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A while ago, I ordered a fountain pen from a fairly well known seller. Anxiously I awaited the post, which is slow to non-existent in my neck of the woods (literally). Eventually a notice appeared in my box to say I had to go to the village and see the postmistress. She handed me a box, and I could see from the stamps and markings it was the pen I was waiting for. I drove home, excitement building, anticipating unwrapping my new pen. When I opened the box, I saw, not the pen I had ordered, but this:





So I contacted the seller, who was really apologetic about sending the wrong item, and by some magic, he managed to make the correct pen appear at the post just a few days later. All the way from Tokyo. I offered to send this back, but he said to keep it, by way of compensation.