New addition to my collection

Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer
pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I have a weakness
for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this, will know that I have a
weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in package.
I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months ago, when I
received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy to be called
"Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the "Land Fill" catagory.
Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare feature, on both top and bottom of
the FLAT nib were a "feed" like plastic. Well, that was the first time I had
seen that. it is always fun to learn something, isn't it?. I thought to
myself, "cheap garbage pen, but a really neat nib design." After trying the
darn thing, my arm made sudden move, and I never saw it again. (The pen that
is, my arm is doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled the
cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move towards my 10X,
while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say, low and behold the same
nib design return from file #13. I later found out (pendemonium.com) that it
was a model that competed against the Parker 180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain pen
spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell

I have a whole collection of those - along with the crazy designs in
convertors used (there we button, slide, rotating, press bar, and
visuated bulb). Now and then I offer them for sale - some mint, and
usually have a good selection of them at the Boston Show. I believe a
defense contractor in RI owned sheaffer at that time, so the engineering got
a big boost. There were 18 nib variations, and they unscrewed from the
section and could be interchanged as easily as if personal-point or esties.
The spring clips were designed to accommodate extremely thick fabric in coat
pockets yet to maintain the streamlined shape/design. The clutch in the cap
almost never fails - even better designed than that of the 51/61 series
(though far cheaper looking - you can tell at a glance it belongs in the
1970s with the bell bottom pants). An italic in that pen looks truly
unique, and far more durable than the Parker 180 (and also 1/15th the
vintage cost in today's market...yet both had equal variety and in gold
nibs, with the stylus having some steel and palladium nibbed models as
well...and tiny demi triumph 14K/palladium as well as replaceable ink ball
and felt tip screw on points for the same pen!). It was an engineer's field
day, but not as great in the battle against the ball point.

If you don't take care...the more you study those, the more you'll fall in
love with them.


wrote in message
. ..
Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer
pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I have a
weakness for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this, will know that I
have a weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in
package. I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months ago,
when I received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy to be
called "Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the "Land Fill"
catagory. Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare feature, on both top and
bottom of the FLAT nib were a "feed" like plastic. Well, that was the
first time I had seen that. it is always fun to learn something, isn't
it?. I thought to myself, "cheap garbage pen, but a really neat nib
design." After trying the darn thing, my arm made sudden move, and I
never saw it again. (The pen that is, my arm is doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled the
cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move towards my 10X,
while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say, low and behold the
same nib design return from file #13. I later found out (pendemonium.com)
that it was a model that competed against the Parker 180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain pen
spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell

Well, it is clearly too late for that. I would be interested in a black and
gold version. (My personal favourite combination on Sheaffer

this one is by far the cheapest they issued, but why did they paint the
price and nib size on the barrel of this black and lined chrome model. I
have never seen that before either.
The nib section is exactly what you said "an engineer's field day"
The nib section unscrews, and inside is a sub nib section that seems to
require a certain tool, or technique to unscrew it. It is a remarkable pen.
Yet another point for Sheaffer, Snorkle, and best filling system ever
designed, and then this!



D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
I have a whole collection of those - along with the crazy designs in
convertors used (there we button, slide, rotating, press bar, and
visuated bulb). Now and then I offer them for sale - some mint, and
usually have a good selection of them at the Boston Show. I believe a
defense contractor in RI owned sheaffer at that time, so the engineering
got a big boost. There were 18 nib variations, and they unscrewed from the
section and could be interchanged as easily as if personal-point or esties.
The spring clips were designed to accommodate extremely thick fabric in
coat pockets yet to maintain the streamlined shape/design. The clutch in
the cap almost never fails - even better designed than that of the 51/61
series (though far cheaper looking - you can tell at a glance it belongs in
the 1970s with the bell bottom pants). An italic in that pen looks truly
unique, and far more durable than the Parker 180 (and also 1/15th the
vintage cost in today's market...yet both had equal variety and in gold
nibs, with the stylus having some steel and palladium nibbed models as
well...and tiny demi triumph 14K/palladium as well as replaceable ink ball
and felt tip screw on points for the same pen!). It was an engineer's
field day, but not as great in the battle against the ball point.

