Filling Mechanism: Other

Keep your pens safe with this proven winner: a nicely broken in grey leather pouch. It hold two pens and shows only minor wear from use. Fits in most pockets and bags. Can hold most oversized pens. 16cm long by 7cm wide.

Protect your pens with a proven winner. This warm, well-worn red leather pouch can hold up to 3 of your pens safely. You can see a little ink stain on it, but the rest of the pouch is perfectly fine and nicely broken in. Measures 16cm long and 7.5cm wide.

Dress up the counter of your small business or a desk in your guest bedroom with this Esterbrook Dipless pen. Technically, it is a dip pen that rests in an ink-filled holder. Given the inkfeed on the extra-fine steel nib, the pen "dips less" because it holds more ink on a dip than many other pens. The desk base is shipped empty. You can refill it easily buy removing the top, black pen holder from the glass well. As it is an Esterbrook, you can unscrew the slightly scratchy nib for a smoother Esterbrook or "Venus" nib. A great, and functional, conversation piece. Click the headline for close-ups.

Pelikan first developed the Pelikan Graphos system for technical drawing in the 1930s. This appears to be one of those sets from before the war, although we aren't certain. In theory this pen fills with ink, but we aren't sure how or if this one does. It is a large boxed set with what appear to be 4 nibs that are missing. There are 3 widgets of some sort to the right of the pen in the box, and one of them is potentially missing...unless it is installed in the pen and we are too ignorant to know. Click the headline for a better look, and for a look at the top of the slightly beat up original case/box.

Classy, elegant, sophisticated. Dip pen fans will love this sterling silver repousse antique pen. We suspect it comes from around the turn of the 20th century. It could be older. The holder is marked "Sterling," but there is no formal branding. Ergo, we don't know who made it. There are a couple little marks on the pen, and one of the silver edges where the nib goes in has split just a teeny-tiny amount. We included a "new" Esterbrook Bronze Falcon 048 nib, which is NOS. You will write a firm, smooth line from extra-fine to about 1mm. This is semi-flex and far from a wet noodle. Click the headline for close-ups. Yes, our cat is holding the pen down for a nib close-up, and, no, he is not for sale with the pen. 18.5cm.

Pelikan Level fountain pens created the first new filling system in fountain pens in decades. We don't even know the name of the filling system. The concept was that the tail of the pen locked into a specially made inkwell, then you filled the pen. Unfortunately, we don't have the special inkwell that this pen needs. However, we do have the matching .5mm pencil. The pencil works well. The pen's steel nib writes a fine line with some feedback. Neither writing instrument has very much wear, just a little. However, there are some deep scratches on the section grip of the pen. Click the headline for close-ups.