Visconti Divine Proportions Limited Edition 18K Gold Trim Fountain Pen MINT

  

I have been collecting pens, pen accessories, coins and limited edition bronzes for nearly 30 years and I have decided to downsize my collections and sell off nearly everything I have collected over the years. Set of matching pens from my personal collection: Visconti Divine Proportions Limited Edition 18K Gold Trim Fountain Pen, Number 078 of 618, with an 18K Gold Medium ("M") Nib. FOUNTAIN PEN has NEVER been DIPPED, INKED nor DISPLAYED. Visconti 25th Anniversary Divine Proportions (Divina Proporzione) Limited Edition Fountain Pen is based on the golden ratio, which according to the classical Greek sculptor Phidias contains the key of knowledge. The number is 1,618 and it corresponds to what is considered a particularly aesthetic ratio.

" This ratio occurs repeatedly in nature and in fact it defines the "ideal relation, " an arithmetic measure which is enjoyable for the eye, called also "golden mean proportion" or "golden section. Without getting into too much detail this number, also called phi, is as well used to trace different circles divided through ten - called decagons - or through five - i. Pentagons, called pentagrams or pentacles too.

The empiric discovering of the golden ration "comes from the most remote ancient times, from the prehistoric era". The pentacle is commonly thought to be the symbol through which the Pythagoreans recognized each other, but it came into our tradition throughout the centuries as a talisman of good health: we find it on some ancient coins and on several gothic cathedrals and churches. Plato recognized that the golden number had a privileged role in the explanation of the universe.

During the XII century, Fibonacci, also Called Leonardo da Pisa, mathematician, merchant and great traveler got in touch with this scientific discipline in the Middle East, developing the famous "Fibonacci sequences". For the architects and painters of the Middle Ages the pentagon became the symbol of the "Quintessence", literally said "the fifth element", i. The pentacles and circles traced with the compass were kept absolutely secret among the corporations. In 1509 Leonardo Da Vinci illustrates De divina proportione, the work of a Franciscan mathematician, Luca Pacioli. This book with pictures by Da Vinci had a great success, as it was the written version of an ancient oral tradition.

It was revealing a mystery. Today we know that the divine proportion is present in architecture (Le Corbusier frequently used it), in painting, in music, in the structure of some poems, but also in nature, in many plants and animals (many flowers have five petals, some leaves are placed on stems according to the phi ratio, which is present also in the starfish and the sea urchin). The divine proportion seems also to rule the human body: the navel, for example, divides the body according to the golden number. Fountain pen is a limited edition, numbered 078 of 618 and features a beautiful briarwood presentation box.

The pen is made from a burlwood celluloid, with 18K gold trim. Visconti has installed a touch-down filling system and selected a 23kt Palladium nib for the pen. Nib Size - Medium "M". Nib Material - Gold, 18K. Material (shaft and cap) - Briarwood. Country of Manufacture - Italy. Limited Edition 078 of 618.

Everything about this pen is in NEW, PRISTINE CONDITION! Pen comes with all its original packaging, Briarwood presentation case, Certificate of Authenticity (COA), Velvet Sleeve for Presentation Case and Yellow Visconti Cardboard Box. From a Smoke and Pet Free Home!