In an age of screens and keyboarding, when kids hardly learn cursive anymore, fountain pens — along with their old-timey accoutrements like blotters, bottled ink and fancy nibs — are making a comeback ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Gary Beckner is a big collector of small things. He restores and collects fountain pens, which connect him to history. Beckner says the small pieces of history are intended to ...
This undated photo provided by the Goulet Pen Company shows a LAMY Vista fountain pen and drawing made with the pen by Adam Schultz. In our computerized age, the old-fashioned fountain pen _ all ...
I was sitting around reflecting on fond memories of my days at Martha Washington Elementary School, at 44th and Aspen streets in West Philadelphia. I concentrated on that period of 1945 through 1951.
As much as the digital world has sparked a counter-revolution in analogue technologies – vinyl, film cameras and the like – ...
I've always appreciated a fine writing implement. At Popular Mechanics, my starting rotation features a Tetzbo ballpoint pen from Japan, a Koh-I-Noor mechanical pencil from the Czech Republic, and a ...
This essay is part of a collection of Lore Segal’s work, to be published by Melville House. Iwas not keeping a journal in the fifth form at Guildford High School the year my fountain pen went missing.
I really love my Lamy Safari fountain pen. I’m not exactly sure where I first saw it. It might have been at Stevdan Stationers on Sixth Avenue, where I often wander around and test out pens — the ...