Parker’s Duofold, launched in 1921, is a perennial; the white star on the lid of the ‘power pen’ of the Eighties, Montblanc’s omnipresent Meisterstück, peers out of many an executive’s ...

The factory closed in 2009. The Slimfold fountain pens (left) were sold in 4 colours {black, blue, red and green). Based upon the popular Duofold it is smaller and more slender.

It was a 1925 black-and-pearl-celluloid pen with a flexible nib, the part that touches the paper. Pelletier also mentioned that I was lucky to live in D.C., because the Washington DC Fountain Pen ...