Conventional dip pens typically had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman. Before the ...

Swansea may be miles from Shullsburg, Wisconsin — but the Welsh poet and writer, Dylan Thomas, favoured a particular pen developed by American industrialist and Shullsburg native, George Safford ...

The family keepsakes include an ornate Waterman fountain pen, a Dorflinger cut glass carafe, a Fenton “Buttons and Braids” pitcher, and a Wedgwood coffee can cup and saucer. The colorful ...