Caran d'Ache Limited Edition Zivago Attributes Gold Plated Fountain Pen

To celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Nobel Prize award in 1958 to Russian poet and writer, Boris Pasternak for his legendary work, Doctor Zhivago,. It symbolises the peotry of words, the pleasure of reading and the soul of one of the world's most beautiful stories.
A multitude of patiently applied layers of shiny black Chinese lacquer cover the entire pen. This deep, homogenous black is a reminder of the serene, timeless winter that freezes over Siberia, as described by Pasternak. It serves as a background to his lyrical saga in which love meets freedom, while revolutionary upheavals shake Russia at the turn of 1917.
The beauty of love is symbolised by a multitude of luminous stars made of white lacquer that are reminiscent of immaculate snow scattered over the cap of the pen and surrounded by gilt ornamental motifs. Boris Pasternak’s signature is gilt-engraved on the body of the pen
Limited t0 1958 fountain pens and 1958 roller ball pens

The fountain has a rhodium-coated 18-carat gold nib
The serial numbered is on the tip of the cap 

measurement

Length fully capped        139mm

Diameter                           14mm

Length with out cap         125mm

Cap posted on barrel      158mm