If you don't take care...the more you study those, the more you'll fall in
love with them.


wrote in message
. ..
Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer
pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I have a
weakness for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this, will know that
I have a weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in
package. I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months ago,
when I received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy to be
called "Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the "Land Fill"
catagory. Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare feature, on both top
and bottom of the FLAT nib were a "feed" like plastic. Well, that was the
first time I had seen that. it is always fun to learn something, isn't
it?. I thought to myself, "cheap garbage pen, but a really neat nib
design." After trying the darn thing, my arm made sudden move, and I
never saw it again. (The pen that is, my arm is doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled the
cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move towards my
10X, while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say, low and behold
the same nib design return from file #13. I later found out
(pendemonium.com) that it was a model that competed against the Parker
180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain pen
spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell

Black body, gold medium nib, matching cap with the flex clip, marked
medium - writes fine when turned around, near mint - $20 delivered (includes
postage and an instruction sheet, etc...plus an odd convertor from that
era).

How's that? No ebay...no paypal...just a set price and and a first class
stamp. (if you are waiting for an order, this one is done and needs no
restoration...everything else here at the moment requires a lot more
time...especially custom nibs/highlighter nibs! My apologies for delays -)

Or did you mean black section and ALL metal (barrel and cap)? There is the
flighter (steel with gold clip and trim), or all lined gold, or black with
gold wave etchings over enamel...etc...etc.....?????? Those cost more, but
even the best stylist/stylus never gets over $75. They simply never had the
hype that the Parker 180 did.

wrote in message
...
Well, it is clearly too late for that. I would be interested in a black
and
gold version. (My personal favourite combination on Sheaffer

this one is by far the cheapest they issued, but why did they paint the
price and nib size on the barrel of this black and lined chrome model. I
have never seen that before either.
The nib section is exactly what you said "an engineer's field day"
The nib section unscrews, and inside is a sub nib section that seems to
require a certain tool, or technique to unscrew it. It is a remarkable
pen.
Yet another point for Sheaffer, Snorkle, and best filling system ever
designed, and then this!



D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
I have a whole collection of those - along with the crazy designs in
convertors used (there we button, slide, rotating, press bar, and
visuated bulb). Now and then I offer them for sale - some mint, and
usually have a good selection of them at the Boston Show. I believe a
defense contractor in RI owned sheaffer at that time, so the engineering
got a big boost. There were 18 nib variations, and they unscrewed from
the section and could be interchanged as easily as if personal-point or
esties. The spring clips were designed to accommodate extremely thick
fabric in coat pockets yet to maintain the streamlined shape/design. The
clutch in the cap almost never fails - even better designed than that of
the 51/61 series (though far cheaper looking - you can tell at a glance it
belongs in the 1970s with the bell bottom pants). An italic in that pen
looks truly unique, and far more durable than the Parker 180 (and also
1/15th the vintage cost in today's market...yet both had equal variety and
in gold nibs, with the stylus having some steel and palladium nibbed
models as well...and tiny demi triumph 14K/palladium as well as
replaceable ink ball and felt tip screw on points for the same pen!). It
was an engineer's field day, but not as great in the battle against the
ball point.

If you don't take care...the more you study those, the more you'll fall
in love with them.


wrote in message
. ..
Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer
pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I have a
weakness for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this, will know that
I have a weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in
package. I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months ago,
when I received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy to be
called "Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the "Land Fill"
catagory. Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare feature, on both top
and bottom of the FLAT nib were a "feed" like plastic. Well, that was
the first time I had seen that. it is always fun to learn something,
isn't it?. I thought to myself, "cheap garbage pen, but a really neat
nib design." After trying the darn thing, my arm made sudden move, and
I never saw it again. (The pen that is, my arm is doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled the
cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move towards my
10X, while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say, low and behold
the same nib design return from file #13. I later found out
(pendemonium.com) that it was a model that competed against the Parker
180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain pen
spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell

A black flighter with gold trim and nib would be my first choice, a matte or
gloss makes no difference here!

