Considering adding a fountain pen to your communications? Start with a reliable but moderately priced brand -- and if you find yourself smitten, the sky's the limit in terms of styles, nib varieties, ...

The discussion over minute details at a Manhattan Beach hotel ballroom seemed endless: Is the ink chamber filled with a pump, a button or an eyedropper? Was the pen exposed to heat or humidity, which ...

PHILADELPHIA – At the second meeting of the Philly Pen Circle, attendees signed their names in a ledger from the 1800s and compared custom fountain pen nibs. Over the course of the evening, their ...

For 40 years, Boris Rice processed data and programmed computers for Exxon. These days, though, it’s not the prospect of the new Pentium Pro chip that races through his veins like peanut butter; it’s ...

British pens represent a small but compelling slice of the luxury market. Unlike the ubiquitous German and Italian models found in every airport, Anglo writing instruments are hard to come by but are ...

THERE’S HARDLY a day that goes by that I don’t get pens from somewhere,” said Carroll Wantz of Taneytown. Wantz is a pen collector, and the walls of his basement office are lined, floor to ceiling, ...

CARROLL WANTZ loves to collect pens. He’s almost religious about it. “Even have one that was blessed by the pope,” said Wantz, whose collection lines the walls of his basement in Taneytown. “That one ...

When he arrived at O`Hare International Airport on an overnight cargo flight from Houston, Glenn Bowen was detained by security guards. What, they wondered, was a man doing traveling in the middle of ...

Melvin S. Strohminger — a retired Social Security Administration analyst whose interest in vintage fountain pens from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s took him across the world and resulted in a world class ...

British pens represent a small but compelling slice of the luxury market. Unlike the ubiquitous German and Italian models found in every airport, Anglo writing instruments are hard to come by but are ...