I recently unearthed my grandfather’s fountain pen. A handsome thing housed in a gold body, it is inscribed with the date of his bar mitzvah: 1924. (No doubt he read a few dusty old lines in a ...

A fine fountain pen is a lifetime companion, but even a well-engineered, low-cost refillable rollerball should be desirable enough to make you want to keep it around. Here’s our guide to the ...

But let’s back it up a bit and talk about the new collection, then I’ll tell you more about the particulars of the pens. I was sad to see the discontinuation of the Montblanc Patron of Art ...

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 ...

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 ...