Designed to look like a fighter plane without wings, the Parker 51 fountain pen was considered pricey when it came on the market in 1941 at $12.50. Now, because so many are still in circulation (more ...

After our paean to Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electrical vehicle last week, this Friday offers not another ridiculed invention of the 1980s, but a true timeless classic: the venerable, humble, and ...

Next month, in celebration of Parker’s 130th anniversary, a new Duofold pen is making its debut, commemorating founder George S. Parker’s travels around the globe. The Duofold “The Craft of Travelling ...

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You might expect that email and the ballpoint pen had killed the fountain pen. But sales are rising, so is the fountain pen a curious example of an old-fashioned object surviving the winds of change?

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 ...