#Sheaffer

[wombatqofdoom]

First fountain pen and most recent. 37 years apart. Same company (sheaffer), same ink cartridge. Same middling handwriting.

[aethergin]

Some pages from my passport sized notebook. It's a mix of my photos with washi tapes, my own carved stamps and found items like napkins and old index stickers..

[goldenstorm0]

NEW PEN

oh god she is so stabby yes I am being cringe and her name is Yor i also got a pilot eyedropper that i havent taken pics of yet Yes I did go and poke people with it the second I took it out of the packaging

[vintagepromotions]

Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pen advertisement (1953).

[syncallio]

More Lady Sheaffers!

This time two beautiful fountain/ballpoint sets. The silver pair in the box are 642s. The gold pair are 630s, as can be seen by their stickers.

$15 for a gold nibbed fountain pen! And here's a nice closeup of the "Florentine" band:

As for the 630s, it looks like the pen was filled exactly once. There were two packets of half-dried-up cartridges lurking under the display card thingy, with one packet missing a cartridge. Otherwise all of these are in excellent shape.

Doesn't that look luscious! A real 1970s jewel.

FYI vintage Sheaffer ballpoints are compatible with modern Sheaffer K refills. And the click action on these is delightful. You press the open end of the clip to extend the point, then press the back of the clip to retract it.

[penhero]

The six Kraker fountain pens shown in this gallery article were photographed for a series of two articles that appeared in the spring and fall issues of the Pennant magazine in 2020, “The Beginning of the Kraker Pen Company” and “The Kraker Pen Company, Part II: Growth, Good Times, and Closure,” both by Nathaniel Harter. If you’re not a member of Pen Collectors of America, you’re missing out on a lot of great stories about writing instruments and the people and companies who made them.

Read the story about these interesting pens here!

[misforgotten2]

Pens: What older people give younger people.™

Reader's Digest - November 1972

[peafowlcreative]

Sheaffer Snorkel Masterpiece

The Sheaffer Snorkel was sold by the Sheaffer Pen Company from 1952-1959, and premiered a unique 'no mess' filling mechanism. Sheaffer took the earlier "Touchdown" filling system and integrated a "snorkel" tube that extends from the feed when filling the pen. This system was designed to remove the need to dip the nib and feed into the ink at any point. The Touchdown piston, when pressed, creates an increased air pressure inside the body of the pen. This contracts the latex ink sac instead of needing to use a lever like earlier fountain pens. The Snorkel system was used on one other model range from Sheaffer, the "Pen For Men" aka PFM from the early 1960s.

The Snorkel was produced in 13 different sub-models (14 if you count the "demonstrator", which was a Valiant in clear plastic), each sub-model featuring a different combination of nib, trim, and body material. The plastic models came in a wide variety of colors, though not all sub-models and colors were produced for the entire 8-years of the Snorkel's run. "Masterpiece" was the designation used by Sheaffer for their top-of-the-line solid-gold pens. The Snorkel Masterpiece came in a few different finishes and karat, including 9kt, 14kt, and 18kt. This particular example is the most common finish, 14kt gold in sets of alternating 3 and 1 lines. It's also likely an earlier model, since it features a "Lifetime" marked nib.

[stone-cold-groove]

Now there’s a Sheaffer for guys ’n dolls.

[locked-keye]

Sheaffer brand Triumph (top) & Premier (bottom) fountain pens.

[penchantment]

[racc1408]

Sheaffer 100 Coffee Edition Maty Brown with Regal Brown PVD Trims Roller.

[trevorbiasotti]

Pierre Sheaffer

[daftpatience]

the gang's all here for refill day

[syncallio]

Another Lady Sheaffer! This one's from the 70s.

Look at that finish! I think it must've sat in a drawer for fifty years because there's not a scratch on it. And the gold zig zag pattern is just so lush!

The 70s models have a few big changes: the nib is inset instead of conical, there's a clip on the cap, and it's long enough to accept a converter so you can use bottled ink.

Also they quit naming them after fabric and just used numbers.

The important things stayed the same: they still write as good as they look, and they look FABULOUS.

[penhero]

As with the earliest Lady Sheaffer’s from 1958–1966, Sheaffer made a small number of uncatalogued versions of the 1968–1971 pens. Were these production, prototype, or short-run models? The fit and finish on them suggests they may have been special order pens but lacking any Sheaffer catalogs or price lists from that period, there’s no way to be certain. There are three known uncatalogued Lady Sheaffer models from this period. It is possible there are more. Each follows the design of the 1966-1968 Stylist, with a long, slender, tapered shape, and a long spring loaded clip.

Read the article about these interesting pens here: