Superbow Sunday 2025
Superbow Sunday is here again, and if there is one thing people like more than the event itself, it's the commercials. So what better way to celebrate the day than…
Superbow Sunday is here again, and if there is one thing people like more than the event itself, it's the commercials. So what better way to celebrate the day than…
Interesting European drawing instruments have been a bit thin on the ground here in the UK over the last couple of years, but occasionally something unexpected still turns up. In…
As it is once again Canada Day, I dug around in my collection for something suitably Canadian to mark the occasion. As mentioned previously, Canada was not especially known for…
As today is St David's Day, the traditional feast day of the patron saint of Wales, I decided to showcase a drawing instrument that was actually manufactured in Wales. The…
I heard it on the grapevine that today the USA celebrates "Superbow Sunday", apparently an annual national event of great importance - and who am I to argue with that?…
In the same vein as Staedtler's Galileo, the 1990s also saw Rotring trying to reinvent the compass, in particular the spindle-adjustment master bow. The resulting design is unusual not only in…
Occasionally I will buy something without bothering to find out what it is first, especially if the price is right. Today's post concerns a recent acquisition that falls into this…
As November draws to a close, it seemed an opportune moment to conclude my investigation of Stanley's planimeter, at least so far as the instrument itself is concerned. One of…
My last post ended with a slew of questions that I had intended to address in a second instalment, but as I began to assemble the evidence it quickly became…
November 16th 2023 marks the bicentenary of Jakob Amsler-Laffon's birth - at least according to the more trustworthy sources - so it seemed only fitting to save a rather special…