skies in 2014 and was donated to the Imperial War Museum a year later.
The Spitfire N3200 rollerball has been acid-etched with rivets and panels and then painted in a camouflage pattern. The plane’s tail numbers have been printed alongside the British Roundel and the top disc is printed with Britain’s tri-colour fin flash. It is complete with black-nickel accents that have the IWM logo on the top ring alongside the pen’s serial number engraving. Each Tornado is supplied in commemorative packaging which doubles as a pen stand, with foil stamp graphics representing the plane.
