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It’s rare to receive a hand-written note these days. How many of us will sit down and actually write thank-yous for Christmas presents? We’re too far down the digital line to regard emails as somehow ...

George S Parker filed his first patent in 1889. He established the Parker Pen Company to manufacturer a superior writing instrument. By the 1920s the Parker pen was established as the leading ...

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?