2 NEW SKILCRAFT PENS *US GOVERNMENT* MODEL YOU ARE BUYING YOUR CHOICE OF 2 PENS. YOU CAN CHOSE FROM THIS LIST: - 2 BLACK PENS.. or - 2 BLUE PENS.... or - 1 BLUE, 1 BLACK PEN. THESE ARE IN MINT CONDITION, CAMERA MAKES THEM APPEAR DUSTY. YOU WILL GET A BLACK A BLUE PEN IN NEW CONDITION. HIGH QUALITY MADE IN THE USA. NICEST BALL POINT PEN, I USE THESE MYSELF! RETRACTABLE REFILLABLE SHOULD YOU EVER RUN OUT OF INK. INK DOES NOT SMEAR. INK CARTRIDGE IS BRASS MADE TO LAST LONGER. TUNGSTEN-CARBIDE BALL FOR VERY NICE SMOOTH EVEN WRITING. THIS PEN CAN WRITE OVER 5000 FEET!! YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED. WE SHIP VERY FAST!! Shipping is automatically combined for multiple items, so you do not pay extra shipping cost. You pay exact shipping cost. We do not make money on shipping. For more than 40 years, standard black pens have cluttered the desks of thousands of federal employees, hung on a chain at post offices across the country and slipped into the pockets of countless military personnel. Yet few have realized that this government-issue pen has a history to rival that of any monument. Blind workers assemble the pens in factories in Wisconsin and North Carolina under the brand name Skilcraft as part of a 72-year-old legislative mandate. The original 16-page specifications for the pen are still in force: It must be able to write continuously for a mile and in temperatures up to 160 degrees and down to 40 degrees below zero. It has been used in war zones and gas stations, and was designed to fit undetected into U.S. military uniforms. According to company lore, the pen can stand in for a two-inch fuse and comes in handy during emergency tracheotomies. "It's the Coca-Cola of ink pens," said Richard Oliver, operations manager at Industries of the Blind in North Carolina. "Everybody recognizes this pen." The unassuming pen stamped with the words "SKILCRAFT U.S. GOVERNMENT" in white letters has endured despite quantum leaps in communications technology that have rendered lesser tools obsolete. Taking over from the fountain pen, it has withstood the advent of the rubberized "comfort grip" and the freely flowing gel ink, not to mention computers, instant messages and smartphones. The U.S. Postal Service alone orders 700,000 a year.