Next month, in celebration of Parker’s 130th anniversary, a new Duofold pen is making its debut, commemorating founder George S. Parker’s travels around the globe. The Duofold “The Craft of Travelling ...

After our paean to Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electrical vehicle last week, this Friday offers not another ridiculed invention of the 1980s, but a true timeless classic: the venerable, humble, and ...

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George S Parker filed his first patent in 1889. He established the Parker Pen Company to manufacturer a superior writing instrument. By the 1920s the Parker pen was established as the leading ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: November 1st, 1863, 152 years ago today ... a day to write home about. For that was the day the future fountain pen magnate George S. Parker was born ...