It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

A fine fountain pen is a lifetime companion, but even a well-engineered, low-cost refillable rollerball should be desirable enough to make you want to keep it around. Here’s our guide to the ...

Precisely machined from titanium, the Monoc can be supplied with most of the company’s range of pocket and full-sized fountain pens and will be built in strictly limited numbers. The unique design ...

Available with a ballpoint or fountain pen tip, we’re partial to the perennially stylish forest green and gold trim design. A brilliant hybrid writing instrument, the Uni-Ball Jetstream glides ...

She said women in particular enjoy using colorful inks to doodle, draw and write. This is because inks can promptly be changed, unlike their fountain pen counterparts, once the nib is washed in water.

He established the Parker Pen Company to manufacturer a superior writing instrument ... The Slimfold fountain pens (left) were sold in 4 colours {black, blue, red and green).

I can only imagine that he would hold his gold writing instrument aloft and bemusingly exclaim, “Today, I am — still — a fountain pen!” ...

New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain ... your pen, and a dropper to fill it. And there were always ink stains on your clothes," says Mr Ghosh, 64. The joys of writing ...