This button-filler pen appears to be a Danish Montblanc Simplo No. 2 with the bandless, tapered “flat top” cap. The production run for that model of pen was from 1937 to 1946. The clip on this pen is somewhat different READ MORE
This is a Matador Express 814 – a German pen made in the 1940’s. A short history of Matador can be found here. I didn’t take any shots of the pen before I started cleaning it up. This is the READ MORE
Occasionally, I repair a piston filler pen that needs a new cork gasket (like this oneand this one). One place to find cork is at the top of a wine bottle. However, normally, when you use a corkscrew to get READ MORE
The Parker T-1 (T for Titanium) is possibly the last pen made that was intended to be a usable pen, but wound up being a collector’s item (in contrast to pens that are made to be collector’s items but never READ MORE