Sheaffer Snorkel In The Spy Museum

[moif]

Let me start off by saying I am NOT a huge vintage pen buff. There are only a few pens that I can actually recognize if I see them "in the wild", so whenever I do correctly recognize a pen, it makes my day, especially if they are in places I didn't expect to find them.

 

I had the pleasure of visiting the Spy Museum in Washington DC today, and there were quite a few fountain pens! Most of them weren't really fountain pens, as in, they were other tools in disguise. I couldn't recognize them as being modeled after anything I was familiar with, and none of them had any kind of company insignia that I could see.

 

But the spy museum also has an entire section devoted to James Bond. And apparently in one of the movies (I have not seen most of them) there is a pen that hides a poison filled syringe. I learned this via a sign below... a blue sheaffer snorkel. I recognized it immediately, as sheaffer is the brand I recognize easiest. The hilarious part - they had the snorkel extended, the implication being that the snorkel was the poison filled syringe! What a deception and within the spy museum itself! So funny.

 

I just looked up the actual pen from the movie too - looks nothing like a sheaffer snorkel, haha. Maybe modeled on some other fountain pen, but not one I know of off the top of my head.

 

Edit:: I remembered I took a picture! I have attached. The lighting in the museum wasn't great though, and we couldn't use flash. It was a very light blue in person.

 

Edited October 21, 2018 by moif

[mac.kozinsky]

Hi Moif! And thanks for the info.

 

Which movie does the info next to the Snorkel says it was used in? Moonraker poison pen doesn't seem to be a Snorkel ... Have you got a picture of the sign/info that is next to the pen?

 

BR,

M.

 

EDIT: OK. All clear, I guess ...

 

Edited October 21, 2018 by mac.kozinsky

[moif]

Yea, doesn't actually say it specifically was used in a movie, just that it's their example of a concealed weapon like what's been used in Bond movies. Which is part of why it's so funny to me. They could have actually tried to make something that looked more like the one from the movie, but they just stuck a snorkel in there, because they figured most people wouldn't know the difference, haha.