A beautiful example of the most traditional maki-e motifs, Goldfish are decorated with gold flakes. Out of production and very difficult to find. 18KG tip marked #10. Depicting two goldfish, one on the barrel and one on the cap (both fishes are fish toward each other), in gold and orange against a black urushi ground. This is a high grade maki-e pen, which has the clip, and eighty plus percent of the pen decorated with gold nashiji. The workmanship is of the highest quality. Year 1999.