Sailor marketed the first Japanese pocket pen in 1963, and it took Pilot about six years to copy the idea: 1969.
However, in 1966
zumba livestream Pilot had tested the
here market with an equally compact and expandable pen--the Pilot Short:
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On these pens, part of the barrel would collapse into the wide metal band. And the cap posts very securely onto the pen tail.
On the first two pictures, the pen on the far right, while being a Short model, does not expand/collapse.
As far as I have seen, these pens only implemented 14 K gold nibs.
They were phased out around 1969.
Cheers,
BT
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