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    Default Re: Heritage ain't what it used to be

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    Jon,

    You sent them an email?

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    Default Re: Heritage ain't what it used to be

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    The site is fixed. Well done, Jon.

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    Default Re: Heritage ain't what it used to be

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    That's wholly unlike recent Sheaffers that have come my way!
    I could have just as easily posted a number of my favorite Targas that only date back to the late 70's and 80's. Still quality-made and stylish pens. The drop in those aspects of production was fairly quick, all things told.
    Sheaffer made some good pens even in to the 1990s.

    The Legacy I is a bit heavy for my tastes but is a real quality piece of kit.
    The Prelude is a great pen design with that classic Nononsense-esque feed and great stiff steel nibs.
    The Triumph "Imperials" (I wan't one of those Cadium Yellow puppies) and Targas.

    And those mid 90s "Crest" Reissues are genuinely great (Though the Opalite ones are prone to shrink and deform)

    Do they stack up in design or QC to the Flat top or Balance era, the Forticel stuff or the Pneumatic pens, no (very little does imo) but I love my small pile of Preludes and my 2 C/C Crests. The 18k nibs on those are so soft and Sheaffer knew how to make a feed plastic that was a good as their ebonite (none better. Ever.)

    & I'll just say this the Nononsense is (IMO) the absolute G O A T cheap American pen and one of the greatest pens ever and you could walk in to any drug store or Korvette's in the 1980s and grab one in a blister pack and be off to the races.

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