Pilot Capless Black Stripes (F)

Special Edition Pilot Capless from 1971. This is the pen that sparked a new age of design for Pilot in the 1970s and pushed it to the forefront of Japanese pen makers.

Tokyo Station Pens has a whole blog post about hunting down this pen. He eventually got one that needed to be repaired, from the head of the Wagner Club, a fountain pen club in Japan.

Well, I have a minty pen you can try.

This pen is delicate and cannot be repaired--parts for it are no longer available. Regretably I will only be able to lend it to members with a long track record.