D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
Black body, gold medium nib, matching cap with the flex clip, marked
medium - writes fine when turned around, near mint - $20 delivered
(includes postage and an instruction sheet, etc...plus an odd convertor
from that era).

How's that? No ebay...no paypal...just a set price and and a first class
stamp. (if you are waiting for an order, this one is done and needs no
restoration...everything else here at the moment requires a lot more
time...especially custom nibs/highlighter nibs! My apologies for
delays -)

Or did you mean black section and ALL metal (barrel and cap)? There is
the flighter (steel with gold clip and trim), or all lined gold, or black
with gold wave etchings over enamel...etc...etc.....?????? Those cost
more, but even the best stylist/stylus never gets over $75. They simply
never had the hype that the Parker 180 did.

wrote in message
...
Well, it is clearly too late for that. I would be interested in a black
and
gold version. (My personal favourite combination on Sheaffer

this one is by far the cheapest they issued, but why did they paint the
price and nib size on the barrel of this black and lined chrome model. I
have never seen that before either.
The nib section is exactly what you said "an engineer's field day"
The nib section unscrews, and inside is a sub nib section that seems to
require a certain tool, or technique to unscrew it. It is a remarkable
pen.
Yet another point for Sheaffer, Snorkle, and best filling system ever
designed, and then this!



D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
I have a whole collection of those - along with the crazy designs in
convertors used (there we button, slide, rotating, press bar, and
visuated bulb). Now and then I offer them for sale - some mint, and
usually have a good selection of them at the Boston Show. I believe a
defense contractor in RI owned sheaffer at that time, so the engineering
got a big boost. There were 18 nib variations, and they unscrewed from
the section and could be interchanged as easily as if personal-point or
esties. The spring clips were designed to accommodate extremely thick
fabric in coat pockets yet to maintain the streamlined shape/design. The
clutch in the cap almost never fails - even better designed than that of
the 51/61 series (though far cheaper looking - you can tell at a glance
it belongs in the 1970s with the bell bottom pants). An italic in that
pen looks truly unique, and far more durable than the Parker 180 (and
also 1/15th the vintage cost in today's market...yet both had equal
variety and in gold nibs, with the stylus having some steel and palladium
nibbed models as well...and tiny demi triumph 14K/palladium as well as
replaceable ink ball and felt tip screw on points for the same pen!). It
was an engineer's field day, but not as great in the battle against the
ball point.

If you don't take care...the more you study those, the more you'll fall
in love with them.


wrote in message
. ..
Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for
Sheaffer pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I
have a weakness for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this, will
know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in
package. I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months ago,
when I received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy to be
called "Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the "Land
Fill" catagory. Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare feature, on
both top and bottom of the FLAT nib were a "feed" like plastic. Well,
that was the first time I had seen that. it is always fun to learn
something, isn't it?. I thought to myself, "cheap garbage pen, but a
really neat nib design." After trying the darn thing, my arm made
sudden move, and I never saw it again. (The pen that is, my arm is
doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled
the cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move towards
my 10X, while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say, low and
behold the same nib design return from file #13. I later found out
(pendemonium.com) that it was a model that competed against the Parker
180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain
pen spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell

Not quite $20 anymore - that's $35, all brushed steel with a 2mm band of
chrome steel at the cap lip, gold filled trim, gold nib, medium on one side
and fine on the other, mint-marked "Medium" and it has "$5" on the original
sticker (when gas was 22 cents per gallon and a house was $4,100), and has
the swirl barrel end (many of the steel barrels have smooth ends, fewer have
the pattern that is also found on plastic model barrel ends).

The variety is impressive in that line of pens. I've always suspected that
it exceeds that found in Parker 75's and 180's in terms of barrel patterns.

wrote in message
...
A black flighter with gold trim and nib would be my first choice, a matte
or gloss makes no difference here!

