It is now less than 4 weeks until Christmas, and the relatively new shopping sensation (to the UK at least) ‘Black Friday’ is seemingly bringing out the worst in people. Encouraging people to panic buy items they don’t really want, all because of an artificially discounted price.
At The Pen Company we do things a little differently! We pride ourselves on offering great value and excellent customer service all year round.
Based in the small market town of Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, we’ve been sending luxury pens and beautiful pencils around the world for over a decade. Additionally, unlike some UK pen shops, when we say it’s in stock, it’s in stock; we do not drop ship.
So if pushing your way through the crowds this Christmas isn’t your ‘cup of tea’, why not browse our range of Luxury & Designer pen brands and find something for that extra special someone.
We aim to beat any genuine price; if you do manage to find one of our products for less, why not drop us an email, or give us a ring?
Competition
One lucky winner will receive their choice of a Anthracite Graf von Faber-Castell Guilloche Ciselé as either a fountain, ballpoint, rollerball, or mechanical pencil worth up to £310.50! A stunning addition to the Guilloche range, the Ciselé features a deeply engraved herringbone pattern, available in anthracite, brown and the new light grey with rhodium plated trim. This pen comes from the premium Graf von Faber Castell range.
How to enter
There are several ways to enter using the widget below. The more times you enter, the greater your chance of winning.
This competition is open to contestants worldwide. The winner will be chosen at random at noon GMT on the 18th December 2014.
Good luck!
Thanks for the chance . . .
Family, sharing, peace on earth and good will toward all. We are one after all.
Best Christmas is peace, joy, giving and taking time to love one another.
Relaxing at home with the family.
I’d love to get up before dawn, drive into the centre of London, and shoot the city at its most still and quiet. Get home in time for lovely lunch, and plenty of time cuddling our son!
Taking a break from studying… And trying out new stationery!
SLEEPING
One where I’m not actually working for the 3rd year in a row !
spending time with my family
My ideal Christmas? Snow!!!
My ideal Christmas would be to have my kids and grandson here for Christmas.
My ideal Christmas is spent with the five F’s – food, family, food, friends, and food!
I love christmas. I sit under the tree next to my family. My child opens the presents and we drink Hot Chocolate
Relaxing with some good food!
Nice giveaway. Would love the opportunity to own a Graf von Faber-Castell.
Family and food with plenty of time to enjoy both
A Christmas with my fathers.
Christmas with my family.
Great new pens under the tree, and warm cinnamon rolls, hopefully with pecans. And French Roast coffee!
nice pen would love to have it
Delicious food, fabulous company, and an entire day in my PJs!
Hm, ideal Christmas? Um…I’m not Christian, but still really want this pen! Thanks.
My ideal Christmas would be sleeping in until the day ofter Christmas.
My ideal Christmas is spending the morning opening gifts with my family and friends and then sitting down to a nice turkey dinner. A sweet pen would make it even more ideal!!
Would love to win this for my hubby. Ideal Christmas would be to be at a bowl game with my hubby’s team cheering them to victory
My ideal Christmas is spending time with people I love and laughing til my sides ache.
The ideal christmas for me would be spending it together with my family, eating tasty food and giving and receiving nice gifts. This year a nice fountain pen is at the top of the list, this contest fits me perfectly!
The ideal Christmas is spending time with family and enjoying food prepared by everyone!
one with good grades and a job
A quiet Christmas with a new pen.
My ideal Christmas is a quiet one with close family and friends.
My ideal Christmas is spending quality time with friends and family over good food and drinks.
My Ideal Christmas is a week leave for Gaming
Xmas filled with fountain pen gifts!
My ideal Christmas is one spent with family and friends.
My Ideal christmas? win this great pen!
Being with loved ones around me and seeing them smile.
Christmas for me means to be with family and people I love.
My idea Christmas is, fortunately, my Christmas every year: I get to go home to my parent’s and spend the holiday with my entire family.
My ideal Christmas would be to win this pen.
Time with friends and family.
A new pen
Watching it snow and enjoying the day with my family.
My perfect Christmas is a quiet dinner with the immediate family and an evening in front of the fire–I not much for Holidays, lol!
