So I am trying to get my head around the early iterations of the Sheaffer Crest. I have long been a fan of various Sheaffers and vintage Sheaffers are by far my favorite pens. For some reason I have never had an old Crest (though I have a Crest Snorkel for many years) and have become enamored with the early open nib versions and the slightly later Triumph nib ones as well. Lever, Vac, Brown, Black, Open, conical, I really dig them but I find it an incredibly frustrating line to grok and there is a surprisingly small amount of info out there.
I have a 1938 Catalog that someone scanned in and there is the Pen hero page but I still remain confused about some points. Dots come and go and move around. No dots, dots on the barrel, dots on the end, dots on the cap. thin, fat, price code, no price code and goodness knows how many off catalog variations.
It seems the original open nib job was a lever filler and came in 2 sizes.
Full size (sometimes sporting a price code of 1350) and the “Lady” (sometimes sporting a 1250 price code)… Then it got crazy as the Triumph pens came out and there were 1500 and 1750 price codes and now a third size <possibly_wrong> an oversize and while you could possibly get the Crest in Lever or Vac-fil, the oversize was only available in Black and only Lever fill. </possibly_wrong>
& now I am told by someone who knows and sells a lot of Sheaffers that the oversize is not really oversized at all but nearly the same size as the full size pen. He thinks I am chasing a ghost. He says his 1750 "oversize" is nearly the same size as the snorkel Crest. I find that hard to believe.
Does anyone have an variety of Crests, from early open, to vac/triumph, fat, thin, lady and oversize that they can show, caps off so as to get a sense of the size differences?
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