7 Amazon Fountain Pens That Put Expensive Brands to Shame!

7 Amazon Fountain Pens That Put Expensive Brands to Shame! These are seven fountain pens you can buy once and, with reasonable care, hand to somebody else in fifty years. Some of them cost under three hundred dollars. One of them was designed in 1966 and has barely changed since. And all of them survived the single most destructive event in the history of the fountain pen. Because that's the thing worth understanding first. The fountain pen almost died. Lewis Edson Waterman was granted his first pen patent in 1884, for the three-fissure feed that finally made these things practical. Sheaffer patented the lever filler in 1908. Pelikan introduced differential piston technology in 1929. For sixty years the fountain pen was simply how the world wrote. Then László and György Bíró filed their ballpoint patents in 1938, began commercial production in Argentina in 1943, and Marcel Bich acquired the rights in 1945. Within a generation the market collapsed. Esterbrook — founded in 1858 in Camden, New Jersey, once the largest pen manufacturer in America — ceased operations in 1971. Kaweco's original company folded in the early 1980s. What survived that extinction event survived because it was good. So let's go through the seven.