Vintage Filling Mechanisms - Safeties

As I'm interested in vintage filling mechanism (but unlike Lex I'm not producing them myself ;-), I thought it will be interesting to write about this subject.

The subject is very large, but I will like to begin with safeties (which are eyedroppers of course). If any Pentracers have additional examples of safeties or related information it will be nice if you can post information or pictures if possible.

Well ……

The term safety is ambiguous since before 1920 it has been used for standard pens with screw caps (like Parker …

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