Blogs about Fountain Pens are good places to get some information.  This article by a  blogger on the subject is pretty good.

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Alberta_Glamerheim]Alberta Glamerheim

The manufacturers of fountain pens apparently have not seen such an increase in sales since the year Lewis Waterman made the 3 key inventions that allowed the mass-production of quality writing instruments. With ballpoint and rollerball pens reported to be killing the market for fountain pens and with technology, represented by email and cell-phones,  expected to greatly reduce handwriting as an activity…  something totally unexpected happened – and changed
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