🔴 TOUJOURS BLU Piston Fountain Pen Vintage Gold Plated

TOUJOURS fountain pen with blue body

✒ Original 14K GOLD nib tested

⚙️ Mechanism with integrated piston

🔄 Gold-plated snap cap

↔️ Length 13.5 cm ( 🇺🇸 Standard US measurements 5.31 in)

🕰️ Period: vintage 1960-70

🔍 Conservative state as per photo

📦 Complete with universal case

📖 An age of ink and genius: Between the 1960s and 1970s, Italy was experiencing a period of industrial fervor and widespread creativity. Schools and offices were filled with functional yet elegant writing instruments, a reflection of an era in which even everyday objects carried a soul. It was in this context that the Toujours pen was born, made by the historic company LUS (Lavorazione Utensili Stilografici), an Italian company capable of combining technical precision and stylistic taste. The Extra Toujours models, inspired by the fluid lines of American Parker pens, adopted syringe or piston mechanisms, offering an economical yet robust alternative, perfect for students and professionals. Their widespread distribution speaks to a hard-working Italy, one that wrote with passion in classrooms, artisan workshops, and the desks of notaries' offices.

Owning a Toujours today means touching upon the history of democratic Italian writing, when every pen was a small engine of ideas, memories, and daily dreams.