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Pen #3207   Sheaffer Triumph   $247
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: none	Filler: plunger
Point:  fine	Imprint: excellent	Size:  5.21"
COMMENTS:  The Triumph pens with their conical nib were introduced early in WWII.  The trim is gold plated silver to save on strategic materials.  The filling system saved on rubber because it eliminated the sac.  They're great pens, well made, cool design.  The Carmine red pens are among the most looked for of the mode.  The color on this one is very good and consistent. Freshly restored using our long life, chemical and wear resistant rubber materials

Pen #3216   Sheaffer/Levenger Red Sea Connaisseur     $177
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material:  plastic
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws:  none	Filler: cartridge/converter             converter included
Point:  extra fine	Imprint:	Size:  5.54"
COMMENTS:  I picked up my first Connaisseur up in Ottawa in Canada many years ago.  The shop on Banks St. had the pens at a reasonable price, and when converted to USD it was a no brainer.  Nice pens about the size of the original Senior Flat top.  A couple of decades later I had a black Connaisseur that needed a cap.  I ran into Dan Reppert at the LA show, and asked him if he had a black cap.  He said, "I don't think that I do.  Why don't you make one?"  The he told me the story - short form: he came up with the idea to take the basic No Nonsense, add fancy trim and a gold nib to turn the student pen into a high end pen.  Sheaffer turned down the idea, until after Dan left that is.  When he came back, there was the pen.  The parts really are interchangeable.  I've taken several NN pens and turned them in to the full blown Connaisseur.   Sheaffer discontinued the Connaisseur line in 1996, but brought it back again in 1998 as a house brand for Levenger.  The one here is one of my favorite colors, the Red Sea.  The pen has an extra fine 18K nib that is quite nice writing.  A squeeze converter is included.  Cleaned, polished, tested by carrying it for a couple of weeks.  I don't need two of them though, so this one can be yours!  It comes in the original box and Levenger  branded outer box with papers.

Pen #3215    Sheaffer TM (thin model)   Sentinel Deluxe  fountain pen and Ballpoint  set    $157
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler: Touchdown           BP - see comments for          notes on the replacement refill
Point:   fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.34"
COMMENTS:  This is the first time I've encountered one of these sets.  This is a Sentinel Deluxe pen, which Sheaffer kept in production until the last half of the 60s, which explains the ballpoint pen instead of just a pencil.  The fountain pen is fully restored, and really quite nice writing.  The ballpoint has a button/ratchet mechanism.  Sheaffer ballpoint refills are hard to find, but Monteverde makes a very good refill designed to fit the Sheaffer pens.  On this pen you will need to shorten the button on the end of the refill, or just move the one from the refill in the pen over to the replacement.  A nice clean set with no dents or cracks.  A little woggle to the BP clip, but not bad.  .

Pen #3223   Flat top Parker 75   #1    SOLD
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material: sterling
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler:  cartridge/converter              converter included
Point:   medium	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.03"
COMMENT:  The Parker 75 is one of the iconic Parker pens.  Introduced in 1964 it was the "expensive" pen that Kenneth Parker wanted on Parker's 75 anniversary.  The section is triangular, the nib rotated so that the user could adjust it to make contact with the paper at just the right angle.  The line was in production until the late 80s with many classic limited editions along the way and the section took on a round shape,  but the basic grid pattern 75 was in production to the end.  The early versions had flat tassies on the cap and barrel, and used the "skinny " feed.  Both the pen and nibs were made in Janesville.  This pen is in extra fine condition.  The flat top cap tassie has a small ding right at the corner, and the trim ring has some surface irregularity.  The grid is enamel blackened.  Related trim.  No dents or dings in the cap or barrel.  The pen has a nice writing medium nib.

Pen #3198  Parker 45 Flighter    $87
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: acrylic
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: none	Filler:   cartridge/converter               a rebuilt squeeze  converter               (PVC sac installed) included
Point:   Medium 14K	Imprint:	Size:  5.37"
COMMENTS:     The Parker 45 was Parker's first cartridge filling pen, introduced in 1960,  The name "45" tied it to the Colt 45,  all that you had to do to reload it was to drop in a cartridge.  Richard Binder has a really interesting article on these pens.  They were popular enough that Parker made the pen in various finishes and colors for 46 years.  This is a "flighter".  The name for these all stainless steel pens started with the 51 Flighter in the 1950s.  Gold filled trim, and on this pen a 14K nib.  This pen has a new section, so none of the "puckering" that you often see on a 45.  A very clean, nice pen, ready to write.

