Without any confusion it can be said that fountain pens are the embodiment of enrichment of culture and heritage. When man first learnt to write with the purpose of  expressing his own joys and sorrows; hope and frustration; comedy and tragedy in writing, fountain pens were required to serve the purpose. Now one can argue […]

The idea of a fountain pen is slowly and steadily flowing out of the mind of people of the present times. The stiff competition that the bal tip and the more modern and economic versions of the felt pen are gradually consuming the market for fountain pens. The very idea of a fountain pen is […]

You might wonder what the name Montblanc has got to do with fountain pens. There is a long association between the two names. Montblanc is one of the tallest peaks in the world and the highest in Europe. The name is associated with the school of fountain pens in the degree that there is something […]

You would surely have used an ink pen at some point of time or the other. The basic mechanism is that of a design quiet similar to that of a quill. The basic problem in the quill or later forms of the wood pen were based in the fact that al of these were rather […]

The normal convention of the world is to bestow the credit of the designing of the fountain pen entirely upon the creative genius of Lewis Waterman. The truth is quiet the contrary as Waterman did not enter the picture of Fountain Pen industry until 1884 when the pen was as old as a good two […]

Even today pens are considered the best gift items for several occasions and when ever there is the discussion of a costly pen the immediate association is to the   brand name of the Parkers. Parker was introduced in the m markets around d the later part of the years fore ceding the 1920s. The pen […]

This is a move that most traditional fountain ink pen companies have adopted to adjust with the set market scenario. People have a lot of set prejudices regarding the design and the mechanism of an ink pen and the population of people using the fountain, as a source of writing is a very low statistic. […]

This is as much of a news item as that of an old granny getting married at the age of 90 to the younger generations. People are so used to the idea of buying new pens at the drop of a pendulum for the slightest of problems in the running of a pen and its […]

A ball point refill is a common thing but to come to think of a refill for a fountain pen might sound a little farfledged. The world is generally the buyer and the stockiest of ball pen refills and people never for once spare a thought in the direction of ink pens, let alone buy […]

Every product in the world at the present moment is a product of much pondering and hard work. A lot has to be done in order that the product in its later stages is a fine thing that owes much to its predecessors and is a greatly advanced item by the time the world comes […]