D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
Black body, gold medium nib, matching cap with the flex clip, marked
medium - writes fine when turned around, near mint - $20 delivered
(includes postage and an instruction sheet, etc...plus an odd convertor
from that era).

How's that? No ebay...no paypal...just a set price and and a first
class stamp. (if you are waiting for an order, this one is done and
needs no restoration...everything else here at the moment requires a lot
more time...especially custom nibs/highlighter nibs! My apologies for
delays -)

Or did you mean black section and ALL metal (barrel and cap)? There is
the flighter (steel with gold clip and trim), or all lined gold, or black
with gold wave etchings over enamel...etc...etc.....?????? Those cost
more, but even the best stylist/stylus never gets over $75. They simply
never had the hype that the Parker 180 did.

wrote in message
...
Well, it is clearly too late for that. I would be interested in a black
and
gold version. (My personal favourite combination on Sheaffer

this one is by far the cheapest they issued, but why did they paint the
price and nib size on the barrel of this black and lined chrome model. I
have never seen that before either.
The nib section is exactly what you said "an engineer's field day"
The nib section unscrews, and inside is a sub nib section that seems to
require a certain tool, or technique to unscrew it. It is a remarkable
pen.
Yet another point for Sheaffer, Snorkle, and best filling system ever
designed, and then this!



D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
I have a whole collection of those - along with the crazy designs in
convertors used (there we button, slide, rotating, press bar, and
visuated bulb). Now and then I offer them for sale - some mint, and
usually have a good selection of them at the Boston Show. I believe a
defense contractor in RI owned sheaffer at that time, so the engineering
got a big boost. There were 18 nib variations, and they unscrewed from
the section and could be interchanged as easily as if personal-point or
esties. The spring clips were designed to accommodate extremely thick
fabric in coat pockets yet to maintain the streamlined shape/design.
The clutch in the cap almost never fails - even better designed than
that of the 51/61 series (though far cheaper looking - you can tell at a
glance it belongs in the 1970s with the bell bottom pants). An italic
in that pen looks truly unique, and far more durable than the Parker 180
(and also 1/15th the vintage cost in today's market...yet both had equal
variety and in gold nibs, with the stylus having some steel and
palladium nibbed models as well...and tiny demi triumph 14K/palladium as
well as replaceable ink ball and felt tip screw on points for the same
pen!). It was an engineer's field day, but not as great in the battle
against the ball point.

If you don't take care...the more you study those, the more you'll fall
in love with them.


wrote in message
. ..
Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for
Sheaffer pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I
have a weakness for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this, will
know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in
package. I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months
ago, when I received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy to
be called "Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the "Land
Fill" catagory. Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare feature, on
both top and bottom of the FLAT nib were a "feed" like plastic. Well,
that was the first time I had seen that. it is always fun to learn
something, isn't it?. I thought to myself, "cheap garbage pen, but a
really neat nib design." After trying the darn thing, my arm made
sudden move, and I never saw it again. (The pen that is, my arm is
doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled
the cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move towards
my 10X, while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say, low and
behold the same nib design return from file #13. I later found out
(pendemonium.com) that it was a model that competed against the Parker
180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain
pen spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell

How do you want it? I am in Canada.
email me directly, I can't get through your spam sheild

D

"Noodler" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Not quite $20 anymore - that's $35, all brushed steel with a 2mm band of
chrome steel at the cap lip, gold filled trim, gold nib, medium on one
side and fine on the other, mint-marked "Medium" and it has "$5" on the
original sticker (when gas was 22 cents per gallon and a house was
$4,100), and has the swirl barrel end (many of the steel barrels have
smooth ends, fewer have the pattern that is also found on plastic model
barrel ends).

The variety is impressive in that line of pens. I've always suspected
that it exceeds that found in Parker 75's and 180's in terms of barrel
patterns.

wrote in message
...
A black flighter with gold trim and nib would be my first choice, a matte
or gloss makes no difference here!

