Using a fountain pen may take you back to your childhood and learning to write with ink for the first time, but they are ... stationery lovers everywhere, Parker does not disappoint.

George S Parker filed his first patent in 1889. He established the Parker Pen Company to manufacturer a superior writing instrument. By the 1920s the Parker pen was established as the leading ...

every stinking time,” before walking away. Queen Elizabeth used the same pen for several decades and awarded Parker a royal warrant in 1962, as did Charles, then Prince of Wales, in 1990.