Hi, guys.

I picked up these two pens years ago. They're imprinted "Sheaffer, etc" and "500". What I love about them is the funky, non-aerodynamic apparently pre-triumph nibs. They're fine points and write smooth as glass. They're keepers, and if anyone knows what model, or year they might be, I'd appreciate it. One nib is plain gold, and the other is two-tone gold/palladium(?)
Thanks

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Believe these are 1940's Triumph nib pens, not pre-triumph. The wire-rimmed line was the lowest price point celluloid family then ranging i think from $8.75 down to $2.75 or $3.75.

regards
d

Sort of an Ur-triumph, then? They are very stubby and odd looking.

Nice looking pens whatever they are called.

kurt

Thanks much. Appreciate the help

I think you might be talking about the short/squat Triumph nibs numbered 59 or 79....
There were a few interesting posts on the Zoss list about these in March : http://listarchive.consultech.net/ZossPens...ex.cgi?0::26431

Made between 1942 when the Triumph was introduced and the 1945-46 time frame when Sheaffer switched to injection molded polystyrene barrels with celluloid sections, and before 1950 when the "fat" triumph nib vanished, replaced by the TM pens.

They do look a bit strange to my eyes, being shorter and less tapered than the ones I have from the same time frame.

Peter

I think what really throws me about these things is the lack of the little winglets (canards?) which usually flank the breather on the triumph points. These don't look like anything got removed, it just got left out (at which point, I suppress a Phillip Benz joke to avoid tainting a serious discussion of an interesting oddity).

/me <3 fatty Triumphs!