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Visconti Homo-Sapiens Lava Rollerball w/Bronze Trim

More than 5,000 years ago Homo-sapiens marked the dawn of human history and the invention of writing thus began. The same age discovers metallurgy, allowing the mastery of metals which signified the beginning of human evolution all the wy to the invention of the wheel. The first great civilizations arose on the Nile, tigris and Euphrates river banks and soon began the development of sciences like algebra, geometry, astronomy, and engineering.
 
Visconti conceived the Homo-sapiens range of writing instruments for real writers, for those to whom the fountain pen continues to represent an essential travelling companion, a daily friend to share the same civilization that writing helped create.
 
The pen is made from a material that is as antique as the world around us: lava from the Etna volcano. Lava has many characteristics that make it very  unique in the manufacturing of writing instruments.

Visconti has successfully produced a material containing over 50% pure basaltic lava, catalysed together with resin in a formula that is patented and obviously ept secret. The extraordinary characteristics of basaltic lava practically transform it into a material perfectly fit to writing instruments.

Visconti Lava characteristics:

All metallic parts of the pen were inspired by the Bronze Age, almost contemporary to the invention of writing, marked the dawn of human civilization. The clip, the decorative rings and the metal accessories, with the exception of the piston, are all in brnze. Homo-sapeins is made with natural bronze like the antique formula that does nto require plating or protection treatments which alter its original almost pink color and which can be easily polished with special products.
 
The charging piston in the fountain pen is made of titanium, the only material resistant to ink aggressiveness.

• Virtually unbreakable:  It has a high defree of resilience
• Flame-proof: Visconti lava has a resistance to heat of over 100C
• Slightly hygroscopic: Allowing it to absorb hand sweat during use
• Dense: To the touch, allowing the best possible finger-relaxing grip
• New and unique:  Unquestionably new in the range of materials emplyoed in the making of fountain pens

All metallic parts of the pen were inspired by the Bronze Age, almost contemporary to the invention of writing, marked the dawn of human civilization. The clip, the decorative rings and the metal accessories, with the exception of the piston, are all in brnze. Homo-sapeins is made with natural bronze like the antique formula that does nto require plating or protection treatments which alter its original almost pink color and which can be easily polished with special products.
 
The charging piston in the fountain pen is made of titanium, the only material resistant to ink aggressiveness.

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