Aurora Limited Edition Nobile Blaze Ebonite Vermeil Cap Fountain Pen

An Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer, Umberto Nobile designed and piloted the airship Norge, the first aircraft to reach the North Pole as well as cross the polar ice cap between Europe and America in 1926. He is perhaps more well known for commandeering the Italia in 1928 on another polar expedition. Nobile and 15 others arrived at the Pole but were unable to land for unknown reasons and instead crashed into an ice block on the Arctic Glacial Ocean. The cockpit was lost, but the crew managed to salvage food, a radio transmitter, and a camping tent which they dyed with aniline, all of which would aid the crew as they survived 48 days on the ice before finally being rescued. The eye dropper filler safety fountain pen is a 1920s redesign. The fountain pen and rollerball are both comprised of a striped ebonite barrel and vermeil cap decorated with a geometrical guilloche. Fine decorations infuse the golden fittings. An 18k gold nib and a commemorative bottle of ink completes the fountain pen presentation. Each limited edition of 1,919 fountain pens and 999 rollerballs is presented in a miniature red tent.