As someone who looks deeply beneath the surface of things, I have been obsessed for some years by the great philosophical question: when did expensive pens become "prestige writing instruments?" I ...

There’s nothing quite like using the best fountain pens to get your writing done. The whole experience is rewarding, from purchasing one and unpacking it, to using it for the first time. When you buy ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

We’ve asked the big questions – does it write smoothly, gliding across the page and releasing ink evenly? How does it feel to hold? (The Independent) There are two types of people in the world – those ...

The star of the Johannes Kepler High Artistry Homage Limited Edition collection, featuring four styles of fountain pen, is the Johannes Kepler High Artistry Stella Nova Limited Edition 1 The pen is ...

"Since 2007, I have been writing only with fountain pens and own more than 500 of them. Not only do I collect fountain pens, I also love to gift fountain pens." ...

Among the obituaries of a former Conservative Minister a few years ago, there was one delightful snippet. A line in The Daily Telegraph described how, when she received the letter from Mrs Thatcher ...

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I read in one of the two or three dozen high-end magazines circulating around Lakewood Ranch that the fountain pen is making a comeback. I do not know if the author of the article is old enough to ...