Roger Cromwell buys and sells fountain pens. He repairs and restores them, knows their history and can speak at length on the various nibs, ink sacs, converters, pistons, barrels and pump fillers that ...

Pens might have lost their significance in today's technology-driven world where the keyboard or text messages are becoming essential. But not for many keen writers, for whom fountain pens are still a ...

Pune: When writing is easily entrusted to gadgets, the fountain pen seems like a relic. But a small band of enthusiasts still ...

Mohammad Shahbaz Reyaz is in a hurry. He politely says, ek second (one second) and puts the phone aside. For the next two minutes or so, as different voices move across my ears like moody waves, I am ...

The key turns with clockwork precision and the lock unlocks with a familiar click to reveal a portal where one feels as if one has travelled back in time. Such is the charm of the tiny ...

You might expect that email and the ballpoint pen had killed the fountain pen. But sales are rising, so is the fountain pen a curious example of an old-fashioned object surviving the winds of change?

Kolkata: Defunct fountain pens with broken nibs or other defects that are lying unused in city homes can now get a new lease of life at the three-day pen festival that started at the Indian Council ...

The ink stains on his fingers and the vintage pens tucked into his pocket are what identify C A Shanavas as a ‘pen doctor,’ just like a stethoscope marks a physician. Though the once-popular, fancy ...

From the new David Oscarson Take It to the Limit collection in Ruby Red Smoke. There’s lots to consider when choosing a fountain pen for daily use, from material to weight to nib options to price—not ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...