Help With My First Sheaffer Id

[mactoll]

Hello Sheaffer Forum,

 

Got my first vintage Sheaffer pen on Ebay ($9.99).

I was attracted by the striated coloring.

It was posted as a "Sheaffer Feather Touch 500".

 

As you can see it is grey/green striated. Lever filler.

No "Sheaffer" on the clip. No dot.

The nib says Feather Touch and is a number 5.

length (capped) 5 3/8 in., cap width ~.5 in at widest.

 

There is a 500 below the Sheaffer engraving on the body (that did not photo too well).

 

I can find that a "Sheaffer 500' was an actual model; to me it looked like a Balance maybe?

Any help much appreciated

 

JM

 

p.s. I hope the sac isn't too hard to replace because it is disintegrated

[pen lady]

500 wasn't the model number it was the price the pen sold for back in the mid to late 30's. Nice looking pen and you can find more information on Richard Binder's site, search for Sheaffer Balance. They are pretty straightforward to re-sac as long as the pressure bar hasn't rusted. Yours has a nice clear visulated (clear) section, just watch out for the breather tube when you put the sac on. You don't want to get shellac on the end of it. Good luck.

[kirchh]

500 wasn't the model number it was the price the pen sold for back in the mid to late 30's. Nice looking pen and you can find more information on Richard Binder's site, search for Sheaffer Balance. They are pretty straightforward to re-sac as long as the pressure bar hasn't rusted. Yours has a nice clear visulated (clear) section, just watch out for the breather tube when you put the sac on. You don't want to get shellac on the end of it. Good luck.

 

Note that though there may be a bit of a tail to the feed, there is no breather tube in this pen. Sheaffer did not use breather tubes in its Balance lever-fillers; they were one-stroke fillers.

 

--Daniel

[pen lady]

Yet again Daniel I learn from you! I thought that "thingy" was called a breather tube, but of course, it isn't tubular is it - silly me! Now I know to call it a feed-tail.

Edited October 27, 2014 by pen lady