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I picked up this black flat top this week. The feed and section look different from my jade flat top, or any other flat top I've seen in photos, so I'm assuming that I have some kind of franken pen here. I'm just wondering what different parts it's made from.

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The Visulated pens with last drop visibility section is from 1936 and your feed even later, so Balance times, but considering that, although uncatalogued, they continued manufacturing and selling flat tops, we can´t be sure that this particular fountain pen come out so, or not, from factory after 1936 with barrel and cap from old stocks. If I were forced to take opinion, personally I wouldn´t consider it a frankenspen, rather a delayed flat top..

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Likely a replacement nib/feed/section; this could well have happened under Sheaffer's Lifetime guarantee.

 

--Daniel

"The greatest mental derangement is to believe things because we want them to be true, not because we observe that they are in effect." --Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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Likely a replacement nib/feed/section; this could well have happened under Sheaffer's Lifetime guarantee.

 

--Daniel

 

Although anything is possible in Pendon and I discard nothing, the fountain pen has a number of conditions that, analyzed jointly, give very limited chance for your option, namely:

 

A. The round ball humped clip tells us of a later flat top.

 

B. Sheaffer´S nib is not easy to break into Lifetime guarantee coverage as Walter liked to show.

http://s28.postimg.org/6trqevh3h/1922_07_15_Noble_Sheaffer_S_Lazard.jpg

C. Sheaffer´S section is not easy to break.

 

D. The possibilities of breaking nib and too its section in the same item is more scarce.

 

E. Possibility of breaking nib and too its section leaving intact its barrel (flat top) and cap (flat top) is hard to believe.

 

F. Possibility of breaking nib and too its section leaving intact its barrel (flat top) and cap (flat top) and that Sheaffer don´t have during repair adequate flat top nib nor section stock is much more unlikely.

 

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Marketing hyperbole aside, a simple drop on a hard surface can easily damage a Lifetime nib and mar the feed and/or section.

 

--Daniel

"The greatest mental derangement is to believe things because we want them to be true, not because we observe that they are in effect." --Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Daniel Kirchheimer
Specialty Pen Restoration
Authorized Sheaffer/Parker/Waterman Vintage Repair Center
Purveyor of the iCroScope digital loupe

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