“On a fountain pen, it’s the nib.” Hammer has been selling pens since 1980 and has represented companies such as Waterman and Pelikan. He was at Fahrney’s repping Sailor, a Japanese ...

It was the TWSBI Diamond 580ALR, a sleek but hefty fountain pen with an aluminum grip and a finely engraved metal nib, the kind that needs to be manually filled with ink from a bottle.

Known for a wide variety of pens, fountain pen nibs and student-style pens, by 1918 it claimed production of 200 million pens per year and over 250 styles of nibs. By 1896, the Esterbrook Company ...

Thus the company's name, and its insignia: a fountain pen nib in a light bulb. Turns out, making custom-designed pens to an individual's specification was a bright idea for this Mount Vernon ...