Chinese knockoffs are flooding the market, shaking up the community of enthusiasts still devoted to the old-timey instruments ...

Brian Gray of Edison Pen Company in Milan, Ohio, at his desk in his machine shop. (Courtesy Edison Pen Company) MILAN -- Even if you couldn't care less about writing your name, when Brian Gray brings ...

Before the ballpoint pen, there was a time when fountain pens were elegant tools that made a wide line down the back of an L and a thin one as it slashed across its bottom. "The power of the pen," ...

The fountain pen as a practical writing instrument has been declared obsolete numerous times. It was supposedly doomed by the innovations of the drip-free ballpoint pen and the typewriter, then the ...

A felt-lined tray is placed on the counter separating me from the gleaming shrines at the William Penn boutique store at High Street Phoenix Mall in Lower Parel, Mumbai. Slipping on a dark glove, the ...

I'm a self-admitted fanatic when it comes to pens and writing utensils of pretty much any sort. I have lusted after fountain pens for a long time, and wanted to try and start using one for my day to ...

TOTTORI--To order a custom-made fountain pen from Ryo Yamamoto, expect to wait 18 months for delivery. Yamamoto, 50, said he is overwhelmed with orders. Many of his clients are celebrities both in and ...

Design group ENSSO has launched a “scale ruler fountain pen” for architects, featuring 12 imperial and metric scales. Having launched on Kickstarter, the pen is now available for pre-order, made from ...

Just like wristwatches or cufflinks, fine pens have long outgrown their utilitarian roots, becoming subtle—or not so subtle, as the case may be—status symbols that reflect a part of their owners’ ...

It was a time of gas lamps and street cars when Fred Krinke’s grandfather flung open the doors to the Fountain Pen Shop, supplying the writing instruments and bottles of midnight-black ink that the ...