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 ...

Doctors are known for their illegible handwriting, so it might be surprising to look inside Dromgoole's, a pen and stationery shop in the Rice Village. It's a hangout for doctors who dig fountain pens ...

In an age of word processors, microchips and speed-of-light telecommunications, it’s somehow reassuring that Todd McInnis’ fountain pen repair business is thriving. “I’m not sure why, but people have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rosenwald writes for the Washington Post. WASHINGTON — Richard Binder’s first patient of the morning was delivered by Air Force Maj. Jared Grimmer. Ailment: bum left tine. The condition is not ...

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 ...

The Baltimore-Washington International Pen Show is this weekend — nearly 100 tables of fountain pens and dealers from around the country — and that means I get to sit down in front of Richard Binder ...