Piston
15 items in stock, $125 to $4,999.99.
What “Piston” means here
A knob at the tail drives a piston down the barrel; Pelikan made it standard in 1929 and Montblanc, Aurora and Omas followed. The Montblanc 644's telescoping piston "still works smoothly! Talk about remarkable German engineering" (SKU 6967). He no longer restores "European, Nozac and Sheaffer piston fillers" (pen-repairs page).
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