Here’s a wonderful fountain pen article that everyone should read.  

Fountain Pen Sales Are Surging, Despite Flat Luxury Global Sales

Informative, entertaining and inspiring.  Here are some take-aways:

“The overall market for personal luxury goods was flat over the same period, and the contrast suggests that good pens have sturdier value, culturally and otherwise, than the fancy handbags and cashmere overcoats in which they’re stowed.”

“…senior Wiederlight (of the Fountain Pen Hospital store) told the New York Times that sales had more than tripled over the most recent two years: “You know why? Because everyone has their hands on the computer. People want to write.”

“Any doodad can be a status symbol, and any old objet d’art can be eyeballed, but from a beautiful pen flows great self-expression.“

-Write on! Twigg