Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

The year 1924 is an auspicious one as far as fountain pen history is concerned. It was then that a German company called Simplizissimus-Füllhalter — something or other about fountain pens ...