Fountain pens: How the East and West signed up to a lucrative deal

The 1920s deal between Ryosuke Namiki and Alfred Dunhill to make luxury pens for the Western market created some of the most collectable fountain pens.

At a time when mechanisation and plastics were making pens cheaper, the pair hit on the idea of cr…

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