Pen #3221   Flat top Parker 75  #2    SOLD
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: sterling
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler:  cartridge/converter              converter included
Point:   medium	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.03"
COMMENT:  With David Isaacson's caution "Don't refer to another pen on the website because it might get sold ringing in my ears, I'm recycling the description from pen 3223.    The big differences are the price - a reflection of the clean cap tassie and the clean clutch ring on the section.  The threads of the rings on both pens have been sealed so that the metal won't corrode or ink wick through to get on your fingers at the back end of the ring.   Each listing has the picture of the pen that you will be getting. The Parker 75 is one of the iconic Parker pens.  Introduced in 1964 it was the "expensive" pen that Kenneth Parker wanted on Parker's 75 anniversary.  The section is triangular, the nib rotated so that the user could adjust it to make contact with the paper at just the right angle.  The line was in production until the late 80s with many classic limited editions along the way and the section took on a round shape,  but the basic grid pattern 75 was in production to the end.  The early versions had flat tassies on the cap and barrel, and used the "skinny " feed.  Both the pen and nibs were made in Janesville.  This pen is in extra excellent condition.  The grid is enamel blackened.  Related trim.  No dents or dings in the cap or barrel. It has a nice writing medium nib.

Pen #3222       Sheaffer Valiant Triumph nib pen    SOLD
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material:  Forticel
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler:  plunger filler
Point:   fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.1"
COMMENTS:   Sheaffer used the name Valiant for their military clip pens earlier in the 40s.    The Sheaffer pluger filled Triumph nib Valiant was the largest pen that Sheaffer had  later in the 40s and in the Triumph pen line.  A bit fatter, a bit longer than most of the other Triumph pens.  This is one of the later ones from about 1947, made before the line was discontinued in 1948.  It has the one piece filler and section that screwed into the barrel and held the ink , instead of the ink directly in the barrel as was the case with earlier pens.  I'm assuming Forticel instead of celluloid because of the design, but two materials did overlap for a while.  The nib is a really nice, smooth writing fine.  The only flaw is that you can see a faint line where the top of the inner cap sits. Fully restored with our high grade, long life synthetic rubber seals.

Pen #3201         Sheaffer   3-25  Slender Flat top       $137
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler: lever
Point: extra fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.34"
COMMENTS:   If you like the look of the flat top pens, but don't want the girth of a Sr flat top, or the shorter length of the Jr,this pen is for you.  Same length as a Sr flat top, but much thinner.  Same design elements, but the nib is a 3-25 instead of a Lifetime nib.  Still a quality 14K nib, but the pen cost $3.25 and didn't carry the lifetime warranty.  The only flaw in the pen was a small spot of brassing on the cap band.  None on the clip or lever, no tooth marks, cracks etc.  The nib is a fairly firm extra fine. A nice clean pen, freshly restored.

Pen #3218         Sheaffer   5-30  Short slender Flat top       $117
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler: lever
Point: extra fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  4.55"
COMMENTS:   This is about the size of the standard Jr Flat top. The colors in the picture are reasonably accurate.  The cap is original to the pen, but a little lighter.  The trim is clean except for the wear at the high point on the ball of the clip.  The imprint on the barrel is strong and deep.  The nib is a EXTRA fine, but writes quite nicely.  Restored.

Pen #3208        Sheaffer Oversize Balance      $297
Overall Grade: fine to extra fine	Metal: extra fine	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler:  lever
Point: fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.5"
COMMENTS:   The Balance was introduced in 1929-1930.  Early colors were black, jade and black and pearl.  The gray pearl, or silver pearl as some call it, and the radius clip, were introduced in 1935, and continued to the end of the product run.  Though oversize and therefore big, the pens are, well, balanced, and fit comfortably in your hand.  No brassing to clip or cap bands, though they are a little hazy.  The clip a bit wavy at the end just above the ball, but it's firmly attached and doesn't wiggle.  The lever has been plated with rhodium.  There also is a name in the barrel.  The color in the picture is pretty accurate.  You'll find an excellent, clean imprint,  and a clean, smooth writing nib with a good mask on the end.  Not perfect, but a good every day carry pen for someone who likes larger pens.  Restored, nib tested and smoothed.

Pen #3217        Sheaffer Valiant military clip Balance        SOLD
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler: plunger filler
Point: fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.13"
COMMENTS:  Sheaffer made a number of sizes of their military clip pens, five in all.  The Valiant  priced at $10 was the largest and "best" mode.  The Commander, both smaller and lacking the Lifetime nib and white dot the lowest priced pen.  This one is quite clean, no brassing, no cracks, the pluger filler restored with our high grade rubber materials.  It has a nice writing fine nib.  There is some transparency to the barrel - more a blue tint VS the bright green of a really clean and transparent pen.  Nice pen.

