I am almost positive that this pen is a Crest. It is a $15.00 pen, silver cap with gold clip and "center band stripe" on the cap. The cap appears to be smooth as there is no trace of a design, but the cap is well used. Its in good shape and has no damage per say, but well worn.

Now the rest of the pen is line none I have seen myself. It is a black lever fill with a white dot on the tip of the body end. However, the pen is a lever filler and has a triumph nib. The nib is a two tone 14k nib marked "Sheaffers Lifetime 14k"

So what is this, is it an early Crest? What was the deal with the lever fill? I never knew they had the lever fill with the triumph nibs? Anyone know off hand what size sac it should have? (just because I am to lazy to break out the calipers and measure)



This nib, after some cleaning and a polish, is near mint with a 100% silver plating mask still on it!

I have seen only one Crest before, but that was several years ago. Like you, I am almost positive that this is an early Crest. Hopefully, I can find some photos I have of an early Crest I have on an old CD. This should confirm my suspicions.

Interesting, I recently bought a pen much like this myself and was wondering the same thing!

Lever fill, with triumph nib! though mine has a black cap with a wire band along the rim, not a metal one.

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Hi,

Firefyter-Emt, I'm reasonably sure you've got a Sentinel there, c. 1946-7. The White Dot is at the barrel end because Sheaffer didn't begin placing it on metal caps until 1948. This model was indeed made in a lever-fill version.

You might want to have a look at this thread, which discusses a pen that's a marriage of your barrel and a cap from a different model (Valiant).

The Crest, by the way, had an all-gold-filled cap.

Cheers,

Jon

Hi,

It's not a Crest, though it carried similar price.

The lever filler did appear on 1940's Triumph-nibbed pens, though plunger fill is more common.

Whilst i haven't all the 1940's names on tip of tongue, and i was just whomped by a particularly evil night shift at ze hospital, vague recollection (assuming this is the larger size pen) is that this is Sovereign Deluxe. Or mayb Statesman Deluxe. Daniel no doubt will firm that up if i don't.

regards

d

Just a bump to see if anyone (Daniel maybe) can confirm David's choices.

This pen has such a nice nb, not just in condition, but in a med / fine line and super smooth!

It's a Sentinel Deluxe circa 1947, model symbol 39T-X, if memory serves.

--Daniel

Awesome, thanks Daniel!

It has been my understanding that the pen models with the white dot at the end of the pen at the tip opposite the nib, are considered Crest pens. These pens are more common with the plunger-piston filler than the lever filler. These have a very nice triumph nib and this one has a lifetime. These are great pens and write very nicely. Based on the type of cap you might add further description, ie. sentinel, ect. I think this is a Crest model fountain pen based on the location of the white dot. Regards, Mark

Not so. "Crest" indicates a certain cap style, as does "Sentinel", and they are mutually exclusive. This pen is not a Crest. The location of the White Dot only indicates that the pen bears a metal cap and was made prior to about mid-March of 1948.

--Daniel