My ideal christmas is simply being around my family and significant other, sitting around the christmas tree singing christian songs. 🙂
Waking up super early to open lots of presents with my family, then a relaxing day at home to play with all the new stuff. What can I say? The marketing really works on me.
Having all my family round and enjoying a meal and time together
My ideal Christmas is visiting the family and having a relaxing time together.
being with lots of extended family
Spending time with my loved ones!
Being with family and friends and sharing precious moments together!
Sharing the day with all the family, and watching the grandchildren opening their presents
The children are happy, everyone’s well fed and happy and we can sit and watch Christmas TV together.
Too have my 3 children with me, playing games, eating lots of food and watching lots if films, perfect.
Being with family in a chalet in Switzerland
ONE OF THESE PENS WOULD BE NICE
Spending time with my family
Having a rest and spending time with friends and family.
best Christmas is to spend quiet time with family
My ideal Christmas is having my son come over and spend Christmas eve, then cooking together on Christmas day after opening gifts and eating a decadent breakfast.
Christmas means having all the family at home – nothing else matters.
Just being with my family, that’s all that’s important at Christmas.
It would snow so everywhere looks beautiful. Then sit in front of a log fire with a wee dram.
Food and Family of course!
Beer, family, turkey. In that order.
A quiet one at home with my family 🙂
Having lovely new pens haha. Good luck and happy Christmas all xx
A nice Christmas meal and spending time with my kids
White christmas..Lots of snow!
Quiet. sunny, mild and argument free 🙂
Cosy, warm, family-filled and no need to change out of pyjamas
My ideal Christmas is to spend it with my children and husband, snug in our jammies, in a warm house, watching the snow fall. We read the Christmas story from the Bible and drink hot chocolate.
Spending a relaxing Christmas at home and seeing my children so excited and happy.
My ideal Christmas is a day with all my family and friends 🙂
With my family relaxing by the fire and seeing my children smiling
With my family, kids enjoying themselves and having peace in my heart.
With my family safe at home, and no need to rush to do anything by a particular time.
Family, food, presents! Snowy & Chilly
Lots of fun and laughter x
with friends and family
Snow, nice Christmas cards (written with a fountain pen!), music and family
A quiet evening at the fireplace with m y loved ones.
Snow outside the windows, candle light, good food and good company!
being in side of my family
My ideal Christmas is a quiet one with no fuss.
Always starts by listening to the carols from King’s on Christmas Eve. Even when I had to do it on the internet from the shores of the Persian Gulf.
Having all the family around, no dramas – burnt diner, unwell kids etc, and everyone getting on – even if just for the day!
One spent with all the family x
Spending it with my family
Getting all my friends and family together in a old stately home to eat drink and play parlour games
My ideal Christmas is going to Church with the wife, hopefully walking down through the ancient streets of Leominster over the freshly fallen snow, having a glass of something decadent after the service. Heading home for a huge portion of Macaroni Cheese (the only veggie alternative worth considering!!) then eating an indecent amount of either treacle sponge or blackcurrent pie with custard or icecream (I could go either way). The, after a brief but interesting nap, walking the dog. Then home, through the kettle on and huge cup of coffee sat next to a large glass of something distilled to open a few small presents, nothing outlandish, just a small couple of somethings from people who know what I like or what I need. Also, seeing the look on the wife’s face when she sees that I have bought her something useful, nice and something that she can use all year around
seeing the family, having fab food and playing silly games
With my family, with snow outside
Being with my family, eating my mom’s food!
Opening a box of pens.
Having the family round me, well and happy
My ideal Christmas is our family, all together.
My ideal Christmas is all the family together and everyone healthy and happy.
spending time with family, pets, friends – just relaxing
My ideal Christmas would be to be able to get home to Australia to spend Christmas with the family that I haven’t had Christmas with at home in 19 years – and being able to show my wife and kids what Christmas in Australia is like.
All the cooking done, calorie free wine and chocolates everywhere and everyone having fun
Being with friends and eating great food.
I love to drive in the evening just before Christmas, quietly through the snowy, almost empty road. I like to come in from the cold and snow to a house that smells of Christmas. But I also love to wake up in the morning on Christmas Day and hear excited voices of children watching again their presents (in Poland, we give gifts on Christmas Eve, the evening). But I can not imagine a Christmas without all the preparations for Christmas Eve … My dream holidays can be any, as long as they were with those I love.
