The fountain pen as a practical writing instrument has been declared obsolete numerous times. It was supposedly doomed by the innovations of the drip-free ballpoint pen and the typewriter, then the ...

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Today’s businessmen are able to keep pace while on the go with BlackBerries or iPhones or portable devices with increasingly speedy processors and intuitive user interfaces. But in the 1800s the ...

Yes, there is such a thing as the Chicago Pen Show, where fountain pen aficionados like Paul Conterato of Geneva meet ...

Looking for a unique gift this holiday season—one that is sure to please and is equally appropriate for a man or a woman? Consider a fountain pen. With the variety of gorgeous writing instruments ...

I really love my Lamy Safari fountain pen. I’m not exactly sure where I first saw it. It might have been at Stevdan Stationers on Sixth Avenue, where I often wander around and test out pens — the ...

Wetting a fountain pen to compose a thank-you note is a grand way to express gratitude for a holiday gift, yet we often don’t give a thought to what happens when ink moves from pen to paper. But for a ...

Sitting at his store in Dhaka's Baitul Mukarram market, Mostofa Kamal Pasha was tinkering with a desk fountain pen that used to be a symbol of aristocracy decades back. Being a fountain pen enthusiast ...

New+Enthused: Hi, everyone. I was in my boss’s office a few days ago, and I noticed that he was writing with a fountain pen. I don’t think I’d ever seen anyone actually use one before, and I said so.