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All About the Stationery, Fountain Pens, and Pen Storage Solutions

As a fountain pen collector, I kept looking for affordable storage and display systems for my favorite pens. The best displays I found were based on jewelry tray. They are portable and great for a display table or sales booth, but they are not easy access storage. So that would mean having a storage solution, as well, and I'd have to move the pens between the two, but also keep the same order so I could find specific pens in my "library" when desired.

Then there's the cost of a drawer storage system, which go from mildly expensive (on a per pen basis) to astronomical for something that would also display well. It took a while, but I came upon drawer systems for jewelry trays, which take full-sized trays. Jewelry trays take standard inserts that are available with various dividers. The best divider for standard trays that will store and display pens are made for bracelets, but their shape and depth leave little room for thinker pens, like a Meisterstuck 149, for instance. I finally found