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Pen #3225   Sheaffer Triumph   $247
Overall Grade: excellent	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: none	Filler: plunger
Point:  extra fine	Imprint: excellent	Size:  5.21"
COMMENTS:  Note that this is a different pen than has been in this spot. Nearly identical, but the pen as an extra fine nib VS the previous pen's fine nib  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 #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.  You're looking right at it in the picture.  No brassing to clip or cap bands, though they are a little hazy.  The clip very minor 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 #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 #3226   Parker 3 Band standard $147
Overall Grade: extra fine	Metal: excellent	Material: celluloid
Nib condition: excellent	Flaws: see comments	VacumaticFiller:
Point:   fine	Imprint: worn but readable.           No date code visible	Size:  5.03"
COMMENT:   The 3 band standard Parker Vacumatic was well, the standard size pen.  The next size up was the oversize, the next pen down was the Jr, which was a little shorter and had two bands on the cap.  I like these better than the later Vacumatics because they're a little bigger than the later Jr/Major pens, the section a bit wider so they feel better in my hand.  The color on this pen is decent, the clip clean, the nib smooth and nice writing.  The cap bands and tassie have been replated with nickel, immersed in the solution, not brush plated.  Fully restored.

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 #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 #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 #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 #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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