The Ohto Gripper is a classic, highly collectible double-knock mechanical pencil from the 1980s, but it was also sold as a ballpoint pen.
Ohto Gripper Ballpoint Pen
Kaweco Sport Ballpoint Pen
Kaweco Classic Sport Ballpoint is a retractable, pocket-able pen with a plastic body. It’s often confused with the Classic Sport Gel Roller Pen, but the ballpoint is retractable with a click button on the top, while the rollerball is capped (similar to the fountain pen).
Skilcraft B3 Aviator Multi-function Pen
The Skilcraft B3 Aviator is a 2+1 multi-pen that features a black pen, a red pen, and a mechanical pencil. The pen is made in the USA, like all Skilcraft pens, and is designed for use in and around aircraft.
Kokuyo Mistral Ballpoint Pen
Kokuyo Mistral is a side-knock ballpoint pen, which is to say that it retracts and extends the tip of the pen by flexing at the middle. The pen has a retail price of 1000 JPY and is sold in Japan. It’s a simple, small pen with limited embellishments and features.
Rotring Trio Multi-pen
The Rotring Trio is a slick, modern multi-pen that is the predecessor to the Newton Trio (the pen often misidentified as the Rotring 600 Trio). It’s also a modern take on the rare, expensive Rotring Quattro Executive. The good news is that the Rotring Trio is neither rare — it’s easily findable online for sale — nor is it expensive, with a retail price of about $30.
Tec Accessories Ko-Axis Rail Pen
The Ko-Axis Rail is a small, EDC-friendly machine pen. It has a flat “bookmark shape” that is meant to be easily pocketable or thrown in any bag, kit, car, or purse. The pen has a rugged build that uses titanium or aluminum, based on the model, to keep the weight down.
Pentel Smash Ballpoint
The Pental Smash B1000 ballpoint, is the pen counterpart to the much more popular Pentel Smash mechanical pencil. The pen is quite hard to find and often is sold for over $40, despite having a retail price of just 1000 JPY.
Lamy M21 Ballpoint Refill
Schmidt EasyFlow 6000 Hybrid Refill
The EasyFlow 6000 is the D1 standard equivalent of the popular EasyFlow 9000, a Parker style G2 style refill. The EasyFlow 6000 uses the same hybrid ink that has made the 9000 so popular, but it’s delivered in a smaller package. The refill follows the ISO 12757 standard for pen refill sizing.
Zebra EK-0.7 Surari Emulsion Ink Multi-pen Refill
The EK refill is one of Zebra’s Emulsion ink refills, specifically one designed for multi-pens.
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Kaweco Soul D1 Ballpoint Pen Refill
The Kaweco Soul is a traditional oil-based ballpoint refill in a D1 standard size.
Zebra 4C Refill
The Zebra 4C is a family of D1 sized refills.
Lamy Spirit Ballpoint
The Lamy Spirit is an ultra-slim, high-design ballpoint pen and mechanical pencil first released in 1994. The pen is know for it’s slim profile and “pierced” grip design, which brings a machine age design to Lamy that is a major departure from most of their pens.
The most notable detail about the Spirit is that the pen’s major components (grip, clip, and body) were made from just a single piece of stainless steel using a automated steps. This example of innovation and efficiency (both in terms of design and materials) made the Spirit one of Lamy’s most important writings interments of the 1990s.
Dyson Biro
The Dyson Biro is a rare ballpoint that was never sold at retail or available in the United States. This promotional item was available in the United Kingdom (where Dyson is based) for some time, mainly through Dyson giveaways and handouts to partners. The pen has an all-metal body and telescopic design that is often compared to the Lamy Unic.
Rotring Newton Trio
The Newton Trio was the multi-pen design sold in the Rotring Newton family. It’s often confused with the Rotring 600 Trio, which is a similar but not exactly the same pen.