Sheaffer orange flat-top happy david

[david i]

Next door at FPB, we've had a long running thread about 1920-1930s orange (Coral) Celluloid Sheaffer flat-tops. During the last two months I picked up a couple that are interesting. I call 'em Wooten Busters, in honor of muh bud Roger.

The catalogoued standard-diameter pens have the high-set straight clip. Off-catalogue slender pens are found with high-set straight clip and lower-set humped clip. Some standard-diameter pens with later clips have turned up as Service pens, which were something of special case.

In our analysis of the odd slender pens that appear with early and late trim, Roger had noted that the slender pens likely succeeded the standard girth pens

I think there is no way in hell that thick R3-25's were made at the same time as thin R3-25's one gave way to the other. You will concede I am sure that there are no standard girth R3-25's with hump clips?

So, I now can offer these non-service standard-diameter pens. The Facebook group no doubt will explore more too. I don't offer this to poke at Roger, but to show that old pens that can tweak the conventional wisdom still are out there.

To review the whole discussion, see the FPB thread on orange flat-top Sheaffers.



regards

david