Montblanc x Purdey Meisterstück Pens
In collaboration with Montblanc, a luxury-goods manufacturer in Hamburg, Germany, Purdey is offering pens that incorporate elements of a shotgun.
Doug Tate is an Editor at Large for Shooting Sportsmanwith more than 350 articles published in the past 30 years. A British native, he attended the College of Art & Industrial Design, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has a keen eye for aesthetics, from a well-turned sentence to a well-filed gun action. He has been a longtime contributor to The Field, in the UK, and is the author of the books Birmingham Gunmakers and British Gun Engraving. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest.
In collaboration with Montblanc, a luxury-goods manufacturer in Hamburg, Germany, Purdey is offering pens that incorporate elements of a shotgun.
The business will be based in Buckinghamshire, England.
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