My ideal xmas includes none of the family working, and my daughter getting everything she wants.
being with all the family
Spending a quiet and relaxing day with loved ones.
Christmas morning with family and food and eggnog is what I always want.
Lots of snow on Christmas eve and a peaceful Christmas day with my family, having fun in the snow.
a quiet day with family, and lots of snow
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this wonderful giveaway!
Getting to spend time with the whole family.
Thanks for the giveaway! The ideal Christmas would just be time with the whole family.
Time with the family, the feeling you only experience once a year…
Oh and a Meisterstück 149. 😉
Ideal Christmas? One with happy mail day. 😉 LOL
To have my family and animals with me, healthy and happy, that is ideal.
Seeing my grandson open his presents and having a great laugh with the family.
My ideal Christmas is simply one spent with my wife and four small children. I very much enjoy experiencing the wonder of Christmas through their eyes!
My ideal Christmas would be spending time with my husband and binge watching all the Christmas movies we own will munching on some delicious holiday treats!
Peace and quiet is all I ask
a good old shindig with family and friends
A happy peaceful family affair
Lots of quality time with my family and someone else cooking the dinner!
A nice christmas with the people i like around me, some good food and a great nice dark beer.
Spending it with my family and friends with all mobile phones and computers turned off.
With family and friends somewhere cold and inhospitable outside and a roaring fire inside – lots of board games – lots of good food – lots of desserts….
Spending time with my family, doggie, and friends is what I think of when I think Christmas!
A quiet Christmas with the family going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and a nice Christmas dinner.
Ideal Christmas would have all my family together
We’re going to Disney world this year. That seems pretty ideal to me
Ideal Christmas – where all my kids have a nice visit from Santa
My ideal Christmas is kind like Americans celebrate Thanksgiving: being with loved ones, eating, drinking and generally having a good time.
A quiet day with my wife!
An ideal Christmas is a simple one, low-key. Warm & comfortable. Filled with music and enjoyable smells.
It would be great to have true winter snowy day and celebrate in with my family.
A fantastic country cottage with all the family there
Spending the day with my family.
Spending the day with my family
A carefree day with lots of laughter
Spending the day with the family
Ideal Christmas? That would be the one, where i’d have something like 7 years. Back then, everything was ideal.
Having a relaxing break from school with the family
My ideal Christmas is curled up in the warm with my family, bellies full with good food, lots of laughter and silliness, watching the tree lights flickering and watching the re-runs of old Christmas specials on telly.
Can’t wait for the big day…my favourite time of year!
My ideal Christmas is sitting on the sofa late on Christmas Eve with a big mug of hot chocolate topped with mini marshmallows and squirty cream whilst watching Miracle on 34th Street in the lounge with all the family around and just the twinkling Christmas Tree lights for lighting…the lovely warm glow from them and that film are just the best!
My ideal Christmas is a chill day at home with my family and a crockpot full of gluwein!
My ideal Christmas is at a chalet in the mountains in a soft bedroom with a warm fireplace my best friend and my kitties.
Christmas with friends watching those old Stop Motion animated specials 🙂
What is your ideal Christmas? Mine would be with family, old recipe food, and snow. Ideal gift, would be time spent through out the year. Cost nothing, but brings so much joy!
Spending time with family and friends. Getting steadily drunk enough to enjoy the Downton Abbey Christmas Special.
Christmas with family, doing nothing, spending time together at home
Going to candle light Christmas Eve service with family, then spending Christmas day with family. Lots of good food and conversations! 🙂
Ideal Christmas? Time off work, fun with family, snuggling by open fire with loved one :o)
food and booze with friends!
My ideal Christmas would be spending the whole week with my mom and brother, hanging out, making cookies, doing puzzles, playing games, eating tons of good food, and then giving each other Christmas gifts on Christmas morning while watching A Christmas Story!
Lots and lots of pie. pecan and pumpkin pie. that is usually what i do and love it
I’m affraid I’m one of those people who hate Christmas. I only like the family part and the food. But all the other stuff – the music in the streets, the shopping frenzy, the cold weather, the hot glühwein (yuk!), the decorated trees – is just not my cup of tea.
