First Finds

[skwerlmasta]

My girlfriend and I went to a small flea market and we found a few pens. We bought these 3 for 35 dollars total:

A Sheaffer Lifetime Triumph. We've flushed the pen and everything appears to work. We haven't yet inked it. The pen appears to have an oblique nib.

A Sheaffer Touchdown Triumph (another forum member helped me to identify it) Tuckie. Everything appears to be functional on the pen but the ink sac is gone, so we're going to have to send this one away for repairs. But it's a beauty:

And this is a Venus President. This one is pretty rough. The threads that hold the cap on are cracking. But it has a flex nib.

 

We'd like to polish them a little but are unsure how to. We might send both of the Sheaffers to a professional.

3 14k nibs, one of them a flex, for 35 bucks. Not to bad

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Edited March 4, 2018 by skwerlmasta

[mitto]

Congrats. Beautiful pens you have got there. Get them restored and enjoy writing with them.

[skwerlmasta]

Thanks.

Until now, we only bought pens online and, then, mostly modern pens. It was a small town flea market, so we were pretty happy to find them.