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I decided to tag along with my wife at the local flea market. There were a handful of vintage fountain pens there, most of them I considered to be overpriced, but I found this little Sheaffer and took it home for $3.50.

 

I'm new to the world of fountain pens, so I don't know much about it. What would it take to get back into writing condition? The filling mechanism seems to have disintegrated over the years and the cap doesn't screw on properly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

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Hi,

 

I would email Danny Fudge at The Write Pen. He could tell you what it would need and about what it would cost. It's a nice-looking pen.

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Nice find for only $3.50!

 

It's a lever fill pen, so unless anything major is wrong, it should only need a new sac and a flush to get it going.

 

The cap could be a number of things.

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Looks very similar to my first vintage pen. Same clip, same band, about as much wear, just that mine is gray with a #5 nib. That and you got a better deal than I did.

 

Careful, you're headed down a slippery slope. All of a sudden I have two pens (not my first two) apart and waiting on parts and have my eye on two more around town. It won't be long and your wife will be tagging along with you as you peer into all of the cases and bins.

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I agree with CleosMama. Send it to Danny Fudge. Quick turnaround, professional, and reasonable pricing.

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For love of it. And yet not waste time either.

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Hi,

 

I would email Danny Fudge at The Write Pen. He could tell you what it would need and about what it would cost. It's a nice-looking pen.

 

I agree with CleosMama. Send it to Danny Fudge. Quick turnaround, professional, and reasonable pricing.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll be getting in contact with Danny Fudge soon. Looking forward to writing with this one.

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Looks very similar to my first vintage pen. Same clip, same band, about as much wear, just that mine is gray with a #5 nib. That and you got a better deal than I did.

 

Careful, you're headed down a slippery slope. All of a sudden I have two pens (not my first two) apart and waiting on parts and have my eye on two more around town. It won't be long and your wife will be tagging along with you as you peer into all of the cases and bins.

I can see that happening. There are a lot of flea markets and antique malls in this part of the country. I'm sure I'll visit them all eventually. :D My first vintage pen was also very similar, a brown Sheaffer from Ebay.

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Nice find.

I spotted a sort of red-brown one similar to yours in an antiques mall over the weekend. But the lever was missing, and there was a big chip in the cap underneath the band. And they wanted (IIRC) $20 US. :(

I passed. I also passed on every other pen I saw in the place at various booths, for one reason or another (the best pen I saw was a copper SJ with a 1550 nib -- also $20....

​Still, the fun is in the hunt. Sometimes I get lucky.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Thanks again everyone for the recommendation. I've learned that Danny Fudge will be at a pen show in Little Rock, Arkansas next week, so I've decided to take my Sheaffer and go there. I'm new to the world of fountain pens and I've never been to a pen show before, so I'm pretty excited. Any advice?

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Thanks again everyone for the recommendation. I've learned that Danny Fudge will be at a pen show in Little Rock, Arkansas next week, so I've decided to take my Sheaffer and go there. I'm new to the world of fountain pens and I've never been to a pen show before, so I'm pretty excited. Any advice?

Understand the repair is probably not a "While you wait" project. It's one of the more difficult repair jobs out there. But once restored it should be good for a quarter century or more.

 

Also, don't be surprised if Danny suggests someone else to do that repair.

 

 

 

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