- Seal character, has no meaning. Or more accurately, it means [insert name]'s Seal. Artist added for decorative effect.
- I didn't know you were a Seal fan. - Ryan Brenizer
- Intelligence
- Simple ?
- Han
- i like a good pen. - Pink Frog
Letterwriting
When I write letters, I usually write a draft, then a final with a fountain pen. And then I sign-stamp it too for good measure.
Comments and faves
alykat, Ryan Brenizer, hapakorean, brettley, and 37 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Newell the Jewell [deleted] (91 months ago | reply)
very nice. what do the ideograms of your "sign" mean?
parl (91 months ago | reply)
write letters???
you mean the kind where you need postage?
Nice focus.
VincenzoF [deleted] (91 months ago | reply)
You do what?
You write letters?
Wow... How...
Er...
Quaint... :-)
Tampen (91 months ago | reply)
That gold thing in the middle - that's for picking your teeth while you type ?
Ryan Brenizer (91 months ago | reply)
Nice still-life.
petitesoeur (91 months ago | reply)
you *are* an old-school gentleman -- haha! i thought it was chocolate or maybe make-up in the thumbnail-- silly silly me
LarimdaME (91 months ago | reply)
Newell - Yeah, I'm gonna have to look those up again. I'm not sure what the applied Chinese meanings are.
Parl - Thanks, but I really should have widened the DOF a little more and used a tripod. Just a late night inspirational thing.
Thanks for the kind comments all, and to those who fail to reply to my time-consuming missives: You suck.
MacRonin47 (91 months ago | reply)
Wow, someone who writes actual letters on real paper with an analog writing instrument. Cool. Now if only my handwriting was legible, I'd actually consider doing that.
hapakorean (91 months ago | reply)
Fancy. Nice image too.
jonghooni (91 months ago | reply)
cool photo!
ImGump (91 months ago | reply)
名字好像很复杂啊,看不出来
ImGump (91 months ago | reply)
oh, it's Korean
shapeshift (84 months ago | reply)
very nice photograph of a lost art. i blogged this photo to blogs.newamericamedia.org/photo-of-the-day/. new america media is a non-profit alternative news organization. please check it out to see if you would like to add or change anything. thanks
dylwhs (82 months ago | reply)
The characters are of course, back to front. In the picture as it is, the top left character is first, then the one below it, then the one in the top right, and the final one in the bottom right. The characters, so far as I can make out is 韓真敦印 in that order. The final character means 'seal/chop' , the first three characters form a name, with the surname 韓 appearing first, and the person's given name "真敦". In Chinese this would be romanised Han ZhenDun. Zhen means 'true, real' and Dun means 'kind hearted' (according to CEDICT). Han can be used to represent 'Korea' in one of it's uses, which is historical, but the likelihood of the chop inidicating it was korean is small, unless there are other non-Chinese characters there which make it explicitly korean (hangul for instance). Otherwise, its safe to assume it is a chop for someone with the name 韓真敦, and this person, could be Chinese, or korean, as Koreans also use "hanja" their equivalent of Chinese "hanzi" or Japanese 'kanji' in their names.
Christine Lebrasseur (82 months ago | reply)
The splendid photo would be perfect for the first contest "Pen, Pencils, Brushes, Inks,..." about
Fountain Pens :)
www.flickr.com/groups/pencils_brushes_inks/di scuss/721575...
Blunder (71 months ago | reply)
Nice Parker 75, great to write with. I try to write at least a letter a week, by hand and I keep all my pens inked. I like the sign stamp too.
16_sparrows (69 months ago | reply)
I love this photo! It would be great in the Letter Writers Alliance pool.
Uberdoog (66 months ago | reply)
The battle between digital and analog spills over to the journaling field. While I produce more content and in greater accuracy with the computer, I find that writing long hand (longhand?) is more therapeutic and aesthetically (visual) pleasing. To this day it's a struggle to decide which medium deserves my limited time.
campatvt92 (51 months ago | reply)
Beautiful composition and colors.
Keep writing !
nothing丢 (17 months ago | reply)
韩X淳印？？看着像~~~
Isaac B Watson (14 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the awesome photo! I used it in a blog post on 3/9/12: www.ibwatson.com/2012/03/09/inbox-mastery-par t-two/
art of living jgd (9 months ago | reply)
i have that parker 75...
Women's Web (3 months ago | reply)
Thanks for this nice photo. We have used it with attribution over here: www.womensweb.in/articles/creative-writing-st ory-2/