Ross Cameron of Conklin Pens shows a self-filling fountain pen at Fahrney’s Pens on F Street NW. But the fountain pen world is robust, or is at least in one of its periodic upswings. The current fountain pen revival, penfolk agree, has been driven by an unlikely group: millennials. It was the first expensive fountain pen she bought, a gift to herself after getting her driver’s license a couple of years ago. At the front, Ross Cameron demonstrated a $140 fountain pen from Conklin called the Crescent Filler, patented in 1901 as the world’s first self-filling fountain pen.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2019 19:43 UTC