Thank you for sharing @KansatsuInu. I love brushed finish on the third one from the left.
I love the ‘compact’ genre of pens, be they FP or BP. I wonder if there is documentation for the first / earliest makers of this format?
A long while back there was a discussions about this (on the Fountain Pen Network), the pocket style pen with long cap and short body. It was all in the context of fountain pens. From what I recall, it was considered that PILOT was the first to bring it to mainstream high volume production around 1970 [edit: 1968]. They may not have been the first. It’s possible that Morison might’ve done it first. But Morison didn’t go high volume on it. It’s hard to find any examples these days.
As PILOT really got into it, Platinum soon followed. I don’t know when they started introducing the ballpoints after the fountain pens. Examples from both brands are abundantly available in fountain pen configuration as so much inventory was produced.
Honestly surprising that those came later than the Capless.
Capless history:
PILOT short pocket pen: