I don't know whether anyone can help, but here goes: I bought a Sheaffer in the early 70's when I was in high school at my local office supply. It was unlike any I'd seen before, a White Dot, but not expensive. It was full length, fairly slim, used cartridges or converter. The barrel was maroon and tapered to a small flat end. The cap was brushed chrome with a shiny chrome clip with the white dot at the top. The cap was also fairly slim and tapered to a smooth, almost flat end with roundness. The point, which was new to me a the time, was a newer variation of what I've learned is the Triumph-type circular nib. It said "palladium" on it. I loved this pen and used it several years, until it got lost in an auto wreck. I'd love to have another like it, but I've never seen another! I've browsed sites and EBay and have yet to see a similar model. I used the Imperial Triumph pens also with the inlaid nib, still have a couple, but it was a longer, slimmer pen.

Can anyone give me a clue as to what model this would have been in the early 70's? Thanks--

Hmmm, was the nib like the one on the "Imperial II" here ? http://penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/She...erialsEarly.htm
(scroll down about 1/2 the way down the page)

Just trying to narrow down the shape of the nib.....

Yes, thanks! Looked like that, said "palladium" on it. However, the cap didn't look like any other Sheaffer cap I've seen, and not like that. The clip wasn't smoothly integrated as usual; looking from the side, it stood free at the hinge fulcrum, and there was a small amount (where the white dot rested) of the clip on the cap end of the fulcrum. It was a most efficient clip. The body of the pen wasn't as plump as the usual Imperial models I've seen, though not pencil-then, and it took standard Skrip cartridges and converter. As I said previously, it wasn't a very expensive pen, though I'm certain it cost more than the typical Parker 45 so many of us had as students. In fact, only problem I had with that pen was that over time that nib started leaking around the circumference (where metal met the plastic screw-in part). I bought a second nib and over time it started leaking in the same joint.

After looking for weeks at EBay and finding nothing, I actually found a pen set that very closely resembles mine, and I've bid on it. It is listed as "Sheaffer Stainless fountain pen set in palladium silver", item #190034907882. The pen, nib are of the same general line as the one I bought, only with a stainless barrel instead of my maroon plastic one. The clip on the EBay model is polished chrome (silver colored) where mine was gold plated. Also, you'll notice this one is not a white dot where mine had the white dot.

Can any of my FP friends tell me what line this is? Very attractive, very comfortable to write for long periods (I wrote for hours in college with this). I'm planning to win this one.

Your pen is a later-model Stylist. The Stylist was initially produced in the '60s with a two-sided flippable nib; here's one of my Stylists, illustrating this configuration:



(Yes, that's a chalk mark on the upper side of the barrel.)

Later Sheaffer began making Stylists with Triumph nibs; for this they used the "mini" nibs that had initially appeared in the '50s on the Skripsert line. I don't have one of these later Stylists, but I probably will...

Thank you so much, Bindermeister!!!

FYI,

FPN member "nemrod" posted a pen identification question today about the same model of pen (with the same short Triumph nib) as yours, johnr55.

Here is that FPN thread: http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...ST&f=30&t=16748
(edit: there are pictures of Nemrod's pen in the link above)