Family all together..Great
Opening gifts and having a nice meal with the family 🙂
Cosy nights in with good food and a film.
I love christmas with close family and friends, being able to eat drink and be merry 🙂
having all the family at home
A house full of family, a snowy day, kids and dogs and presents and hot coffee and the smell of baking.
y Idea Christmas Is To Spend Time With My Family xxx
My ideal Christmas would be spending time with my mom and dad. Drinking hot cocoa around a fire. With the football game and a white Christmas for sure!!! I always love the food and am always in need of some of that !!! Christmas is always my favorite because of my birthday is 2 days afterwards. THIS year I am going to be 18 WOOHOO. Hopefully my Christmas will have an extra gift coming this year.^^^^ Be blessed guys and a Happy New Year!!1
All the family being able to get together
a happy day xx
snuggling up with hubby and kids and doing nothing
spending time with family
at home with lots of games and food
Beautiful pen. My ideal Christmas would be in a country cottage with a log fire, snow falling outside and my family all enjoying a lovely festive dinner.
Ideal Christmas has to be surrounded by family and friends in a lovely Scottish log cabin looking over the snowy hill whilst sitting around a roaring fire x
Just having all the family together does it for me
Right now, just being with my partner…who’s 5500 miles away, and I won’t be with this year.
a peacefull day just me hubby and 3 dogs
A quiet day in the company of good friends
Having a wonderful day with my parents and family.
All the family together having fun
Spending it with the family, dinner cooked perfectly and no arguing!!!!!!!!!!!
A lovely new pen
My ideal Christmas is being in the house with my wife and shutting the rest of the world outside! Fat chance of that though…..
It would be to be by the sea somewhere warm. But a close second is seeing family members getting together under one roof.
In front of a log fire with my dog asleep at my feet.
A peaceful one, where everybody enjoys it and makes wonderful memories x
i lost my first Faber-Castell pen and couldnt be without one !!
Kids being happy & no squabbling……now that would be bliss!
A lovely long walk in the morning, lunch with the family, and then a drive up to the West End to see the lights, listening to Xmas songs! Amazing giveaway, thank you! x
Ideal Christmas? Spending quality time with the family.
Church, family, food, drink, laughter and memories.
Fingers crossed!
Having all my family at home, good food, drink and music.
The rest away from work and spending a day in PJs would be ideal!
Having a happy time with friends and family x
A lovely time with my family and friends, giving them lovely gifts and eating and lots of chocolate! 🙂
I grew up in NYC, and my ideal Christmas was Christmas Eve dinner at my Grandmother’s house with 15 or so relatives and lots of Italian food! And.. a visit to the big tree at Rockefeller Center, with a hot pretzel!!
My ideal Christmas would be sharing a meal outside amongst the trees with my family. I really enjoy nature, so being in a stuffy house (like every Christmas) makes me uncomfortable.
Ideal Christmas will be spent with my family.
My ideal Christmas is in a cabin in the woods. It snowed overnight, and we wake up to a beautiful winter wonderland. We get up and make a fire, I make coffee and breakfast, and then I curl up with some paper and pens to write letters and short stories…
My Ideal Christmas is happy healthy children, a warm house, alcohol , cosy fire at our own house and then after a lovely christmas lunch ,a long wintery walk to make Lizzie the dogs day a special christmas too!
My best friend left the US to marry her true love and moved to, of all places, Hitchin! So you now have a special place in my heart and I have TWO big reasons to visit Hitchin.
My ideal Christmas? Peace, individual and societal, in which we can all breathe, and relax a little. Enjoying the season and the goodwill that should abound.
My ideal christmas is to have all of my family together, and they all bought my stationery gifts. Ok im joking about the gifts – ok, you got me, I want the gifts.
My ideal Christmas is to have my family together.. happy and healthy. or live in house full of sexy girls. but yeah… family first. 🙂
My ideal ‘christmas’ is a family event with more emphasis on social events. It’s also my Birthday so that needs to fit in too and my wife does a lovely job of managing it 🙂
Ideal Christmas would be surrounded by family and not have to deal with holiday stress like we usually do.
