Filling System
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Penol Ambassador #5
Penol’s top-of-the-line pen was the Ambassador series, which started production in 1942. The third series in the line was started around October of 1946 and lasted less than a year....
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The Avondale
This was the first pen I’ve made using cumberland ebonite, so I decided to make it a little homage to the Waterman 7. The curves on the cap are more...
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Sheaffer’s Crest Deluxe 1500 / 600 set
This is a Crest Deluxe 1500 vacuum filler fountain pen with a 500 mechanical pencil made by Sheaffer in the early-to-mid 1940s. The barrels of both are brown striated with...
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Waterman 0552 1/2 L.E.C.
I’m quite certain that this pen has an interesting history that I’ll never learn. The model number gives us lots of information about it already: 0: gold filled5: full overlay5:...
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Geha Gold Wing 735
The Geha Company was started in Hannover, Germany in 1918 by two brothers, Heinrich and Conrad Hartmann. (The company name is a shortened form of Gebrüder Hartmann, or Hartmann Brothers). The company, which...
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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...
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The Barachois
This is my first attempt at making a “self filling” pen in the style of vintage pens. This one is a button-filler, which uses a latex sac shellacked to the...
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The Petley
This pen was made for a friend, primarily to be used as a signing pen. It’s made of desert ironwood, with bands of mammoth tusk, brass, and and ebonite section...
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Montblanc 146
The Montblanc 146 is one of the icons in the world of fountain pens, with a long history running from a start of production in 1950 through to the present...
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Orion 474 / Montblanc hybrid
I bought this pen on an auction in Sweden, taking a gamble that it was a Montblanc #2 Safety pen from the early 1900’s. Once it arrived, I could easily...