| Gift Guide 2002 |
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Pens |
| Ballpoint or fountain? Steel or sterling? Get the write thing for the right person. |
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 For the girl who can't be too rich or too thin:Sterling-silver ballpoint purse pen, $95 at Tiffany & Co. 
Buy it! |
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 For the man who leaves a whiff of leather and tobacco in his wake:Bexley Redwood Fountain pen, $198 at Fountain Pen Hospital (10 Warren Street, 800-253-pens).
Buy it! |
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 For your most precious:Gold-plated fountain pen with citrine-studded clip, $1,025 at Montblanc stores. A rollerball is $735. |
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 For the novelist who still uses a typewriter:Gold-plated Parker 51 special-edition fountain pen, $350 at Arthur Brown (2 West 46th Street, 212-575-5555).
Buy it! |
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 For the professor-chic guy with a Harris tweed coat:Conklin rollerball pen, $139 at Fountain Pen Hospital (10 Warren Street, 800-253-pens).
Buy it! |
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 For college kids who boot up to get their mail (but still write checks):Skagen ballpoint pen, $14.50 at skagen.com. |
| Edited by Rima Suqi. Photographed by Chago Akii-Bua and Brian Jones |
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From the November 25, 2002 issue of New York Magazine
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