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Here is a pen that you do not see every day. A Pilot Super in the rare coral red color with Pilot's Switch filler. Quite a find.

A little known fact is that Pilot's Super Line was first introduced in 1937. These were celluloid pens similar to the "R" pens, but with a distinctive clip that would be used in the Super pens of the 50's and 60's. These early Supers are very very hard to find today. I only have four of them and haven't seen many more. After the war, and after Pilot resolved some labor issues, Pilot revised and released the new Super line of pens in the late 1950's. This was a period of a great relief for the Japanese, after going through the war and a painful period of reconstruction. For the first time, items like refrigerator's and TV's were on display in the department stores. True, very few people could afford such items, but there was at least hope in the air that things were getting better. After the 1920's era of Japanese pens, these 1950's pens are my favorites and I always seem to have one...or two ... on me.

The biggest innovation for the Pilot Super was an impressive new filling system that the Japanese called a "nokku" (pronounced "Nah - Ku"), which translates to "Switch". Just like a light switch, the coral colored switch on the end of the stainless steel cylindar may be flicked up and down.

To fill the pen:

1 remove the section unit from the barrel.

2. Open a bottel of ink and insert the nib.

3. Flick the switch down.
4. Flick the switch back up, wait a few seconds while it fills
5. Replace the Section Unit and write.

 

Below is a Collection of Pilot Supers. I include this to show the rainbow of colors that were available. The most common color by far was black.

 

 

Nib:	14K Yellow gold with a double vent system for a perfect flow.
Filling System	Pilot Switch filler. Ready to fill and write
Faults:	Not a single one
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