06th November 2009
History
The Parker pen company was founded in 1889 when George Parker, the founder who was also a sales agent for the John Holland Gold Pen Company, got the first patent for manufacturing a fountain pen. The popularity of the company skyrocketed in 189...
04th November 2009
‘Montblanc’. The name evokes a sense of grandeur, as it is the name of the highest mountain in Europe. The phrase means ‘white mountain’ in French. The name was adopted by the Simplo Filler Pen Company, which used to produce luxury pens in the Sch...
16th July 2009
The first pens
The first people to use the pen were, in all probability, the ancient Egyptians. They used reed pens to write on papyrus and thus the hieroglyphic form of writing was developed. At around the same time the Egyptians were using the reed p...
