Waterman – Sleeve Filler

Description

Most collectors put vintage Watermans into two basic categories, eyedropper fillers and lever fillers. In fact, Waterman used no less than four different types of self-filling mechanisms prior to adopting the lever-filler in 1915 (not 1913, as some sources mistakenly state).

All four mechanisms are rare and of considerable historical and technical interest. The first, a syringe-filler using a piston attached to a long shaft hidden under a long, tapered blind cap, dates to the early 1890s, with the few surviving examples datable to c. 1895.