Filling System
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The Avondale
I spent part of my summer vacation making this as a birthday gift for a friend. It’s made of Cumberland ebonite with a roll stop make of mammoth tusk.
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Conklin 75
In 1898, Roy Conklin founded The Conklin Pen Company in Toledo, Ohio. One of their notable contributions to fountain pen “technology” was the crescent filling mechanism, where a crescent-shaped bar...
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Parker 51
This 51 Vacumatic Mk 1 was made in Canada in 1946-47. The barrel is stamped with a 6, but as can be seen in the photos below, the nib was...
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Parker Duofold
This “blue pearl” 3rd generation Parker Vacumatic Duofold was made in Canada in the last quarter of 1946. V2025004
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Eversharp Doric Airliner(2nd Generation)
Production of the 2nd Generation Doric started in 1936. This one, in the “silver green shell” colour, is a vacuum filler with an adjustable flex nib and a “working” shutoff...
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Pelikan 100N
V2025005
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Europa safety pen
I haven’t found much about the Italian Europa brand apart from what can be read on this page. V2025003
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Burnham Matador No. 77
These pens are a bit of a mystery to me. The clips on the caps tell me that these are Burnham pens, but the model imprinted on the barrels say...
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Parker Mixy
The Parker Mixy was designed to be a “school” pen and was released to the market in 1979 in France and phased out there only 2 years later. However, production...
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Penol 3K
In the mid-1930s, Penol introduced two faceted models, the 8K (for “kanter”, the Danish word for “edges”) and the smaller 3K. In 1937, the 3K was updated to have a...