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Just bought this Sheaffer Stratowriter ballpoint - OK, I know, it's not a fountain pen, but it is a Sheaffer product - and I've never seen anything quite like it.

 

The cap screws on just like the capped fountain pens of the same era (late 1940s). The clip has the "bump" that distinguished ballpoints from fountain pens and pencils. The cap and barrel are metal and have rather blunt ends compared to fountain pens of the era. There is a band at the base of the barrel that is not gold/gold filled but seems to be brass and shows no signs of ever having been plated.

 

There are no markings anywhere on the pen except for Sheaffer's on the clip.

 

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Yup, a great example of innovation that never really caught on. Almost as interesting as the Parker Liquid Led pencils. IIRC it was called the StratoWriter and was in production from the late 40s through the mid 50s.

 

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Yup, a great example of innovation that never really caught on. Almost as interesting as the Parker Liquid Led pencils. IIRC it was called the StratoWriter and was in production from the late 40s through the mid 50s.

Jar, I don't mean to be difficult, but I said at the start of my post that it is a Sheaffer Stratowriter. And you are correct, the first Stratowriter, the RA-1, hit the market in 1946 and Sheaffer used the name up till about 1952, when they changed the refill - for the better. But my real curiosity here is not that, it is the very unusual cap and barrel - so unusual that I've never seen another like it. Has anyone seen another Sheaffer that resembles this one, including fountain pens as well as ballpoints?

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Jar, I don't mean to be difficult, but I said at the start of my post that it is a Sheaffer Stratowriter. And you are correct, the first Stratowriter, the RA-1, hit the market in 1946 and Sheaffer used the name up till about 1952, when they changed the refill - for the better. But my real curiosity here is not that, it is the very unusual cap and barrel - so unusual that I've never seen another like it. Has anyone seen another Sheaffer that resembles this one, including fountain pens as well as ballpoints?

John

No problem. I was just happy to remember what that refill was called.

 

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South American ? That's where a lot of the odd ones come from.

I don't think so because it was in the collection of an old Sheaffer salesman in Iowa.

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