The promise all good fountain pens deliver—be they expensive or affordable—is that they make your handwriting better than you ...

Fountain pens are also much better from an ecological point of view, reducing waste that goes to landfill, and they’re great if you have messy handwriting – as they force you to slow down and ...

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It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

At which point, in the mode of 20th-century American Judaism, he received a fountain pen. Yes, such was the importance of the fountain pen in the previous century that it became a symbol of the ...

When fountain pens first came along, they were revolutionary, albeit expensive and leaky. In 1900, the world literacy rate stood around 20%, and exorbitantly-priced, unreliable utensils weren’t ...

Classic bulk-bought ball-point pens cause painful writer’s bumps, while traditional fountain pens can often be too messy and high-maintenance for some. That one, unbranded hotel pen you’d ...

The Slimfold fountain pens (left) were sold in 4 colours {black ... The choice of nibs included italic, and as shown here needle point. These where obtained only by sending the pen to the Parker ...