david i
August 8th, 2013, 05:33 AM
Hi,
I've collected vintage Sheaffer pens (mostly pre-1965) since starting with our hobby back in 1998. Over the years quite a number of gem pens (both regarding condition and cachet/rarity) have ended up in the ol' collection.
I have a number of foci within the brand and having turned my interest (and arguable skill) to Sheaffer's 1930's Balance -- in no small part because I pretty well exhausted the pool of exotica in my prime collecting focus, Parker's Vacumatic, and because Balance offers similar niche challenges-- I've put together what might be the worlds heftiest collection of Sheaffer Balance with off-catalogue cap-band patters, though perhaps my friend Pat has still more. We are overdue for another collection comparison.
At the Washington DC Supershow (pen show) this weekend, I will have in tow the core of my off-catalogue cap-band Balance collection, the advanced stuff, with 40+ pens with (instead of the catalogued smooth single cap-band) double, triple and fish-scale cap-bands.
Additionally, as the proud owner of what appears to be the only known actual private jeweler's catalog that shows some of the off-catalogue cap-band pens that collectors long have known as "Jeweler's cap-band" pens, I will have that remarkable document with me to show to those who like that sort.
And, yes, there is more. For the first time I have collated my somewhat accidentally (or is that "incidentally") acquired collection of solid gold Sheaffer pens, ranging from a a poppin' flat-top from 1920's in hand-engraved-vine pattern, to three Sheaffer Balance (yes, Balance was done as "Masterpiece" in solid gold) including the only known "In Your Honor" set as well as an off-catalogue pattern piece, to a range of 1940's pens, a 1950 TM Touchdown, Snorkel (both USA 14k and English barley-pattern 9k) to an 1960's Imperial Masterpiece and one of only a couple known solid 9-k English Sheaffer PFM's.
Oh yeah, I'm also bringing the (eep!) World's Largest Collection of orange flat-top celluloid Sheaffers including many off-catalogue variants, one of the heftiest collections out there of cherry-celluloid Sheaffer flat-tops and the only Sheaffer sub-brand streamlined Univer I've ever seen.
Oh, and the best condition Chilton Wingflow all gold-filled set and a Parker Vacumatic Imperial Coronet.
And, my "world's greatest collection" of Parker Vacumatic with Vacumatic cap-band (21 pens and pencils of the possible 25).
This is the most signficant show-andt-tell I've brought to pen shows in years. I'm on vacation. I have some fresh stock for sale of course. But, mainly this time I want to catch up with pen collectors old and new and to do some teaching and learning about old pens.
Do find me at the show today-Sunday
regards
david
I've collected vintage Sheaffer pens (mostly pre-1965) since starting with our hobby back in 1998. Over the years quite a number of gem pens (both regarding condition and cachet/rarity) have ended up in the ol' collection.
I have a number of foci within the brand and having turned my interest (and arguable skill) to Sheaffer's 1930's Balance -- in no small part because I pretty well exhausted the pool of exotica in my prime collecting focus, Parker's Vacumatic, and because Balance offers similar niche challenges-- I've put together what might be the worlds heftiest collection of Sheaffer Balance with off-catalogue cap-band patters, though perhaps my friend Pat has still more. We are overdue for another collection comparison.
At the Washington DC Supershow (pen show) this weekend, I will have in tow the core of my off-catalogue cap-band Balance collection, the advanced stuff, with 40+ pens with (instead of the catalogued smooth single cap-band) double, triple and fish-scale cap-bands.
Additionally, as the proud owner of what appears to be the only known actual private jeweler's catalog that shows some of the off-catalogue cap-band pens that collectors long have known as "Jeweler's cap-band" pens, I will have that remarkable document with me to show to those who like that sort.
And, yes, there is more. For the first time I have collated my somewhat accidentally (or is that "incidentally") acquired collection of solid gold Sheaffer pens, ranging from a a poppin' flat-top from 1920's in hand-engraved-vine pattern, to three Sheaffer Balance (yes, Balance was done as "Masterpiece" in solid gold) including the only known "In Your Honor" set as well as an off-catalogue pattern piece, to a range of 1940's pens, a 1950 TM Touchdown, Snorkel (both USA 14k and English barley-pattern 9k) to an 1960's Imperial Masterpiece and one of only a couple known solid 9-k English Sheaffer PFM's.
Oh yeah, I'm also bringing the (eep!) World's Largest Collection of orange flat-top celluloid Sheaffers including many off-catalogue variants, one of the heftiest collections out there of cherry-celluloid Sheaffer flat-tops and the only Sheaffer sub-brand streamlined Univer I've ever seen.
Oh, and the best condition Chilton Wingflow all gold-filled set and a Parker Vacumatic Imperial Coronet.
And, my "world's greatest collection" of Parker Vacumatic with Vacumatic cap-band (21 pens and pencils of the possible 25).
This is the most signficant show-andt-tell I've brought to pen shows in years. I'm on vacation. I have some fresh stock for sale of course. But, mainly this time I want to catch up with pen collectors old and new and to do some teaching and learning about old pens.
Do find me at the show today-Sunday
regards
david