Drawing inspiration from classic designs from the past, the Bexley pen company has thus far led a relatively short—though eminently successful—life, having been founded in 1992 by a handful of pen ...

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 ...

Legend has it that Lewis Edson Waterman, an insurance salesman in New York City, invented the first truly functional fountain pen in the early 1880s for purely pragmatic reasons: A typical pen of 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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Anciently a man with bunched shoulder muscles squatted on his lean haunches and, with a piece of chipped flint, scratched a design on a piece of bone. That was writing. A Babylonian tucked his curled ...

Half a century is a long time to defy progress, to swim upstream, to celebrate what had been. In the beginning, Andreas Lambrou was just a schoolboy. In Nicosia, Cyprus, he started tagging along with ...

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 ...