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Does anyone know the dimensions and weight of this Sheaffer and if modern cartridges and/or converters fit it? I've found a fair bit of info online but not answers to these questions.

 

I just bought a Paisley Periwinkle with a BB Triumph nib from PSP so my cart is firmly before the horse. :)

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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Any info on dimensions and weight? Or a comparison? This is my first vintage Sheaffer.

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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I have a couple of Lady Sheaffers, and while I'm bad with exact dimensions, they're slim, and of light-medium heft. One of mine (from fleabay) has a Triumph-type nib that someone evidently tried to straighten. @_@

 

Still writes, though. I use cartridges.

 

BB? I'm jealous! ;)

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I thought, being a Lady fou-fou pen, it'd be pretty light; I'm glad to know it's not short, too,

 

It was the BB that convinced me to go ahead and buy it without knowing the salient information. Plus it's purty. ;) Thanks, both of you, for the help.

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Thanks, Elaine! The Lady arrived (lovely, indeed!) and my thought that it would be similar in size and weight to a Parker 45 was correct. I'm loving the BB nib - it's very smooth.

 

The hubs took a look at it and said, "Someone bent the nib. Can you fix it?" My explanation that it was supposed to be up-curved was met with a blank look and a head shake.

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I have a Lady Sheaffer VIII, and that will take the old style squeezey converters but the new screw-fill ones are too big. Sheaffer cartridges are fine.

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The hubs took a look at it and said, "Someone bent the nib. Can you fix it?" My explanation that it was supposed to be up-curved was met with a blank look and a head shake.

 

Alas. Perhaps he has a hobby or interest in which unlikely things happen that you can shake for an analogy (the proliferation of bizarre putters in golfing, the non-roundness of North American footballs...)?

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Because it seems there is no consistency from one roman numeral Lady Sheaffer to the next, and we know converters are important, we treat every Lady Sheaffer as unique and test it with all available and unavailable converters. Alas, this double broad monster wouldn't work with any of our converters. .... we even tried button converters and the early early Skrip piston converter. Sheaffer was really pushing cartridges!

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Thanks, Elaine! The Lady arrived (lovely, indeed!) and my thought that it would be similar in size and weight to a Parker 45 was correct. I'm loving the BB nib - it's very smooth.

 

The hubs took a look at it and said, "Someone bent the nib. Can you fix it?" My explanation that it was supposed to be up-curved was met with a blank look and a head shake.

 

Sinistral1 has tweaked mine a little and it writes beautifully, so I gave it to her for Christmas, what a great pen,

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Thanks, Teri. I love the pen (oh, that nib!) and have a few Sheaffer carts and plenty of syringes with which to refill them. Did I mention that I love that big, juicy nib?

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Thanks, Teri. I love the pen (oh, that nib!) and have a few Sheaffer carts and plenty of syringes with which to refill them. Did I mention that I love that big, juicy nib?

The nib really was spectacular, and worth the trouble refilling cartridges ..... But knowing how much ink it lays down, I bet you are doing a lot of syringe work!

 

So glad to know you are enjoying the nib.

 

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