Are There Any Ballpoint Or Rollerball Pens I Should Own With Historical Significance?

[Hanoi]

I want to put together a small rollerball and ballpoint collection so can you guys help? What about non-historical pens that are just very cool to have?

[pajaro]

Parker 51 click-top ballpoint. A bit uncommon. Parker 45 click-top is more common.

 

Papermate Holiday, usually two-tone are cute. Papermate Capri, Papermate lady's ballpoint, small version, clipless, of the Holiday.

[usk15]

Parker 25, 50 Falcon, 61/65

Parker Vector huge range of BP and RB

Aurora Idea, Ipsilon, TU, Style

Pelikan BP/RB

rOtring BP/RB

Lamy Safari, try to collect rare colours

Some Japanese and German BP form the 80's-90's

[Karmachanic]

Buying things because they are cool to have is the antithesis of cool. Cool can't be purchased. Cool is. Miles for instance.

[FarmBoy]

Reynolds Rocket

Nylon barrel Jotter

Papermate Holiday Pen

Fisher Space Pen

[Mongoosey]

Honestly, anything that can hold a fresh new Easyflow9000:

• rOtring
• Pelikan
• Parker
• Kaweco
• Cultpens allows you to search accordingly.

[FarmBoy]

Sheaffer Stratowriter

[Corona688]

Ballpoints and especially rollerballs aren't that old.

 

Not to mention, their internal working parts are dollar-store cheap and completely disposable. You're not using the pen someone used 30 years ago, you're using the dolled-up stick someone used 30 years ago.

[pajaro]

Ballpoints and especially rollerballs aren't that old.

 

Not to mention, their internal working parts are dollar-store cheap and completely disposable. You're not using the pen someone used 30 years ago, you're using the dolled-up stick someone used 30 years ago.

 

Well, that's your way of looking at it. You could make the same kind of judgmental statem3ent about fountain pens.

 

Some of the ballpoints have nice looks and pleasant associations for some people. There was the kid in grade school who took the clip of a Papermate Holiday and bent it out a bit. He then beat it against the edge of the desk to make music. My grandmother left me a two-tone green Holiday. Some of the old ballpoints, fountain pens and even pencils bring back memories. A dismissive remark is its own dismissal. There's transparency.

[inkstainedruth]

Well, Hanoi, if you REALLY want to collect ballpoints (although personally I can't think why) the Parker advertising Jotters with the windows in the barrel which show different text when you click them, are kinda neat. Although you'd have to fight jotteraddict62 over getting them.... (No, I don't understand him either -- but if he's willing to trade me vintage ink for every one I find, I'm more than willing to do pick up them for him if they're inexpensive enough.... )

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Corona688]

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Edited October 29, 2018 by Corona688

[Corona688]

[edit] pointless

Edited October 29, 2018 by Corona688

[challer61]

Tactile Turn Titanium (G2 AND Parker refills)

Magus MacDonald Click Pen Titanium (parker style refill)

Edison (and fountain pen can be made up as a rollerball with fountain pen ink feed)

[Greenie]

For historical significance, rather than usability, you need the Eversharp CA in the style of the Fifth Avenue as well as the Eversharp CA in the Skyline design. Both can be make to take modern refills if you want to use them, or kept as is for historical interest.

[peterg]

A Miles Biro though I doubt whether you could get any working refills for it

[FarmBoy]

Esterbrook Wordathon

[FarmBoy]

This Waterman is elegant.

[pajaro]

This Waterman is elegant.

 

Very Waterman. Elegant and marching to the beat of a different drummer.

[bogiesan]

Lamy Pico.

[BamaPen]

Reynolds, Eversharp CA (Skyline, Fifth Avenue, CA Retractable), Sheaffer Stratowriter RA-1 retractable

Biro from Argentina - late 1930s

Miles Martin from the UK - WWII era

PaperMate - first style

Parker Jotter