Balance is my second most collected series, following Vacumatic.

Unlike the Vac, i don't hunt Balance with... completist... goals, but I do like adding high-cachet and-- better still-- anomalous pens.

This one i found right here on FPN. Not of sky-high value but still very interesting and not of small value

A Sheaffer oversized Balance in Ebonized Pearl celluloid... with a twist.

regards

david

Feathertouch 7?

George

MmmHmmm...

-d

Yet another beauty. The more I see the more I want...

Thanks But note this one not just about the "eyecandy". It is... interesting

regards

d

I know,I know

But I will let you guys continue guessing.

Is this the one with the telephone dialer end?? I cannot tell from David's image, but recall there was something different about this pen from discussions with the previous owner.

Cheers,
Sean

Wrong thread, Sean

The other pen (also not quite a phone dialer) is one thread away from this.

The ebonized pearl (i'd love to find a dialer there. Don't exist TBOMK) has its own, but different, charm... no joke.

regards

d

Will have to check the other thread then. I am interested in what is different about this pen, as I need to expand my knowledge of Balance esoterica.

Cheers,
Sean

OS.

non-WD

and there ya go

d

The world is full of little dots

Hey where did they go to ?




Do you think they will get it David ?

So it is a rarity to find OS in a feather touch?

Funny how the mind works, I would have never noticed that little dot was missing in a 100 years unless I had two pens side by each. Yes, that is so obvious now, never heard of an OS Balance which was not white dot.

Cheers,
Sean

Feather Touch is part of it. The pen also is non White Dot.

OS's are catalogued as White Dot pens with Lifetime nibs.

regards

david

I did not know that all OS pen were supposed to be White Dot, so I saw nothing unusual about a non white dot pen having a non Lifetime nib. Would you care to speculate as to why this one came about? Maybe it was ordered with a Feather touch nib by someone wanting to save money by not paying extra for a warranty he did not plan to use.

Maybe someone put the wrong nib as replacement.

Nope. The nib is not unexpected, given what is the pen.

-david

I don't know that I've ever seen a lever-filling ebonized pearl before.

Hi,


Most found are LF's

The non-WD cap and appropriate non-Lifetime nib are the deviations from "usual".

OS's are catalogued only in white dot trim.

regards

david

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

Well David I am really happy you are happy with this pen.
I am glad it got to a place it will be appreciated.
As for me I got the pen I was dreaming of for a long time the Mont Blanc Alexander Dumas LE.

I will miss these 2 pens

Thus the win-win of collector dealings

-d

david, tell me please was this color and this balance model available as a plunger fill in oversize????

It was. I have a bunch in the repair pipeline as we speak.

regards

d

Yep. Non-WD with non-Lifetime nbi go hand in hand.

Finding that cocktail in an OS is what is funky.

Speculation abounds. But, tbomk no solid info out there.

I concede doubts Sheaffer would whip this up for a tiny order.

Could it have been a way to blow out end-of-run color (i have doubts on that score)?

Or small-ish run for special market, recognizing this is a bit nebulous?

regards

d

Or maybe it was just a standard, albeit small production model run that they never bothered to catalog.

Found this thread on Zoss. That's some amazing pen.

I've had the oversize Balances without white dots, but only in black, and they all had Feather Touch 8 nibs, rather than 7. I've only seen the FT 7 nibs in the next-size-down pen. So I'd have expected this one to have the FT 8 nib, but as you say, they could make sections to accept the smaller nib and feed, so have no doubt it came this way, for whatever reason. The size probably wasn't all that different, since both nibs by this time in Sheaffer's nib-making history were pretty narrow at the tail.

Nice item, David, thanks!
Rob