By Uta teaching
BUSINESS GIFTS Jürgen Jung-Stadecken Elsheim has soft spot for pens / More than 5000 specimens from around the world
Garden gnomes, enamel signs, coins, or surprise eggs. It collected the craziest things - bought for a lot of money to get as a gift or a bequest. The AZ is a series of questions about why and how this passion for collecting results.
If one views it, except that Galileo already left a drawing showing a kind of forerunner of the pen, then there was the first of these writing instruments in 1945 in the USA. In Germany, the first models to be bought in 1950 for 20 marks.
"I got my first pen about 30 years ago, but it is not thought to collect them too," recalls Jürgen Jung. The thought occurred to him until he got a pen from Vienna in 1998 - light blue, with a round head on a thin pen. "I like him especially because he is so different from the usual, coolies', which is piled so with the time with me." Since then, he collects these pens, which sell their ink in a ball on the paper.
His passion for collecting brought him to this day about 5 000 different specimens, all made for promotional purposes.
The collection proves to be a space-saving and inexpensive pleasure: "I have not bought a single pen, have all presented as an advertising medium, or by people who knew of my insurance quotes collection, donated," he says. He let himself make of a disabled facility thick, long boards with corresponding insertion holes, which he has to stand on its window sills. His latest piece is a pen made by Lithuania to the European Basketball Championships in 2011, which have brought him friends.
Jung has stated recently that promotional gifts are becoming increasingly rare in any form. "I was recently at a trade show, and I bring home with only four pens can", he regrets and says he still keeps trying to make its collection more comprehensive. "I'll have to order new boards, but because there are already around some of these products to have their proper place."
Jürgen Jung traveled like distant lands, from which he brings with him his collection objects, such as Southeast Asia, South America, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Poland and Sweden. "I'm always amazed at the many design possibilities that can be the media planners come up for their advertising." He shows a pen from Bali, carved from wood by hand, two brightly painted from Russia, a slender babushka resemble or one of Rhode shoe manufacturer, which has the shape of a pencil, and probably the oldest sailor in the collection. Elsheimer, despite the many needs of his pen to look for long, if he wants to get a specific from the crowd. He knows every detail, even though he has not registered all of them in any way. "But I plan to sort it at some point according to certain criteria. This could be for 5 star hotels, insurance companies, car companies or doctors. What matters is how many come together in the respective groups. "
Jürgen Jung is with such enthusiasm in collecting pens in mind that it is a pleasure to rummage in drawers at home, to still find some of these copies for him.
