Lever Filler
40 items in stock, $29.99 to $1,499.99.
What “Lever Filler” means here
The lever on the barrel presses a bar against a rubber sac; release it and the sac draws ink. Sheaffer patented it in 1908 and most American pens from the 1910s to the 1950s use it. The sac hardens with age and needs replacing: a resac, the repair he does most. On his repair list.
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