| Allan Quiat | |||
| On Snail List | Biography # 340 | email: abquiat@yahoo.com | |
I live in Houston, Texas with my wife Jean. We have two sons, ages 26 and 22, both living away from home. So, we are deeply into the "empty nest" syndrome. Jean retired last year from teaching, but I am still working; I have almost 34 years with Chevron Corporation, currently as an internal consultant on Project Management and Change Management. Jean uses fountain pens, but our sons are too hooked into the computer / e-mail / text messaging world to take up writing by hand for pleasure. My job involves a great deal of international travel, which affords me the opportunity to hunt for pens in a lot of "cool" places (some of which are pretty hot, temperature-wise). I accumulate pens rather than doing "focused" collecting. I have a lot of modern pens, and of these my favorites tend to be made by Bexley, Pelikan, Lamy, Visconti, and Pilot/Namiki. In vintage, I also have many across a wide variety of manufacturers (Parker, Waterman, Sheaffer, Wahl, Mabie-Todd, Salz Bros., Conway Stewart, et al). I tend to use almost all of my pens, except for a couple of the vintage ones which are in true "mint" condition. Over the last couple of years I have discovered the joy of italic nibs, so I do have many of the modern pen nibs customized by the likes of Richard Binder and Deb Kinney. I try to attend a couple of pen shows each year, so I look forward to meeting many more of you Pentracers as time goes by. I am on the snail mail list; please feel free to drop me a line and I'll reply. Cheers! Other interests: Music (singing, piano); reading; traveling
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