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 ...

Think of all the famous French writers of history. There was Albert Camus, Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust. Then there was Jules Verne and Jean-Paul Sartre. Nor can we forget Gustave Flaubert. The ...

It was in the late nineteenth century, after several years of trials and much effort, close to the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign that a reliable fountain pen was finally produced thus ...

The evolution of writing implement technology is a continuous and subtle one. Lewis Waterman opened up the possibility of portable pens with his invention of a practical fountain pen in 1884. But ...

It started a thousand years ago with a turkey feather. Someone must have looked at the hollow shaft of the quill and made the jump to: “I’ll whittle a point on the end, dip it in this mixture of berry ...

Antiques Roadshow graced our TV screens again on Sunday (6 April) with a fresh episode from Ebrington Square in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. One visitor brought along a pristine set of ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...