A quick summary post for those not in the fountain pen news loop:
Pelikan Hubs is Sept 25th this year. Today they sent tons of people an email telling them their registration has been canceled due to a global participant limit of 10,000 people. This was not previously disclosed to anyone.
More chatter on this on r/fountainpens: redd.it/1w0qfpy and http://redd.it/1w0sde7
Instagram account @fountainpenmemes is also reporting:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcmmRNKCUW6/?img_index=1
#fountainpens
alexa-488
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2026-08-29 03:20:16 UTC
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