It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

He established the Parker Pen Company ... with matching ink, for writing and illustration throughout my school, college and university years supplemented with Rotring techical drawing pens that ...

Yes, such was the importance of the fountain pen in the previous century ... this everyday objét d’art represented permanence — its ink could not be erased — and professionalism.