The family keepsakes include an ornate Waterman fountain pen, a Dorflinger cut glass carafe, a Fenton “Buttons and Braids” pitcher, and a Wedgwood coffee can cup and saucer. The colorful ...

Frank Dan Waterman, who made the Waterman fountain pen a household word and a worldwide favorite at the turn of the century, loved his adopted city of Eustis. To provide a hotel for the hundreds ...

The first successful, improved fountain pen was designed by a frustrated insurance salesman named Lewis Waterman in 1884. Waterman was attempting to sign a vital document to buy a building site.

By the late 19th century, the Waterman and Parker brands were mass marketed in America. Fountain pens became more commonplace than dip pens around the time of the World War I, although early 20th ...

“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 ...