david i
September 1st, 2014, 06:22 PM
Picked this up at the August 2014 Washington DC Pen Show:
Lever-fill pens are the minority for WWI-era Sheaffer Triumph fountain pens-- the vast majority are plunger-fill.
But, that's not what's really neat.
Modern music nibs are popular with those who like them (go figure). Finding a music nib in a 1940s American pen is rare rare rare (in the proper sense of the word). So when this one turned up at the Washington DC Pen Show last month, I happily grabbed it. Amongst the tens of thousands of old pens I've seen/handled, this is the first WW II era Sheaffer with a Music point I've seen. Happy David.
http://www.vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_triumph_WWII_musicnib950a.jpg
regards
david
Lever-fill pens are the minority for WWI-era Sheaffer Triumph fountain pens-- the vast majority are plunger-fill.
But, that's not what's really neat.
Modern music nibs are popular with those who like them (go figure). Finding a music nib in a 1940s American pen is rare rare rare (in the proper sense of the word). So when this one turned up at the Washington DC Pen Show last month, I happily grabbed it. Amongst the tens of thousands of old pens I've seen/handled, this is the first WW II era Sheaffer with a Music point I've seen. Happy David.
http://www.vacumania.com/penteech2/sheaffer_triumph_WWII_musicnib950a.jpg
regards
david