Roger Cromwell buys and sells fountain pens. He repairs and restores them, knows their history and can speak at length on the various nibs, ink sacs, converters, pistons, barrels and pump fillers that ...

Pens might have lost their significance in today's technology-driven world where the keyboard or text messages are becoming essential. But not for many keen writers, for whom fountain pens are still a ...

A lot was going on in the United States in 1929, and not all of it was good. The stock market crashed, and the country was plunged into the Great Depression. But businessman Earl Fahrney took a gamble ...

Pune: When writing is easily entrusted to gadgets, the fountain pen seems like a relic. But a small band of enthusiasts still put the pen to paper and when it wears out, they don't mind spending to ...

Like a doctor is immediately recognised by his white coat and stethoscope, B. Shama Bhat, probably the city’s only pen repair specialist can be immediately recognised by ink-daubed fingers and caps of ...

The key turns with clockwork precision and the lock unlocks with a familiar click to reveal a portal where one feels as if one has travelled back in time. Such is the charm of the tiny ...

At a nondescript store in Kolkata, India with worn-out glass cabinets flaunting elite fountain pens, Shahbaz Reyaz is busy with a surgery of sorts. He gingerly unscrews a fountain pen, then removes a ...

Kolkata: Defunct fountain pens with broken nibs or other defects that are lying unused in city homes can now get a new lease of life at the three-day pen festival that started at the Indian Council ...