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Wality / Airmail 69EB Green & Brown Ebonite Handmade Fountain Pen Eyedropper New

$ 12.14

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

Airmail / Wality are Indian manufacturers of quality Fountain Pens. The pens are eye droppers, have huge ink capacity and writes extremely smooth. Each pen is tested and marked for sale. Lightweight pen with 19 grams weight only . A very good quality pen to add in ur collection .
Presenting the 69EB (
EB - EBONITE
)
Each pen is handmade from a block, its drilled in a lathe machine and then smoothened by hand. The feeder and nib is set and then tested before going for sale.
A lightweight, full sized fountain pen made from authentic Indian Ebonite, hand polished to a glossy finish.  Airmail make these pens exactly the same way they always have and this is exactly like the fountain pen you would have bought back in the 50s or 60s. The first fountain pens were eyedroppers like this one and Ebonite was the most common material used to make fountain pens until the late 60s when plastics began to take over. Ebonite is a wonderful material for a fountain pen and today it's generally only used on very expensive pens.
Ebonite is a very hard, inflexible version of rubber invented by  Charles Goodyear in 1839. It's made from natural rubber and sulphur, treated  with heat in a process known as vulcanisation. Ebonite is durable, chemically  stable, machinable, mouldable, polishes to a natural high gloss and is an  excellent electrical insulator. It's name comes from the natural wood Ebony  which it closely resembles. Ebonite was used in just about every aspect  of life from the 1800s to the 1960s .
Eyedropper pens get their name from the way  you fill the pen with ink - with an eyedropper. These are the original and  simplest type of fountain pens. They have no internal filling mechanism and do  not need ink cartridges or convertors. The barrel of the pen acts as the ink  reservoir. Most modern fountain pens use an ink cartridge which  contains between 0.5 and 0.75ml of ink. Convertors and Aeromatic fillers hold  about the same. Eyedropper pens usually hold between 2 - 3ml, almost 4 - 6 times  more ink. To fill an eyedropper pen you simply unscrew the section (hand  grip) from the barrel, hold the barrel upright and fill it with ink using an eyedropper or syringe. It goes without saying to keep the barrel upright  while you screw the section back on. Keeping the threads clean and the  application of a little silicon grease prevents leaking.
Pen with Jumbo Ink Capacity (approximately 2.6ml)
Manufacturer
Airmail Co Ltd
Brand    -     Wality
Origin Country
India
Model Name
69A
Pen Type
Fountain Pen
Pen Material
Ebonite
Nib Type
Gold plated steel. Iridium tip.
Tipping
Iridium
Nib Width
F (Fine,writes in between a wester F&M)
Body Colour
Brown & green rippled
Cap Type
Screw Type
Filling Mechanism
Eyedropper
Trims
Chrome
Feed material
ebonite
Pen Size
Large
Pen Length Capped
147 mm
Pen Length Posted
166 mm
Average Barrel Dia
12 mm
Average Section Dia
10 mm
Average Cap Dia
15 mm
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