D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
Black body, gold medium nib, matching cap with the flex clip, marked
medium - writes fine when turned around, near mint - $20 delivered
(includes postage and an instruction sheet, etc...plus an odd convertor
from that era).

How's that? No ebay...no paypal...just a set price and and a first
class stamp. (if you are waiting for an order, this one is done and
needs no restoration...everything else here at the moment requires a lot
more time...especially custom nibs/highlighter nibs! My apologies for
delays -)

Or did you mean black section and ALL metal (barrel and cap)? There is
the flighter (steel with gold clip and trim), or all lined gold, or
black with gold wave etchings over enamel...etc...etc.....?????? Those
cost more, but even the best stylist/stylus never gets over $75. They
simply never had the hype that the Parker 180 did.

wrote in message
...
Well, it is clearly too late for that. I would be interested in a black
and
gold version. (My personal favourite combination on Sheaffer

this one is by far the cheapest they issued, but why did they paint the
price and nib size on the barrel of this black and lined chrome model.
I
have never seen that before either.
The nib section is exactly what you said "an engineer's field day"
The nib section unscrews, and inside is a sub nib section that seems to
require a certain tool, or technique to unscrew it. It is a remarkable
pen.
Yet another point for Sheaffer, Snorkle, and best filling system ever
designed, and then this!



D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
I have a whole collection of those - along with the crazy designs in
convertors used (there we button, slide, rotating, press bar, and
visuated bulb). Now and then I offer them for sale - some mint, and
usually have a good selection of them at the Boston Show. I believe
a defense contractor in RI owned sheaffer at that time, so the
engineering got a big boost. There were 18 nib variations, and they
unscrewed from the section and could be interchanged as easily as if
personal-point or esties. The spring clips were designed to accommodate
extremely thick fabric in coat pockets yet to maintain the streamlined
shape/design. The clutch in the cap almost never fails - even better
designed than that of the 51/61 series (though far cheaper looking -
you can tell at a glance it belongs in the 1970s with the bell bottom
pants). An italic in that pen looks truly unique, and far more durable
than the Parker 180 (and also 1/15th the vintage cost in today's
market...yet both had equal variety and in gold nibs, with the stylus
having some steel and palladium nibbed models as well...and tiny demi
triumph 14K/palladium as well as replaceable ink ball and felt tip
screw on points for the same pen!). It was an engineer's field day,
but not as great in the battle against the ball point.

If you don't take care...the more you study those, the more you'll
fall in love with them.


wrote in message
. ..
Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for
Sheaffer pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I
have a weakness for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this, will
know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in
package. I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months
ago, when I received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy
to be called "Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the
"Land Fill" catagory. Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare
feature, on both top and bottom of the FLAT nib were a "feed" like
plastic. Well, that was the first time I had seen that. it is always
fun to learn something, isn't it?. I thought to myself, "cheap
garbage pen, but a really neat nib design." After trying the darn
thing, my arm made sudden move, and I never saw it again. (The pen
that is, my arm is doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled
the cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move
towards my 10X, while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say,
low and behold the same nib design return from file #13. I later
found out (pendemonium.com) that it was a model that competed against
the Parker 180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain
pen spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell

Done.


wrote in message
news
How do you want it? I am in Canada.
email me directly, I can't get through your spam sheild

D

"Noodler" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Not quite $20 anymore - that's $35, all brushed steel with a 2mm band of
chrome steel at the cap lip, gold filled trim, gold nib, medium on one
side and fine on the other, mint-marked "Medium" and it has "$5" on the
original sticker (when gas was 22 cents per gallon and a house was
$4,100), and has the swirl barrel end (many of the steel barrels have
smooth ends, fewer have the pattern that is also found on plastic model
barrel ends).

The variety is impressive in that line of pens. I've always suspected
that it exceeds that found in Parker 75's and 180's in terms of barrel
patterns.

wrote in message
...
A black flighter with gold trim and nib would be my first choice, a matte
or gloss makes no difference here!

