Filling Mechanism: Lever Filler

New Old Stock, kinda in the box! We aren't sure who made this very attractive ringtop fountain pen, but it was well made and remains impeccably perfect, aside from a little fading of the orange top decoration. Nice, clear chasing! No company name in either the box, instructions or on the pen. The box is deteriorating rapidly. We restored the pen with a new ink sac. Its 14k gold nib is marked #3 Warranted. It needs breaking in, but it writes a nice, firm fine line with a little feedback. A great vintage pen, even if no maker formally claimed it. 11.2cm capped.

Snaz up any desk with classic 1950s style using our Esterbrook Desk Pen. Like a sharply cut tuxedo, this black-and-chrome fountain set is fully restored with a new ink sac. This vintage pen shows some light wear but is in pretty good shape overall. The base is a nice paperweight, but it is not to be confused with an inkwell. The base does NOT hold ink. Write a very nice extra-fine line with just a light amount of feedback. Click the headline for a close-up. 17.5cm.

Esterbrook fountain pens were THE pen of the 1950s. Handsome, affordable and--best of all--customizable. The nibs unscrew and are replaceable with more than 3 dozen point sizes. We restored this Esterbrook J-model fountain pen with a new ink sac. The pen shows some wear, but there are no cracks or egregious damage. It comes with a base-level steel 1554 nib. It is a very scratchy extra fine. This is a good starter pen for collecting and using all of the nib sizes, which are fun to hunt down and still findable in "the wild." Click the headline for close-ups. The J-model is the widest barreled of the Esterbrooks of this era. 12.8cm capped.

If you are thinking that this price is too good to be true for an oversized Sheaffer Balance Lifetime, you'd be right. There's about a 1-inch crack on the bottom tail side of this vintage pen. However, given how durable these pens are, that doesn't mean this can't still be a great knock-around daily driver. We restored the pen with a new ink sac. You will write an extra-fine line with its 14k gold nib. Click the headline for close-ups. As so many XF nibs do, this one has some feedback. 14.6cm capped.

Conklin was a little slow to switch from their famous Crescent fillers to lever-fillers, but the more modern fillers worked great. We just restored this Conklin No. 26 with a new ink sac. It is a nice large pen but not oversized. The grip is probably closer to a Pelikan 400. The black-hard-rubber (ebonite) has some chocolate hazing. The chasing is fainter on the barrel than the cap. Minimal brassing on the gold-filled trim and some light wear marks on the cap and barrel. No cracks. Most people will love it for its FLEXI 14k gold nib. It is not a wet noodle, but it flexes from a fine-medium to a shade more than 1mm. The imprint is legible but faded. 13.6cm capped.

Fountain pens don't get much more basic than Wearever. Wearever fountain pens were dime-store pens that were extremely cheaply made but still functional. This Wearever pen might look black on your screens, but it is really a deep navy blue. We restored this vintage pen with a new ink sac. You will write a surprisingly smooth medium line with its steel nib. Surprising for a steel nib of this era. The pen has a little bit of a banana shape and shows wear from use. Click the headline for close-ups. 13.8cm capped.

Can you spot what makes this Esterbrook Dollar Pen so special? Need to click the headline for a close-up? Need a clue? Look more closely at the bottom of the cap. 3 incised cap bands! This is one of the rarer features to be found on an Esterbrook Dollar Pen. We restored this vintage pen with a new ink sac, and it is in great working order. The cap is crack-free with minimal wear. Unfortunately, there's a scar the wraps a quarter of the way around the barrel between the threads and lever. You can see it in the photo. Unlike most 1551 nibs, we find this one to be an insanely smooth, wet medium writer. The pen itself is the long-skinny version of the pen. Were it the J-series, it would be an LJ, but we aren't sure of the Dollar Pen designation. 12.1cm capped.

As Esterbrook switched from Dollar Pens to the J-model line, they ran out of Dollar Pen caps to match with the Dollar Pen barrels. For a brief while, they married the new supply of J-pen caps to the Dollar barrels. This is one of those pens known as an Esterbrook Transition pen. It is SJ sized in the world of J-series pens, the shorter, skinnier model. We restored this vintage pen with a new ink sac. You'll find a little wear and a couple bite marks on the pen. No cracks. Some people actually like scratchy nibs, and they will love this scratchy extra-fine 2556 nib. If you aren't a fan of scratchy nibs, the beauty of these pens is that the nibs unscrew easily for replacement with smoother tips. 11.6cm capped.