Sheaffer Pearlie Pencil: Another Variation?

[joss]

I have a Sheaffer pearlie pencil with a balance-like flat ball clip and I am soliciting on your ideas on whether that is uncommon or not.

 

Jon Veley's pencil museum shows 5 different versions of the Sheaffer Pearlie but all have straight clips (www.jonathanveley.com/mechanical-pencil-museum?id=61).

 

He later identified two additional variations (version "6" and "7") described here:

 

http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.be/2011/12/sheaffer-pearlies-part-i-and-then-there.html

 

http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.be/2011/12/sheaffer-pearlies-part-2-and-then-there.html

 

The 6th variation also has a straight clip but the 7th one has a balance-like humped flat ball clip with a "Sheaffer Jr" imprint.

 

My Pearlie is identical to the 7th variation, except for the clip imprint which says "Sheaffer's" (see pictures below) and for the decorative gold ring just above the pearlie part of the barrel. The black part of the barrel is ribbed from top to bottom and there is no imprint on that part.

 

So could this be the 8th variation of the Sheaffer Pearlie?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kirchh]

These are cataloged and not particularly unusual, in my experience, though I don't focus on pencils. I think they appear in Sheaffer's 1939 catalog, which can be viewed in the PCA Library.

 

--Daniel