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BIC® CrISTAL® BrINGS TO LIFE THE ArTWOrK OF DAVID DOWNES bIC Uk supported british artist david downes throughout the creation of an exceptional piece of art (100 x 145 cm) drawn for the most part with BIC® Cristal® pens and representing the St. Pancras station in London. The project was an initiative by the National Autistic Society (NAS) to help raise money for medical research. “With BIC® Cristal® pens, I can get all the effects and details I want to achieve,” explained the artist.

1.45 m2 with a Bic® cristal® pen

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SHEAFFEr SHOWS OFF! In september 2011, the sheaffer pen Museum was opened in Fort Madison, Iowa, in the United States. More than a century of history is written there, beginning with the invention of W.A. Sheaffer’s unique design and patent in 1908. Fountain pens and other Sheaffer® brand writing instruments, both old and new, are included

in the collection. The museum captures the long-standing link of Sheaffer, Fort Madison and its people as well as the passion of everyone who has worked for the brand. Today, Sheaffer has an international appeal, in fact, it was with a Sheaffer Valor 9354 pen that the leaders of Europe signed the Accession Treaty of Croatia into the European Union in December 2011.

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BIC ® 4 COLOUrS™ GETS IT ALL IN WrITING AT THE G20 AND THE G8 bIC sponsors the French presidency of the G20 and the G8 meetings held in France in 2011, by offering participants a BIC® 4 Colours™ pen. For the occasion the pen was specially decorated with the logo of these international summits. Experts, journalists and heads of state and government wrote the history of tomorrow with a BIC® 4 Colours™ pen.

100% made in France