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 ...

There they rested: glitter-flecked, wooden, adorned with precious gems, containing a piece of John Hancock's desk and more ...

The condition is not altogether rare, considering its location -- on the nib of Grimmer’s 1920s Swan fountain pen. A tine is a sort of tapered finger, two of which form the nib’s tip.

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 ...

Even in the age of use-and-throw pens, 59-year-old Mr. Bhat still tends to pens, almost surgeon-like in his approach, replacing the bent nibs of fountain pens or diluting solidified ink to ensure ...

Fountain pens remain the top seller, ranging in price from $20 to $20,000. A popular option is the 1911 Sailor pen featuring platinum trim and a 21 karat gold nib.

Stashed inside that box was Mom’s collection of various fountain pens, spare nibs and two small bottles of jet-black ink. She had two kinds of fountain pens. One resembled a ball point pen but ...

One the country's preeminent pen doctors will be at the Baltimore-Washington Pen Show this weekend. He's training the next generation of nib docs as fountain pen sales increase in a digital world.