david i
February 26th, 2015, 10:11 AM
A happy David pen find. And, another fresh find, not material from my photo archives. Hardly a wholesale/bargain/evil-davey/found-from-bad-ebay-ad, I stretched to buy this one, found on the table of a fellow collector-dealer at the Los Angeles Pen Show, Feb 2015. It is of course Sheaffer "flat top" oversized, Celluoid, 1930s.
Its features offer some interesting insight into the role/timing of Sheaffer flat-top production, which we can explore if anyone cares to. Nothing new there, but still unfamiliar to many. But, in having to have (oooh, a scary notion) this one for my personal collection, I fear I have proved that my roles in the buy/sell of old pens and in what passes for pen academe have not let me wholly lose the frisson that stems from my hack-amateur-newbie "gotta have that one" pen-collecting heart, I paid perhaps more than I have for any other Celluloid flat-top Sheaffer in my personal collection. I worked hard with Photoshop to capture a realistic look for this pen.
Anyone care to comment what caught my eye?
http://vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_flattop_blackandpearl_superb950a.jpg
regards
David
Its features offer some interesting insight into the role/timing of Sheaffer flat-top production, which we can explore if anyone cares to. Nothing new there, but still unfamiliar to many. But, in having to have (oooh, a scary notion) this one for my personal collection, I fear I have proved that my roles in the buy/sell of old pens and in what passes for pen academe have not let me wholly lose the frisson that stems from my hack-amateur-newbie "gotta have that one" pen-collecting heart, I paid perhaps more than I have for any other Celluloid flat-top Sheaffer in my personal collection. I worked hard with Photoshop to capture a realistic look for this pen.
Anyone care to comment what caught my eye?
http://vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_flattop_blackandpearl_superb950a.jpg
regards
David