David Oscarson - 25TH Silver Anniversary Art Nouveau - Roller Ball Pen Slate Turquoise

THE DESIGN

The Twenty-fifth Silver Anniversary Collection celebrates the Art Nouveau motif and twenty-five years of David Oscarson design. Ten colours of translucent and opaque hard enamel sit over fifteen sections of guilloché engraving. The cap and clip pay tribute to René Lalique's dragonfly-woman corsage made for Sarah Bernhardt and shown at the 1900 Paris World's Fair, while the barrel recreates Alphonse Mucha's La Plume (1899). Each gripping section carries inlaid opaque enamel and a cabochon onyx adorns the top and bottom of every piece. This roller ball is finished in Slate Turquoise with polished .925 sterling silver.

THE CRAFT

Hand-crafted from .925 sterling silver. Each component passes through multiple stages of precision engraving to create the guilloché pattern, then hard enamel — glass, water and metal oxides ground by hand with a mortar and pestle — is applied with a quill, kiln-fired at over 1,000 °F, filed back by hand with a diamond file and fired again until the enamel fills every valley of the engraving. The pieces are then polished and buffed to the velvet finish of true translucent hard enamel. A five-year apprenticeship is required to master the process.

THE COLLECTION

The 25th Anniversary Art Nouveau Collection is the 39th in the David Oscarson series of Limited Edition writing instruments. Every piece is individually numbered. Each colour variation is limited to just 25 pieces.

THE WRITING

The roller ball version of the collection — the same sterling silver, guilloché and hard-enamel body as the fountain pen, with a capped roller ball section that takes a standard roller ball refill for an effortless, consistent line.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Maison: David Oscarson, St. Louis, Missouri — handmade limited editions since 2000 • Collection: 25th Anniversary Art Nouveau • Type: Roller Ball Pen • Colour: Slate Turquoise • Finish: Sterling silver • Body: .925 sterling silver, guilloché engraving, kiln-fired hard enamel • Refill: roller ball • Edition: limited to 25 pieces per colour (fountain pen and roller ball combined), individually numbered • Reference: XXVGG-RB • Presented in: David Oscarson presentation box

WHO THIS IS FOR

• Collectors of numbered limited-edition writing instruments • Admirers of guilloché and hard-enamel work in the Fabergé tradition • Those marking a milestone with a piece made to be kept and handed down

AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED

Supplied in Canada by El Laguito Cigars, authorized David Oscarson retailer, shipped from Mississauga, Ontario. Every piece is genuine David Oscarson, individually numbered and backed by authorized warranty.