In what can only be described as bizarre, I got together for a 4th of July dinner with my mom and dad yesterday. We were talking about collectibles and I mentioned that I had a soft spot for vintage fountain pens. My mom and dad did not know this, to which my mom responded "What, like Sheaffers and such?" I said yes exactly, and recounted the story of me losing lots of ebay auctions for various Sheaffer vac fillers (probably lost 10 auctions on various Sheaffer vac fills over the past month or two). Anyhow, she went into the other room for a few minutes and came out with a Sheaffer Triumph and its matching pencil. The Triumph is a vac filler that's in primo shape. They were apparently my grandfathers, and while there's some tarnishing, they're in almost new condition. I was dumbfounded. She gave them to me and so now I think I will have them professionally restored, even though the filler appears operational and whooshs
How bizarre is that?
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