Ali Hall - Café Crème Pen & Card Case Set Joe Orton NIB Start Price USD 101.50 Current Price USD 101.50 Time Left 27 days 10 hours 8 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 06, 2008 End Time Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Location Westborough, Massachusetts See more about 'Ali Hall - Café Crème Pen & Card Case Set Joe Orton NIB' Description ACME Studio "Café Crème" Pen & Business Card Case Set by Ali Hall     This listing is for NEW ACME Studio merchandise. Products are current and “brand new”.   The Pen “Café Crème” pen, reflecting the work of Ali Hall. 5¼” long with the cap closed. Coffee and Cream backgammon stripes run on a brown background with black & chrome accents. The cap band displays a representation of Hall’s signature, and “ACME” is on the clip. Pen is presented in an Acme metal box.   The instrument comes equipped with roller ball components using German manufactured Schmidt ink refills (fine point, non-drying), and includes new ACME Studio packaging. Packaging includes a lined metal presentation box, with sleeve, and ACME Studio literature to include an artist’s bio card.   Fountain Pen ACME Writing Tools are unique in that they are sold as rollerballs but they can easily be converted to fountain pens [and back again]. A fountain pen conversion kit can be added to any purchase. This will allow an interchangeable use of roller ball and fountain pen from the same pen body.   Rollerball Refills Your pen comes with a single rollerball refill. Additional refills can be added to your winning bid for $3.25 each or a pack of 5 for $14.00.   The Business Card Case A brand new design from Acme Studio. Ali Hall business card case from Acme Studio, titled "Café Crème". Resembling the pen, a matching design covers the case lid. Case is 3¾” x 2 3/8” x ¼” with snap-lock and hinged lid. Packaging includes an ACME Studio card about the artist.   Just like the ACME Studio writing instruments, the Acme business card cases are well designed and manufactured. Cases have a mirror chrome metal finish inside and out with a unique image applied to the lid.  For an artist’s business cards or the cards of an enthusiast with a keen sense of style.        ALI HALL Born in 1963 in Manchester UK, where she still lives and works. She graduated with a BA Hons degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1986. In the same year, she won the Friends of Israel Educational Foundation Art Award, a travel bursary culminating in an exhibition of works at Christies Contemporary Art in London. She then began a successful career in illustration, and her editorial and publishing clients have included Penguin Books, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, BBC Publications, Heinemann Childrens Books, Kelloggs, Hodder and Stoughton and Emap Metro publications. Ali also collaborates with her husband, designer Ben Hall, on design and illustration projects.   In 2007 Ali created, designed and developed Joe Orton Online, the official website dedicated to maverick 1960s British playwright Joe Orton, who was immortalized in the 1987 movie Prick up your Ears.        ACME Studio Started in 1985, ACME Studio is an international product design company, producing and marketing writing instruments, and other design objects. Its products are the result of cooperation with the world’s leading architects, designers, artists, foundations, estates and institutions. ACME Studio has a habit of producing limited editions and/or discontinuing products and destroying the molds – this causes items to become very unique and collectable.   If for any reason within 10 days of receipt of the product a winning bidder wishes to return the item, GreenMan508 will accept the return with no questions asked. Provided the item is safely returned in original condition, a full refund for the bid price of the item will quickly be issued.   Checkout our eBay store, GreenMan508, for other products from Acme Studios.   Please ask questions and I’ll answer them quickly.   GreenMan508 prides itself in shipping FAST – we try to ship within 24 hours of payment (we must reserve the right to let personal checks clear).   Check out my other items! Place a Bid!