Vintage Guide


one of the best and most robust

Safety Pens

A safety pen is a fountain pen whose nib and feed retract into an ink-filled barrel reservoir. When retracted and capped, the cap’s inner surface and the pen’s internal packing act like a stopper, sealing the ink reservoir.

Safety Pen Guide

Migration Work in progress

Other Guides In Progress

Many more months of work needed to fully get all the information in my brain onto an organized and succinct guide, appreciate the support! Plan is to have a guide for each Filling Type of vintage fountain pens and slowly expand each guide with more and more datapoints and pictures.

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