D


"Noodler" wrote in message
link.net...
Black body, gold medium nib, matching cap with the flex clip, marked
medium - writes fine when turned around, near mint - $20 delivered
(includes postage and an instruction sheet, etc...plus an odd convertor
from that era).

How's that? No ebay...no paypal...just a set price and and a first
class stamp. (if you are waiting for an order, this one is done and
needs no restoration...everything else here at the moment requires a
lot more time...especially custom nibs/highlighter nibs! My apologies
for delays -)

Or did you mean black section and ALL metal (barrel and cap)? There is
the flighter (steel with gold clip and trim), or all lined gold, or
black with gold wave etchings over enamel...etc...etc.....?????? Those
cost more, but even the best stylist/stylus never gets over $75. They
simply never had the hype that the Parker 180 did.

wrote in message
...
Well, it is clearly too late for that. I would be interested in a
black and
gold version. (My personal favourite combination on Sheaffer

this one is by far the cheapest they issued, but why did they paint
the
price and nib size on the barrel of this black and lined chrome model.
I
have never seen that before either.
The nib section is exactly what you said "an engineer's field day"
The nib section unscrews, and inside is a sub nib section that seems
to
require a certain tool, or technique to unscrew it. It is a remarkable
pen.
Yet another point for Sheaffer, Snorkle, and best filling system ever
designed, and then this!



D


"Noodler" wrote in message
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I have a whole collection of those - along with the crazy designs in
convertors used (there we button, slide, rotating, press bar, and
visuated bulb). Now and then I offer them for sale - some mint, and
usually have a good selection of them at the Boston Show. I believe
a defense contractor in RI owned sheaffer at that time, so the
engineering got a big boost. There were 18 nib variations, and they
unscrewed from the section and could be interchanged as easily as if
personal-point or esties. The spring clips were designed to
accommodate extremely thick fabric in coat pockets yet to maintain the
streamlined shape/design. The clutch in the cap almost never fails -
even better designed than that of the 51/61 series (though far cheaper
looking - you can tell at a glance it belongs in the 1970s with the
bell bottom pants). An italic in that pen looks truly unique, and far
more durable than the Parker 180 (and also 1/15th the vintage cost in
today's market...yet both had equal variety and in gold nibs, with the
stylus having some steel and palladium nibbed models as well...and
tiny demi triumph 14K/palladium as well as replaceable ink ball and
felt tip screw on points for the same pen!). It was an engineer's
field day, but not as great in the battle against the ball point.

If you don't take care...the more you study those, the more you'll
fall in love with them.


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Most of you who know me , also know that I have a weakness for
Sheaffer pens, those of you who don't know, you also now know that I
have a weakness for Sheaffer pens. Soon everyone who reads this,
will know that I have a weakness for Sheaffer pens...

A recent discovery! A purchase of a pen lot, a bit of a wait, and an
exchange of emails, I ended up with a Sheaffer Stylist FP and MP in
package. I had no idea such a pen existed until a couple of months
ago, when I received a set of pen samples, the pens were not worthy
to be called "Fountain Pens" and would have easily fallen into the
"Land Fill" catagory. Nevertheless.... one did hold a bizzare
feature, on both top and bottom of the FLAT nib were a "feed" like
plastic. Well, that was the first time I had seen that. it is always
fun to learn something, isn't it?. I thought to myself, "cheap
garbage pen, but a really neat nib design." After trying the darn
thing, my arm made sudden move, and I never saw it again. (The pen
that is, my arm is doing fine)

Upon inspection of the now on my desk "New additions", I pulled
the cap off the Stylist and I felt my arm (the same one) move
towards my 10X, while the other adjusted the light. Needless to say,
low and behold the same nib design return from file #13. I later
found out (pendemonium.com) that it was a model that competed
against the Parker 180 in the 70's.

I am very happy to have aquired this piece, and I thank the Fountain
pen spirts for bringing it to me.

Would anyone have more info about this nib design?

Darrell