Lever mechanism fillers

[Chrissy]

I don't think it's true that lever filling pens are completely out of production.
Some brand new pens are still made as lever fillers: I believe Esterbrook & Conklin are made as lever fillers.
You could still find brand new, modern Conway Stewart lever fillers around and although I don't think they are currently in production, they wouldn't be described as old or vintage.
I'm sure others will come up.

[Kaputnik]

I don't think it's true that lever filling pens are completely out of production.
Some brand new pens are still made as lever fillers: I believe Esterbrook & Conklin are made as lever fillers.

Is that actually the case? I can't find any of the modern "Esterbrooks" that have lever mechanisms, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Of course, most of the vintage ones do. And the modern Conklins have the old crescent filling mechanism, which compresses the sac a bit differently. But again, maybe there's some model I've overlooked.

You could still find brand new, modern Conway Stewart lever fillers around and although I don't think they are currently in production, they wouldn't be described as old or vintage.
I'm sure others will come up.

I'd forgotten about those. My one Conway Stewart is a vintage one from, I believe, the 1950s.

On the original question, I use vintage lever fillers fairly often, such as the Eversharp Skyline that I have inked now. It's not really the filling mechanism that's the selling point, though, it's the vintage nibs, materials, and styling. For modern pens, I'm partial to piston fillers. I suspect that the pen makers don't see much demand for lever mechanisms, and wouldn't care to gear up to make them again.