The fountain pen is mightier than the handbag in keeping sales figures up
While overall market for personal luxury goods plateaus, sales of fountain pens was up 2.1 per cent in 2016 from a year earlier, reaching US$1.046 billion.
New York
A WIDE variety of communities have focused on Donald Trump's recent Oval Office signing ceremonies, but only one among them has turned close attention to the tool with which the new US president affixes his jagged signature to executive orders.
I refer, of course, to members of the Internet forum fpgeeks.com, a nonpartisan commission of Fountain Pen Geeks.
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