OK. So i have a couple-few hundred Sheaffers lying about, and i've had the pleasure to peruse ebay regularly daily for 10 years and to handle thousands (tens of thousands?) of Balances at pen shows over the years.

So, you can bet i was intrigued to find one I hadn't seen before.

I grabbed the barrel to go with the cap (the cap was a lone piece), but the cap itself has couple unusual features. Well, at least two i'm aware of. One makes it the first of this sort of cap i've seen. The second oddity perhaps is bit less impressive.

regards

david


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It doesn't have the bird splat on the top?

Oh wait, I thought this was the Montblanc forum.

Sigh, bird splat is so gauche. We cognescenti prefer the more sophisticated expression... Guano Splotch.

-david

I just have a few Sheaffer's from this era but the differences I see from mine are that the barrel does not have metal threads and the cap ring does not go all the way to the bottom of the cap.

Hi,

Nope, Balance has plastic threads. Slightly later Triumph era pens have metal threads... and cap ring that extends to lip.


The two key things on this Balance are 1) the very wide gold-filled (not "Autograph" solid gold) cap-band- first i've seen and 2) a short radius clip on a long cap; i'd expect a long clip on long cap.

d