It is marked LIFETIME on the nib.
No White dot on the pen. Blind cap replaced?
The Lifetime imprint is different than any other Lifetime Triumph nibs I have ,as well.
An incredibly fine smooth nib, by the by.

875 Price Code
Steve

That does seem at least a few kinds of wacky.

Most Crests were 1750.

So it's the whole body of the pen, not just the blind cap.

So it's a Crest cap on a different body. But I had heard the Crest caps only fit Crests... or perhaps that was just the early Crest, where the threads were down at the end of the gripping section? Could the later Crest caps be switched out with a non-Crest cap?

I suspect that the gold cap has been brought in from some other pen. I seem to recall that the Crest was always a more expensive pen than that-- $12.50 or $15.00 is what's dancing in my memory. I've got a couple of pens in the same sort of state; one has a white dot at either end (two-lifetime guarantee, one could argue). None of which makes it a less attractive pen.

edit- ah, look, take your time typing and someone else jumps in. I have been able to swap a later Crest cap with a... well, it's mostly a Valiant, I think, and I've a Sentinel which will take on the same gold cap.

Thanks guys.

El M I am now more confused. Not your fault at all. There are seemingly endless varieties/variations of Sheaffer pens.
I know DK all for a reason.

Ernst My error. This pen is in a set w/ a pencil with matching caps and box.

I'm ,ahem, heading out for an, ahem,date :-) yeah it's a big deal I'm nearly 50

I'll get some more pics asap.
Hopefully not until late tonight

Steve

Regardless of what it is it's a darn fine looking pen. The question is how does it write?

Probably via one filling it with ink and then applying a minimum of pressure to the point to generate ink flow largely via gravity and capillary action

-d

No updates from you to this thread for two day leads me to think that you got lucky?

Oh.. incidentally, I think your pen is most likely a marriage of parts.
I doubt you care very much right now

As a gentleman I shall not divulge any of the details of my date. Suffice to say...

A few more details and more photos.
There is NO price code? No white dot anywhere?
It is in a set though?

I'm going with a replaced blind cap. Dissenters?

Steve

The pencil is probably from an early Tuckaway set. The "cut cap" that allows removal of the top half to expose the eraser is relatively unfrequent. The box is too small for the fountain pen: it is probably a Tuckaway box.
About the cap-body match in the fountain pen, common wisdom says it is a cap switch. However, I have found a number of Brown Stripe Triumph Crests without the white dot. I own two at present. Is it possible that Sheaffer assembled them this way at some point?
Whatever it is, this is one of the most gloriously beautiful pens ever. By all means have it repaired.

The box is, I think, too small for that pen. The pencil (Tuckaway, 2nd model) and box seem to belong together, but not the pen.

The replaced blind cap seems like the best theory to explain the (stand-alone) pen.

Regards, greg

Earlier, you wrote "875 Price Code".

Price code or no price code?

--Daniel

no code

Maybe the whole barrel/blind cap assembly was replaced?

Steve

I don't see why this couldn't simply be the cap from a Crest Triumph on a (non-Crest) Triumph barrel.

--Daniel

me neither !

Thanks

Steve