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 ...

In an age of word processors, micro-chips 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 ...

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 ...

Like a doctor is immediately recognised by his white coat and stethoscope, B. Shama Bhat, probably the city’s only pen repair specialist can be immediately recognised by ink-daubed fingers and caps of ...

Clipping a quality fountain pen to one's chest pocket was once a symbol of fashion and high social status. In the days when ballpoint pens were not widely used, fountain pen repair was an essential ...

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 Council ...