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 ...

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Fountain pens became more commonplace than dip pens around the time of the World War I, although early 20th-century schoolchildren were still learning how to write with the older implements.

Parker, which has manufactured fountain pens since 1888, claims a worldwide "resurgence" in the past five years, and rival Lamy says turnover increased by more than 5% in 2011.

It's Made to Take a Beating. From what I've read, the original marketing pitch of the Safari was that it was for kids. (If you haven't been able to tell yet, I never had to use a fountain pen in ...

Arthur Conan Doyle was known to have used a Parker Duofold Classic to write his iconic detective novels, a fountain pen that retails today for £389.95, and you only have to catch a glimpse at the ...

The gesture comes despite his pen leaking as he signed the Hillsborough visitor’s book during a visit in September 2022, after six days of national mourning for the death of his mother, Queen ...

Parker’s Duofold, launched in 1921, is a perennial; the white star on the lid of the ‘power pen’ of the Eighties, Montblanc’s omnipresent Meisterstück, peers out of many an executive’s ...

I first heard about the existence of fountain pen lovers’ gatherings from Marc Pelletier, of Castine, Maine, a family friend whom I met recently on a trip to Maine. He had written my daughter ...

Fountain pens have come a long way since the Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru received a patent from the French government in 1827 for a pen with a barrel made from a large swan quill. Sixty years ...

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