Sheaffer Legacy 1 Demonstrator Nib Section

[PenHero]

Fellow collectors,

This is something I saw at the Triangle Pen Show that knocked my socks off. I have not previously seen or even knew about a Sheaffer Legacy Demonstrator nib section.

http://www.penhero.com/Temp/SheafferLegacyDemoNib01PT.jpg

I put it on a Sheaffer Legacy King's Gold as I thought that would be a cool pen for it. As there are no clear resin barrels or caps for the Legacy outside of fantasy pens, the section probably never equated to a full demo model pen.

You can see that technically, this is a Legacy 1 section. Note the three "pips" that the cap grips to when the cap is on. I'll probably need to round up a Legacy 1 pen to photograph it further.

http://www.penhero.com/Temp/SheafferLegacyDemoNib02PT.jpg

Note the huge feed on this section.

http://www.penhero.com/Temp/SheafferLegacyDemoNib03PT.jpg

Also the tabs that extend into the shell to hold the nib in place.

http://www.penhero.com/Temp/SheafferLegacyDemoNib04PT.jpg

Finally, for the purists - here it is on a more appropriate Legacy 1 pen:

http://www.penhero.com/Temp/SheafferLegacyDemoNib05PT.jpg

A really cool find!

Jim Mamoulides

www.PenHero.com

[jmccarty3]

Beautiful and most unusual!

[ArchiMark]

Very cool, Jim....Thanks for sharing it!

 

Would go for a couple of these if they were available.....

 

 

Mark

[ink-syringe]

That is awesome!

 

I want to see it inked.

[zaddick]

That's very nice. Thank you for sharing.

[PenHero]

I actually thought about inking it. I would be concerned about staining it. This is a rare case where I would leave something mint if I intended to keep it.

[jmccarty3]

I agree completely. This is too rare to take a chance on staining it.

[FredRydr]

I actually thought about inking it. I would be concerned about staining it. This is a rare case where I would leave something mint if I intended to keep it.

 

That's the problem with demonstrators. The ink gets into threads, nooks and crannies and they're ugly after one use. You should consider it a collector piece and show it off, often!

 

Fred

[ink-syringe]

I'd Ink it, use it, & stain it.

 

You can't take it with you.

 

 

 

We'll all be gone soon anyway.

[Pincel]

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Finally, for the purists - here it is on a more appropriate Legacy 1 pen:

http://www.penhero.com/Temp/SheafferLegacyDemoNib05PT.jpg

A really cool find!

Jim Mamoulides

www.PenHero.com

 

 

So jealous, I wanted to convert my Black PFM III similarly that last weekend, I bid on this (eBay item# 301651096023).

 

I waited on the last 8 seconds before end time to confirm my max bid of $59.10. Yikes, my bid didn't even register!!! Winning bid was $202.49. I wonder how much Jim paid for his rare find?

Edited June 8, 2015 by BeRa

[FredRydr]

We'll all be gone soon anyway.

 

"Soon"? Do you know something the rest of us should?

 

Fred

[ink-syringe]

 

"Soon"? Do you know something the rest of us should?

 

Fred

 

 

The Solar System is 4.5 billion years old and humans have existed for only a few million years and the average human life of us first worlders is what? 75-ish? a mere blip.

 

War, climate change, nuclear mishaps, etc. how much longer you think any of us are going to be on this little blue marble?

 

Ink it

 

Use it.

 

Enjoy.

[PenHero]

Since I have many other Legacy nibs to play with and this one is one of a very few clear ones, I'll pass on inking it. There is nothing unusual about it other than the clear resin shell.

 

Thanks!

[AAAndrew]

If I inked it, I'd make sure and use something non staining and easily washed like Sheaffer blue or waterman

[terim]

Funny, we just acquired a similar Legacy 1 with a demonstrator section!

 

http://www.peytonstreet.com/pens/sheaffer/leg1_demo_section_1.jpg

http://www.peytonstreet.com/pens/sheaffer/leg1_demo_section_4.jpg

 

Ours looks a little less tidy because we used shellac to seal it.

 

TERI

[PenHero]

Hi, Teri,

 

I actually only acquired the nib section. I already have several Legacy 1 pens.

 

Seems like some interesting stuff is showing up now that Sheaffer service is no longer in Fort Madison.

[Pincel]

http://www.peytonstreet.com/pens/sheaffer/leg1_demo_section_4.jpg

Ours looks a little less tidy because we used shellac to seal it.

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How did you manage to reseal nib section? Ron Zorn said, "... Sheaffer glued the Legacy sections together. You can't disassemble the writing unit, which I think is really dumb." I suppose you know something Ron doesn't.

 

 

Edited June 11, 2015 by Haribon

[terim]

 

http://www.peytonstreet.com/pens/sheaffer/leg1_demo_section_4.jpg

Ours looks a little less tidy because we used shellac to seal it.

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How did you manage to reseal nib section? Ron Zorn said, "... Sheaffer glued the Legacy sections together. You can't disassemble the writing unit, which I think is really dumb." I suppose you know something Ron doesn't.

 

 

 

 

I'd never claim to know something Ron doesn't, but I think he might have been referring to the actual gold part that is inset into the plastic shell. The rest of the components unscrewed.

[Pincel]

 

I'd never claim to know something Ron doesn't, but I think he might have been referring to the actual gold part that is inset into the plastic shell. The rest of the components unscrewed.

 

Here's the complete passage from Ron: "Sheaffer glued the Legacy sections together. You can't disassemble the writing unit, which I think is really dumb. Rather hard to straighten a bent nib if you can't pull the feed out."

 

It appears to me that he wants to take out the feed, connector and clutch ring, leaving the the shell with the inlaid nib empty. This is easily done with the PFM but not with Legacy writing unit (section) which "glued." Hope Ron comes to enlighten us.

[terim]

When we got ours, the unit was not sealed at all. It could be that the original Sheaffer-sealed units cannot be disassembled. I know ours can, cuz we used shellac.