Pen #3224   Sheaffer  Long Slender Balance    $157 Jeweler's band cap
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: extra fine	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws:  see comments	Filler: plunger
Point: extra fine lifetime	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.12"
COMMENTS:    A drive into the country last weekend brought us this gem of a pen.  The pen is the same length as a standard Balance, but the diameter is thinner - about 0.405" or about 10.3mm.  It's a gem of a pen.  It has a jeweler's band cap, that is a wide band with vertical lines and a cartouche area on the back of the band.  Not rare, but neither is it at all common.  The pen has remarkable transparency, a crisp imprint, and a very smooth extra fine nib.  When I tested the pen after restoring it, the barrel filled all of the way in just one stroke.  As always, it's restored using our high grade synthetic rubber material.  Seventeen years since I restored my first ones, and the rubber has yet to fail. Good stuff....

Pen #3212       Parker Vacumatic Major      SOLD
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: extra fine	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler:  vacumatic
Point: fine	Imprint: worn.  "Made in USA" and the          date code missing, the rest readable	Size:  5.1"
COMMENTS:   In many ways better than the nearly identical pen that occupied this table a few weeks ago.  Better color, better trim, a nice smooth nib.  No cracks or tooth marks. The silver colored trim on these pens is known for being a little "hazy" instead of shiny bright, and this one is too, but still pretty clean with no brassing.  There is some transparency to the pen as you can see in the picture.  The plastic thread bushing on the filler (the rod is clear and white BTW) puts the manufacturing date during WWII when the aluminum was replaced with plastic to save on a strategic metal.    Fully restored.

Pen #3184   Parker Challenger   SOLD
Overall Grade: fine to extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws:  see comments	Filler: button
Point:   Extra fine Canadian Duofold nib	Imprint: Worn, mostly readable                see comments	Size:  5"
COMMENTS:  This is the standard size Challenger, about the same diameter as the Duofold Jr.  Nice color on this pen bright color throughout.  The date code is worn, but typically mid-30s.  The cap band was a bit rough, so polished and replated, clip plated to match color.   The imprint is a little worn to the right end - date code missing.  The nib is a replacement - a Canadian Duofold nib. Nice writing. No cracks or tooth marks.  Freshly restored.

Pen #3194         Sheaffer   Valiant snorkel          $147
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material: Forticel
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler: snorkel
Point:  marked M6 = medium	Imprint:	Size:  5.55"
COMMENTS:   Snorkels don't need any introduction do they?   They're found all  over the place, and may be a close 2nd to the Parker 51 for pen sales.  They followd Sheaffers Touch Down pens, but added the snorkel so that the only time you needed to dip the pen in ink was the first time you filled it.  After that, just the snorkel tube, which eliminated the need to wipe the nib off after filling.  Very clean, no dents, no dings, no brassing...  clean inside too.  The nib is marked M6, which means that it's a medium nib with the palladium mask on the tip.  The flaw in the pen is that the clip wiggles.  A nice writing pen, fully restored.

Pen #3205        Sheaffer  Clipper snorkel          $137
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material: Forticel
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: none	Filler: snorkel
Point:  fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.55"
COMMENTS:  Snorkels don't need any introduction, so I won't with this one.  Except to point out that it has a fine, nice writing palladium silver nib. Nice and clean inside, fully restored.

Pen #3204      Sheaffer  Thin Model Touchdown       $137
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material: Forticel
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler: Touchdown
Point: fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.38"
COMMENTS:  Fooled ya!  It looks like a snorkel, but its not.  It's the slightly older sibling of the snorkel, making it's entrance in the pen market in 1950.  The Thin Model (TM) touchdown opens replaced the short lived "fat" touchdowns after just one year of production, and about 2 years before the snorkel.  All of the snorkel design elements are there, except of course the snorkel filling system. Caps are interchangeable, colors (at least at the start) identical, but because room isn't needed for the spring, threaded sac guard and all that, it's a little shorter.  This is a nice writing, very clean pen  Restored, of course!

Pen #3177  Sheaffer TM Touchdown  $137
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: Forticel
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	Filler:   Touchdown
Point:   Extra Fine	Imprint:  none	Size:  5.27"
COMMENTS:  Sheaffer moved away from their plunger filler mechanism in 1948 with the introduction of their pneumatic Touchdown  filling system.  It still filled the pen with one stroke, but using air pressure to squeeze the sac, instead of a vacuum to pull ink into the pen.  The "Fat" TD pens were made for one year - 1948.  The TM version was introduced in 1949 and ran for a while when Sheaffer introduced the snorkel pens which had the same external design, but with design differences to accommodate the snorkel filling system.  This one is freshly restored.  No imprint on the barrel, and there is a very small off center dent in the top of the cap and a couple of shallow tooth marks on the blind cap.  Still, a nice pen!

