Sheaffer Lifetime Imperial(1963)

[BLCL]

I have been using the Lifetime Imperial since 1979 as a factory replacement for a Lifetime Vacu-fil which was my grandfather's. The 1963 Imperial is a very nice pen--a good, smooth writer and a beautiful pen. People comment on it when I remove it from my shirt pocket to write something. I do alternate this pen with a 1959 Sheaffer Valiant Snorkel. Sometimes I feel that the 1963 model is so much simpler that it is losing something and that I do not have as much pen as I do with the Snorkel. Both of these pens have beauty and give great pleasure to writing.

 

I welcome any comments.

[Ernst Bitterman]

Well... there's certainly fewer bits involved in the Imperial than in the Snorkel, but it gains in this through being easier to maintain.

 

I'm a fan of both, though, and would hate to be without either.

[TheLacOperon]

Yes, I love the expression people give when they hear "fountain pen". Always draws a few comments here and there.

 

Also, there is a chance people say they have fountain pens, especially older people.

 

Just a thought.

[Tim Self]

Yes, I love the expression people give when they hear "fountain pen". Always draws a few comments here and there.

 

Also, there is a chance people say they have fountain pens, especially older people.

 

Just a thought.

Yes, when I'm at a show I ask a person if they've ever used a fountain pen. Then they say, "Oh, that's a calligraphy pen". I absolutely love educating people that way and have even sold non fountain people one and sometimes two!