Ideal Christmas…. For us to have power this year!
My ideal Christmas would be a lot quieter than last year! @garywasabi
Being with the people I love 😀
with my wife and kids ,visiting family
one where i win the lotto and go away for some sunshine
My ideal Christmas is hanging out with my family and eating nice home-cooked food. We don’t really celebrate Christmas, though! ;D
Having all my family at home
peaceful family Christmas
Being happy that I’m done with finals and spending time with friends and family in my hometown!
Well my ideal Christmas is sitting in with the Family, away from the cold, eating a very nice turkey dinner, drinking wine and opening my presents. No worries just great , seeing my best friends face when he opens his one of a kind gift i got him! And watching some gurrrd Movies with the family 🙂 Perfect Christmas for me!
Peace and quiet with the family
A relaxed and cosy get-together
Any time with my family!
A trip home with my husband to see family and friends
Any time with my family!
My ideal Christmas would be a snowy log cabin with a roaring fire…
One surrounded by family and friends. EJ Dunn
On where as a family we can relax, play games together, eat good food and appreciate how lucky we are!
A white one 🙂
with all the family together, relaxed, happy and enjoying the day with good food and company
Being with family, relaxed, happy and safe x
hopeful 🙂
Having all my family sat around the same table at the same time for once. Even the grumpy teenager who really doesn’t want to be there!
spending time with family and someone I love
A big meal with my family followed by an afternoon of games.
Being with the family and the little ones
Back home with my family and loved one.
With my family & cousins!
Mu ideal Christmas is to relax in the good company of family and friends.
Snow falling, midnight mass at St Albans Cathedral, then presents and a lovely dinner with the family.
A silent, rhythmic Christmas Eve preparing with good company and a glass of wine
Awesome giveaway!
A Christmas spent with family : )
A nice relaxing time with the family
peace and happiness
Being with family and watching christmas movies in my pjs
A morning spent with the wider family then an afternoon with my partner and the dog , sharing presents, eating and vegging out with the world kept at bay .
Being with family, eating apple pie and drinking hot chocolate while at a ski resort!
Family share great times together
Family gathering with all loved ones
A peaceful one, surrounded by the people I love
One where my husband cooks,
and the kids are surrounded by toys and books,
while I am sitting there, watching the telly,
enjoying the ambience, and fillin’ mah belly! lol x
big family xmas ,dinner, presents and everyone happy x
Solem Moments Of Contemplation …
Slippers .. Muled Wine Hot Yorkshire Tea …
And A Couple Of Hours With My Telescope
spending it with my whole family, about 20 of us now, and doing all the family xmas traditions
Sharing the excitement with the grandchildren, eating a lovely family meal then home to luxuriate in the peace, quiet and tranquility 🙂
Having quality time celebrating the wonderful birth of Jesus and enjoying the delicious food!
relaxing with the family 🙂
Being waited on at my son’s house and spending quality time with all my family.
Relaxing with the family.
spending time with the family
Spending quality time with my Family and friends
Spending time with family!
Having all the family home for Christmas….and the Christmas dinner turning out perfectly:)
A quiet one. At least I have the 25th off for only the 2nd time time 17 years!
Surrounded by family, having a good time…nice and simple
Being with my wife and children
Being around family
family and friends gathered together
My ideal Christmas is….no work…kids magically lie in…dog decides she doesn’t need a walk….hubby volunteers to make the dinner – and I get one of these pens as a gift – they’re stunning!
At home with my family
Together with all the family
What we have – at home with the family all our favourite food s- but someone else washing up
A Christmas full of fun, laughter and love <3
Lots of cuddles with my twins and their daddy… would love to sign our wedding register with this pen next year x
With family and friends
Going somewhere sunny and warm for a break away
relaxing with the family, lots of presents in front of a fire, scrumptious dinner, collapse afterwards playing games and watching TV
Spending quality time with my family and eating lots
family christmas meal
Ideal Christmas would be on holiday
A hotel (or cruise) with all my family – lots of fun and no work!
My family at home, a log fire, a full stomach and a Christmas movie on the TV – bliss
wow what a prize