Metropolitan Museum of Arts Egyptian Hieroglyphic Collection Fountain Pens

The pen looks nice and writes reasonably well. Unfortunately the barrel is made of nothing but plastic -- ordinary, molded plastic. Given the price, and the nature of the institution offering it, I think the pen should at the very least have had a metal barrel with lacquer applied. In the end, the pen's lightweight nature and square shape make it far less enjoyable to write with than I was hoping for.

However, none of this reflects on Pen Chalet, which as usual provides fine service.

The Egyptian Hieroglyphic certainly looks lovely. Unfortunately I don't think the quality of the materials lives up to the appearance, or entirely justifies the price.

The cap is OK; metal and plastic, decent weight to it. The nib seems fine (I haven't inked it and tried it out yet, because I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to keep it).

My main complaint rests with the barrel. Despite being very attractive, it's nothing but a simple piece of machined plastic with a metal cap on the end. Not laquered metal (as it *ought* to be, given its price, IMO), , not engraved metal, just ordinary plastic. It weighs less than the nib. Subjectively, it seems less substantial than many fountain pens I've bought for less than one-tenth the price (and certainly not as substantial as the other Met pen I have, the Russian Imperial Red).

Hopefully my opinion of it will improve over time, but for its price I think the pen should have been made of significantly better materials.