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Retrospective of the Bic Cristal pen
Open Culture's retrospective of one of the world's most successful consumer products opens with a reminder that you don't need to be shown such things because they're everywhere. Bich (the foreign ...
A fountain pen, to me, was something people used for actual calligraphy. I knew fountain pens were part of the whole Classic Man thing that Esquire is built on, but I tapped out at buying a nice suit.
But it’s fountain pens — yes, fountain pens — that account for 75% of Atlas’ sales of “fine writing instruments.” In the same way that his father Don, Atlas’ CEO, could deliver a dissertation on copy ...
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Writing with a fountain pen demands mindfulness. Each stroke is intentional. They are finicky and need to be handled gently. But their finickiness is what infuses even banal tasks with thoughtfulness.
Fountain pen collectors don’t all go after super-expensive pens. Collectors love the Lamy AL-Star because it comes in a lot of colors. With an aluminum casing and a snazzy clip, it’s simply a ...
London (CNN) — Catherine, Princess of Wales has penned a moving letter about love and empathy to those attending her “Together At Christmas” carol service at Westminster Abbey on Friday and ...
Being a fountain pen enthusiast, this correspondent could not contain his curiosity and had a closer look. It was a Sheaffer's Touchdown desk fountain pen with a 14-carat gold "Triumph" nib, a ...
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.