NOS Vintage Rare 1980s Reform No. 966 Rollerball / Fineliner Capped Pen With Black,, Blue, Green or Red Captop and new Refill
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NOS Vintage Rare 1980s Reform No. 966 Rollerball / Fineliner Capped Pen With Black, Blue, Green or Red Captop and new Refill Item ID: REF-082

Availability: Only 25 available

Regular Price: $54.99

Special Price $49.99

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Reform 966 Rollerball  

Manufacturer/Model: Reform Germany/966
Year of production: late 1970's & 1980s
Filling system: Standard European Size Format "Eurosize" Rollerball or Fineliner Refill; New Schneider 0.5mm Blue, Red, Green and Black Rollerball Refill Included with each pen
Material: All Black high shine & gloss plastic resin, refill color matching captop
Length (pen closed): 134mm; Posted 150mm

Condition and information:
Offered here is a rare Reform rollerball pen, No. 966. These started production in the late 1970s and went throughout the late 1980s. These 966s usually came in pen sets with fountain, ballpoint or pencils, but they could be bought individually at Reform or other specialty pen stores, and customers could choose between black, red, blue or green captop to be installed on the pen. This was very important and convenient as they could, easily tell which color refill they have inside each pen if they had multiple such pens.
 
It originally came with either a Euro Standard Reform fineliner refill or a rollerball refill. The Eurosize standard rollerball refills were standardized in the late 1970s and became very popular in the 1980s and still are today as the writing is much much smoother than with a ballpoint pen. The basic difference between rollerball and ballpoint is that the first uses a water based ink where viscosity is very low and the ink flow is very high, hence no pressure is needed to be applied on the pen/paper for it to write, it just glides on the paper and produces a line nearly effortlessly, as opposed to the latter which uses an oil based ink and needs more pressure to produce a line. Rollerball refills also feature a bigger "rolling" steel ball (bearing) at the tip as opposed to a ballpoint refills which feature a smaller ball at the tip of the refill. Those two differences make rollerball writing stronger in color, with sharper and clearer lines as it places much more ink on the paper than a ballpoint produced writing which can often be a bit opaque and requires more pressure. That is why rollerball refills are much bigger than ballpoint refills in size and thus ink capacity.
 
The pen as all Reform pens is high quality, extremely ergonomic, beautiful and elegant form factor, with decades of Reform's pen making knowhow instilled in it. Sits just right in the hand, and when posted it can feel as writing with a fountain pen. It is a larger pen, close to 150mm when posted, so it provides a nice balance. When closed, it is nearly identical in form and size as the Reform 4328 and the 6488 fountain pens on which it is based and was usually sold in a set with those fountain pens and other Reform fountain pens from that era. It has a high gloss high grade plastic body and cap. There is a small soft spring coil inside which also fits on the new Eurosize rollerball refill, which helps dampen the refill inside, so when the tip is touched to the paper, it does not feel stiff, rather it acts like a suspension and softens the writing experience. Overall a great daily writer, very convenient, reliable, easy to use and beautiful to look at with that timeless 1980s style and fountain pen form factor.
The pen is in NOS New Old Stock never used condition, a Reform time capsule.

*NOTE: The listing is for 1 pen. When you place an order, send us an email and let us know which color captop you want the pen to feature. The default captop is black. If you order more than 1 pens, let us know which combination of captop colors you want. Each pen will be fitted with a new Schneider Made in Germany rollerball refill.  matching the captop color. The Eurosize standard rollerball or fineliner refills are readily available in any office supplies store and produced by majority of the European pen manufacturers to this day.  
Warranty

This item is covered by our 1 Year Full International Warranty at no additional cost. The terms of our Warranty are very simple, meant to give you a secure and trouble-free buying experience.

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