The HMS Victory is a 104-gun, first-rate, ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy.  It was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765.  She is best known as Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship (flagship of the First Sea Lord) at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.  Admiral Lord Nelson led twenty-seven British ships of the line and defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships.  During the battle, Admiral Lord Nelson was shot by a French musketeer and died three hours later on the deck of the Victory.  In 1922 the HMS Victory was placed permanently into dry dock in the Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, where she remains today.  Over 25 million visitors have visited her as a museum of the sailing navy and the oldest commissioned warship in the world.  She is the only surviving line of battle ship from the Age of Sail. 

A customer recently purchased a new Dodge Challenger Hellcat and wanted a pen to match the bright green color on his Hellcat.

The Lucin Cut-Off was a train trestle of the Southern Pacific railroad and went from Lucin, Utah to Ogden, Utah and was built across the Great Salt Lake in Utah.  Construction started in August 1902 and the trestle was put into service on March 8, 1904.  It saved 43 miles of travel distance around the lake.  The curves and grades eliminated by this engineering feat saved enough power in moving such a train to carry a man 400 times between New York and San Francisco.   The trestle started to go into a decline in use starting in the 1960’s and in 1993 dismantling and salvage of the trestle began. 

Shittim (pronounced Shi-teem) Acacia wood from the Sinai Desert was the wood that was commanded to Moses in the construction of the Ark of the Covenant:

 Exodus 25:22 "It was made of acacia or shittim wood, a cubit and a half broad and high and two cubits long, and covered all over with the purest gold. Its upper surface or lid, the mercy-seat, was surrounded with a rim of gold; and on each of the two sides were two gold rings, in which were placed two gold-covered poles by which the ark could be carried."

This bolt action pen was made from a genuine barrel stave from the Jack Daniels distillery.  You can read more about these staves and see  video tour of the Jack Daniels Distillerye: http://www.tuscanypens.com/collezione-toscana-limited-edition-historical-pens-page-4/

The W.E. Marsh No. 4 was part of the Southern Pacific Railroad fleet used to help construct and then maintain the Lucin Cutoff trestle across the northern end of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. See our write-up of the Lucin Cutoff by clicking here.

The W.E. Marsh No. 4 was built in 1908 and last seen afloat on the Great Salt Lake in 1936.  This past Spring, the low waters of the lake exposed the remains of the boat.  Some of the wood was salvaged as shown in the photo below.  To preserve the wood, it was stabilized in a special acrylic solution under vacuum for 48 hours.  It was then turned on the lathe to produce the two bolt action pens shown.

This photograph shows a portion of the plank salvaged from the W.E. Marsh No. 4 before it was treated and stabilized. 

A jackpot winner at a nearby casino ordered a pen to commemorate his luck.  The body is black acrylic with the slot machine inlaid in white acrylic. (Sorry, we can't tell  you where or  how much!)