Fountain pens have been in use for a very long time, with the first patent registered all the way back in 1827. With the invention of word processors, writing has changed a lot since then but one ...

We continue our Analogs series, about people who make things by hand, and what those things tell us about those people.

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

At which point, in the mode of 20th-century American Judaism, he received a fountain pen. Yes, such was the importance of the fountain pen in the previous century that it became a symbol of the ...

Pens where orginally supplied to the UK from Canada until 1941 when some models where made in Newhaven. The factory closed in 2009. The Slimfold fountain pens (left) were sold in 4 colours {black ...

Lamy, established in 1930, mainly markets ballpoint and fountain pens priced at several thousand yen in Europe and the United States. Its products are popular among stationery enthusiasts.