Need Help Identifying Mysterious Sheaffer, Pics Included

[slatescapes]

Purchased this pen and am looking for some help identifying it.

 

Please forgive the photos on my kitchen counter with the Beatles White Album as a makeshift light box, it's the best I could do. Do you use imgur for hosting? That's what I'm going to do.

 

https://i.imgur.com/k90GXeH.jpg

 

It has the rounded cap of a later Crest, but the cap isn't entirely gold. There's a gold band at the base of the cap and the rest is silver colored save the clip. The white dot is raised and placed above the clip, and has a gold metal ring around it. There's an imprint on the cap reading SHEAFFER - MADE IN USA on the back parallel to the gold band. The cap is lined in groups of four lines, increasing in length from two thirds of the cap length to almost the entire length of the cap.

 

 

The nib is two toned triumph, appearing to be of the welded sort but not definitively. There's a slightly visible seam at the back of the nib that isn't readily photographed. The imprint reads:

 

SHEAFFER'S

REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE

MADE IN U.S.A.

14K

0409391

 

I don't expect the number to be useful. Interestingly, the SHEAFFER'S imprint is not arced like I've seen in other examples, but straight.

 

The cap threads are at the barrel end of the section rather than the nib end. Both the section and the nib seem to be of the tapered style rather than the early more broad style. The barrel imprint appears standard, but reads:

W.A. SHEAFFER PEN CO.

FORT MADISON, IOWA, U.S.A

MADE IN U.S.A.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's the combination two tone cap with a lever filler that I'm not familiar with. Is it a frankenpen? It's wider than my snorkels, but not longer.

 

[3rdlakerobert]

This it? Sentinel Deluxe (ca 1947 or 1948)

 

http://www.acousticpens.com/blog/2016/10/22/sheaffer-triumph-vac-sentinel-deluxe-oversize-blue-b

 

Yours is a lever-fill model so you have no ink window in the section. That would mean your pen is black as I think black is the only color for lever fillers in this model.

Edited March 4, 2018 by Robert111

[slatescapes]

Yep, nailed it. Thanks! Definitely a larger pen than the 350 I bought it to replace. They're so small in my hands and this fits much better. I was worried it was a mismatched cap and body, so this makes me feel better about it. Thanks!

 

The nib is medium-broad, and writes beautifully. It'll be a great daily writer.