Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s hardly surprising that in our era of e-mails and text messages, many hark back with nostalgia to the days ...

In the digital age, some prefer to write using pen and ink, even if only when signing documents. Be it lawyers seeking an ostentatious pen (an extension of the ‘mine is bigger than yours’ mentality) ...

To start this New Year, our collectors submitted fine family heirlooms and an interesting antique shop find. The family keepsakes include an ornate Waterman fountain pen, a Dorflinger cut glass carafe ...

The practice of putting pen to paper may be severely stunted, but it’s far from dead. People still use pens to take notes, write letters and append signatures to documents of all sorts. Of course the ...

Jack Price, the longtime owner of Vintage Fountain Pen Sales & Repair, 3481 N. High St., was remembered last week by friends as a bit of a character, but also a man of abiding passions and a depth of ...

Pens can go for $40,000 and up for the most luxurious ones in the world Lewis Edson Waterman gets credit for taking the fountain pen to a new level More high-end pens coming through the auction house ...

In a world where the keypad is fast erasing handwriting skills of e-enabled people, there are a few shops in the Old City that still religiously cater to those scouting for the humble fountain pen.

Can you imagine applying for a loan to buy a fountain pen? Or using a pen as collateral for a personal loan? Ashok Jain from Delhi has a collection of over 1,400 pens. He also started the Pen Club of ...

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 ...