Pen #3175   Sheaffer Admiral    $147
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: Forticel
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: none	Filler:  Touchdown
Point:   extra fine	Imprint:  excellent	Size:  5.1"
COMMENTS:  The Admiral dates from the late 1940s, and overlaps with the introduction of the TM Touchdown pens.  About the same diameter as a standard Balance, it's almost the same as the Craftsman, the main difference being the wide band VS the wire band, and a two tone #5 Feather Touch nib vs a 33 nib.  Like the Touchdown pens, it has a spring loaded clip.  Nice transparency on the barrel.  The nib is a nice writing extra fine.  Freshly restored.

Pen #3193   Sheaffer Targa 1003 BP and Pencil set   Stickered!     $47
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material:  Matte Lacquer                over brass
Nib condition:	Flaws: none	Filler: ballpoint and pencil
Point:   BP	Imprint: N/A	Size:  5.1 "
COMMENTS:   Sheaffer 1003 matte black/gold plated trim  BP and Pencil set released in 1980.  No flaws, sticker on the back of the "cap" on pen and pencil, corner tag and the papers under the pad. I've installed a Monteverdi replacement refill in the BP so that you can use the ballpoint,. but the original refill is under the pad.  The box is in excellent condition.  The Monteverdi refill writes better than the original Sheaffer refills did, but they are just a little long, so I shorten the top of the plug the depth of the notch in the plug.

Pen #3199   Sheaffer  Reminder Clip BP and Pencil set   Stickered!     $27
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material:  chrome plated
Nib condition:	Flaws: none	Filler: ballpoint and pencil
Point:   BP	Imprint: N/A	Size:  5.1 "
COMMENTS:   One of those items that you hate to pass over when you see them.... This is a very clean Sheaffer "reminder clip" ballpoint and pencil set.  "What the heck is that?"  A 70s design,, the BP design makes it impossible to clip the pen in your shirt pocket with the refill extended.  To move the point forward, you press on the forward end of the BP clip, putting it flush with the barrel.  To retract, you press on the back end of the clip at the white dot.  Simple and effective.  As far as I can tell it's never been used.  The set is in the original box with the banner, paperwork and original refill.  I've inserted a modern Monteverde refill made for Sheaffer ballpoints.  You'll find the original in the box with the pen and pencil.  ...and yes, the refill's flat back end works just fine with this pen.

Pen #3166  Parker 97    $67
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: Stainess steel
Nib condition: NOS	Flaws: none	Filler: cartridge/converter            squeeze converter included
Point: medium gold plated	Imprint:  crisp	Size:  5.75"
COMMENTS:  .The Parker 95 was made from 1988 to 1994, and was produced in the UK, USA and France. This one was made in the US.  The pen has a NOS nib unit installed, and a squeeze converter.

Pen #3149   Esterbrook Eight Ball desk set   SOLD
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material:  CAB = Cellulose butyrate
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws:  NONE!	Filler:  lever
Point: medium  2668	Imprint: extra fine	Size:
COMMENTS:  The classic Esterbrook desk pen.  Levenger even copied this idea at one point with one of their True Writer sets.  Very clean, no flaws.  I did replace the felt on the bottom though.  The pen is restored, the taper perfect.  A 2668 nib is installed.  I have some 9000 series nibs available for an additional $25.  Ask if interested...

Pen #3138  Parker 15   Flighter   $57
Overall Grade: mint, NOS	Metal: excellent	Material:  stainless steel
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws:  NONE!	Filler: cartridge/converter             converter included
Point: medium	Imprint:	Size:  4.8"
COMMENTS:  I haven't seen these pens before I found some at the recent Ohio Show.  The only reference that I've found that is close is on the Tony Fischier's parkerpens.net website.  These were made in France, but match his description of a pen that is close in design to the Parker 45 with the identical clip and tassie. Likely sold in the UK as a high quality student pen, the Fligher was not advertised.. This design started production in 1980.  No markings other than the Parker logo and "Made in France."  I won't call it rare, but certainly uncommon with this cap configuration.   This is a slender pen, plastic section, steel nib, gold trim.  The cap clutch and clutch fingers quite similar to those of the Parker 75.   It comes with a modern Parker piston converter.  This pen is true mint.  Please tell us that you want the pen tested and nib smoothed when you order, otherwise the pen will be shipped as is, i,e,  mint, unfilled or tested.

Pen #3111  Rotring Freeway    SOLD
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material:  matte
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws:  NONE!	Filler: cartridge/converter             converter included
Point: medium	Imprint:	Size:  5.5"
COMMENTS:  The Rotring Freeway was introduced in the early 2000s.  They're robust pens with what appears to be an anodized aluminum finish, but is matte lacquer over brass.  The nib housing in the pens was also used in the 600 that has the clutch tabs at the back end of the section.  You used to see quite a few of them for sale, but listings are becoming somewhat uncommon.  The nib is marked medium, but writing with it and testing, it seems to be more on the fine end of the scale.  No damage at all.  Nice pen with a nice heft to it - just a little too small for my aging hands.

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