Visconti Alexander The Great Fountain Pen - Broad

Every year Visconti commemorates a famous character. For 2023, we have chosen to remember Alexander the Great (356- 323 BC). Winner of numerous battles and conqueror of many territories, he died in Babylon when he was only 32 years old, but left behind an extraordinary legacy. He founded and re-established numerous cities, among them the biggest of the ancient world Alexandria in Egypt, the centre of the Hellenistic civilisation. The pen has a cylindrical shape, with the ends tapering to a section reminiscent of Greek columns. The map of Alexander the Great's empire, created with the scrimshaw technique and subsequently coloured, is shown on the barrel and the cap. The metal fittings are in aged bronze and feature typical Greek decorations. On the central ring there is the inscription reading “Alexander the Great” and in the bronze band on the shaft there is a gilded silver plate depicting Alexander’s face. In homage to the Macedonian phalanx, the clip, also in aged bronze, is spear-shaped. On the clip there is a gilded silver shield depicting the sun, Alexander the Great's family crest.