What are the largest piston fill fountain pens you know of?

[Dace]

Ignoring price point what are the largest fountain pens you know of?  I know the MB 149 and the Pelikan M1000 are considered large. I know there is also the Delta Dolce Vida Oversize Just curious what is out there.

[da vinci]

I think CONID made a model called Giraffe for a while. That was pretty big..! GvFC pen of the year is also pretty big. 

[SpecTP]

the conid bulkfiller is 6ml of capacity. I don't have the giraffe, but I think its ink chamber is about 100mm of length, so around ~8ml?

[USG]

10 hours ago, Dace said:

Ignoring price point what are the largest fountain pens you know of?  I know the MB 149 and the Pelikan M1000 are considered large. I know there is also the Delta Dolce Vida Oversize Just curious what is out there.

 

+1 on the Pelikan M1000 👍

[jchch1950]

33 minutes ago, USG said:

 

+1 on the Pelikan M1000 👍

+1 it is one of the most oversized pens with excellent quality. The MB 149 is also a big piston-filled pen. The Namiki Emperor is a big pen but it is eyedroper filling.

[Tashi_Tsering]

Omas 360 (piston) is pretty big. Photo next to MB149

[Tashi_Tsering]

Also Montegrappa Amerigo Vespucci. But it’s not true piston, it’s something like captive converter

[Tashi_Tsering]

And Graf von Faber-Castell Pen of the Year 2008

[txomsy]

OK; so there are others... er... well... there have been others, I mean. If one goes back in time, vintage, there are plenty of large piston fillers, specially from the golden age, when many companies tried to imitate the flagships of the moment. For instance, to name one (but there were many others):

 

 

[Karmachanic]

Omas Paragon

[antares1966]

Sailor King of Pen Realo may be in the running also

[Karmachanic]

39 minutes ago, antares1966 said:

Sailor King of Pen Realo may be in the running also

 

Might be difficult finding one of the 600 that were made.

[kazoolaw]

Somewhere there is an OS Montegrappa, semi-vintage.

[Waltz For Zizi]

Santini Italia Giant

 

[Runnin_Ute]

If looking for capacity, the vintage Pelikan 400NN while physically smaller than the M1000, has a much larger (2 ml) ink capacity. The M1000 is only 1.35 ml.

[wspohn]

If you want large ink volume then piston fillers aren't the pinnacle of performance -eye dropper pens are.   Look at Danitrio.

[inkstainedruth]

On 8/5/2023 at 9:35 PM, Runnin_Ute said:

If looking for capacity, the vintage Pelikan 400NN while physically smaller than the M1000, has a much larger (2 ml) ink capacity. The M1000 is only 1.35 ml.

That's very interesting.  But not surprising -- I've been told that the insides of all (modern at least) Pelikan pens are the same size, and take the same size piston assemblies; it's only the outer shell of the pens that are bigger.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[VacNut]

On 8/22/2023 at 1:29 PM, wspohn said:

If you want large ink volume then piston fillers aren't the pinnacle of performance -eye dropper pens are.   Look at Danitrio.

Good question. Is it about ink capacity or just size? The Italians made pens that put the Parker Giant and Waterman 20 to shame.

[Waltz For Zizi]

I just love how posts always evolve like this. It happened to me many many many times. You put a question and then the internet comes with different responses overthinking what you said. I guess that's why there are so many interpretations of the bible to the point that there are literally more christian denominations than there are verses in the bible.

If it was about pure size or size and capacity or pure capacity he would have said so, but he clearly stated the he wants the biggest pen with a piston fill, no mention of capacity.