david i
February 25th, 2014, 03:44 PM
Sheaffer is well known for having introduced the Triumph family of pens during the 1940’s, pens that featured a conical sheath nib that eventually would take name from the pen becoming known as the Triumph nib.
Turns out Sheaffer was late to the party with the name Triumph.
Just as Waterman’s vaunted Patrician took that name after another pen maker (in this case, Parker) had used it for a pen, it turns out Sheaffer lifted a name that had been used more than a decade before Sheaffer adopted it, offered by another company, nationally distributed as a Gold Bond model offered by Montgomery Ward, the famous catalogue and brick-and-mortar chain store.
I’m pleased to bring this information to the collecting population’s attention.
To learn more about Gold Bond’s Triumph fountain pen, do watch for the next issue of PENnant Magazine, free with subscription to the Pen Collectors of America, in a powerful article written by someone or other, tentatively titled, “Pens From The Monkey Ward Part 2: Of Triumphs and Hercules”
Regards
David
Turns out Sheaffer was late to the party with the name Triumph.
Just as Waterman’s vaunted Patrician took that name after another pen maker (in this case, Parker) had used it for a pen, it turns out Sheaffer lifted a name that had been used more than a decade before Sheaffer adopted it, offered by another company, nationally distributed as a Gold Bond model offered by Montgomery Ward, the famous catalogue and brick-and-mortar chain store.
I’m pleased to bring this information to the collecting population’s attention.
To learn more about Gold Bond’s Triumph fountain pen, do watch for the next issue of PENnant Magazine, free with subscription to the Pen Collectors of America, in a powerful article written by someone or other, tentatively titled, “Pens From The Monkey Ward Part 2: Of Triumphs and Hercules”
Regards
David