Conventional dip pens typically had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman. Before the ...

Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your ... a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came ...

The family keepsakes include an ornate Waterman fountain pen, a Dorflinger cut glass carafe ... I would like to know how old it is and any idea about what it might be worth.

The fountain pen features a stainless-steel nib and the piston-driven ink filling method originated in the 1930s. The German company worked with designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld on its pens and ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s ... but it can be described as ‘scratchy’ when writing. The free-flowing fountain pen ink causes less surface tension when writing ...

New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain pen from an ... reliable and made to hold a lot of ink". "When I get an artisanal Indian pen, I look for individual craft instead ...