The patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick,
was a Roman Briton who traveled to Ireland and established the
Christian church in the fifth century. His exploits gave rise
to the legend of his driving the snakes out of Ireland. This
is likely a metaphor for the defeat of paganism, as serpent
imagery is common in pagan religions and the use of that iconography
would have died out with the fall of the heathens.
Now, in the twenty-first century, Krone honors
St. Patrick with a magnificent pen. The luminescent barrel is
a brilliantly colored painting over a hand-made barrel, re-creating
the glowing stained glass of that time period, with an image
of St. Patrick dressed as a shepherd. The cap and blind cap
are of rich briarwood delicately carved with a Celtic pattern.
The antique bronze clip is a unique Celtic symbol, complementing
the cap beautifully. The band at the base of the barrel features
the Gaelic word for Ireland, Eire.
The St. Patrick pen is available in a highly limited
production of 288 fountain pens, twenty-eight rollerball models
and only eighteen magnum-size fountain pens. The briarwood cap
on the magnum model has two panels with an ornate Celtic cross
in silver and gold and the other two panels feature mother-of-pearl
inlays. The mother-of-pearl barrel has the same richly painted
picture adorned with gold leaf.
