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Starting a new thread on the first Sheaffer Touchdown pens. I'll add more over time. Please show yours!

This is a Sheaffer Valiant Touchdown Burgundy fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Valiant model featured a solid color plastic cap and barrel with gold filled trim in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $12.50, the matching pencil was $5.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $10.00.

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I just happened to find one of these "fat" touchdown pens in a lot I bought at the Ohio Pen Show last Saturday. It's black, and is looking good and working great with a new O-ring and sac. It has an open nib, I think it would be called a "Statesman"? My photography skills are not good, but maybe I'll picture it with my other fat touchdowns (burgundy Statesman and blue Sentinel) tomorrow.

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Another Valiant Touchdown in burgundy, but with a discolored white button.

 

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This is a Sheaffer Statesman Touchdown Brown fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Statesman model featured a solid color plastic cap and barrel with gold filled trim in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. The nib was a large 14 karat gold two-tone open type. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $10.00, the matching pencil was $4.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $7.00. It was the lowest price White Dot pen.

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This is a Sheaffer Statesman Touchdown Green fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Statesman model featured a solid color plastic cap and barrel with gold filled trim in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. The nib was a large 14 karat gold two-tone open type. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $10.00, the matching pencil was $4.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $7.00. It was the lowest price White Dot pen.

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This is a Sheaffer Statesman Touchdown Black fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Statesman model featured a solid color plastic cap and barrel with gold filled trim in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. The nib was a large 14 karat gold two-tone open type. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $10.00, the matching pencil was $4.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $7.00. It was the lowest price White Dot pen. Note this pen has a very flexible stub nib. You can see the chisel shape, which is actually rounded at the corners.

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Hi, Folks!

 

This is a Sheaffer Valiant Touchdown Black fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Valiant model featured a solid color plastic cap and barrel with gold filled trim in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $12.50, the matching pencil was $5.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $10.00.

 

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This is a Sheaffer Sentinel Deluxe Touchdown Green fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Sentinel Deluxe model featured a polished stainless steel cap Sheaffer called Mastermetal" with a repeating pattern of four straight longitudinal engraved lines in a stepped grouping, gold-filled cap band, gold-filled clip, and plastic barrel in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $15.00, the matching pencil was $5.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $10.00.

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This is a Sheaffer Crest DeLuxe Touchdown Black fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Crest DeLuxe model featured a gold filled cap with a repeating pattern of four straight longitudinal engraved lines in a stepped grouping, gold-filled clip, and plastic barrel in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $17.50, the matching pencil was $6.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $12.50.

 

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This Sentinel later version c. 1949 had mastermetal polished/chased cap (earlier version of the Sentinel style had brushed caps). Manufactured in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black with Touchdown sistem and only color black in lever filler. Was $30.00 complete Threesome in this leather-grained case (Pen, $15.00; Stratowriter Ballpoint, $10.00 and Pencil $5.00).

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K3yYGdA0LntfIMYfYz8M-T88k0xustPP/view?usp=sharing

 

Touchdown-Sentinel-Merry-Christmas-Lazar

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Hello everybody!

I recently got on the mail a Sheaffer Sentinel De Luxe set just like the one shown in Ramon Campos post above. There is a detail that puzzles me. Unlike the other pens shown in this thread, the white dot has a gold colored frame around it and the clip has a hemispherical protrusion at the top. Here is a picture showing it

 

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The ballpoint and mechanical pencils don't have this peculiarity. I'm afraid the cap may not belong to this pen. Perhaps someone can help identify.

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Victor.

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Hello everybody!

I recently got on the mail a Sheaffer Sentinel De Luxe set just like the one shown in Ramon Campos post above. There is a detail that puzzles me. Unlike the other pens shown in this thread, the white dot has a gold colored frame around it and the clip has a hemispherical protrusion at the top. Here is a picture showing it

 

fpn_1571952205__sheaffer_touchdown_fp_1.

 

The ballpoint and mechanical pencils don't have this peculiarity. I'm afraid the cap may not belong to this pen. Perhaps someone can help identify.

Thanks,

Victor.

Hello Victor. This pen really is an early Touchdown Sentinel Deluxe, but with the stratowriter (ballpoint) cap from the same period. The little dot on the clip means the pen is a ballpoint.

 

Best regards

 

Ricardo Borba

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Thank you Ricardo. This means I received the set with the caps switched. I appreciate your reply and clarification.

Thanks again,

Victor.

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Hi Folks!

 

This is a Sheaffer Craftsman lever fill fountain pen in Burnt Umber Brown c. 1948-1949. The pen is about 5 inches long capped and sold for $3.50. A matching pencil sold for $3.00. The 1/32 inch wide cap band, lever and SHEAFFER’S stamped clip are gold filled. The barrel is stamped W. A. SHEAFFER PEN CO. over FORT MADISON, IOWA, U.S.A over MADE IN U.S.A over 350, which indicated the $3.50 price. They were available in Black, Burnt Umber Brown, Evergreen Green, Burgundy and Persian Blue with gold trim. The nib is from a Cadet model and is stamped SHEAFFER’S over 23 over MADE IN U.S.A. over 14K.

 

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This is a Sheaffer Admiral lever fill fountain pen in Black c. 1948-1949. The pen is about 5 inches long capped and sold for $5.00. A matching pencil sold for $3.00. The 1/32 inch wide cap band, lever and SHEAFFER’S stamped clip are gold filled. The barrel is stamped W. A. SHEAFFER PEN CO. over FORT MADISON, IOWA, U.S.A over MADE IN U.S.A over 500, which indicated the $5.00 price. They were available in Black, Burnt Umber Brown, and Persian Blue with gold trim. The two-tone palladium plated gold nib is stamped SHEAFFER’S over Feather Touch over MADE IN U.S.A. over 5.

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Hi, Folks!

This is a Sheaffer Statesman Touchdown Brown fountain pen c. 1949-1950. The 5 ¼ inch pen used Sheaffer's Touchdown pneumatic filling system that used air pressure in the down stroke of the cylindrical plunger to compress the sac inside the cylinder and fill the pen. Introduced in 1949, the Touchdown was replaced by 1950 with the more slender TM or Thin Model Touchdown pens. The Statesman model featured a solid color plastic cap and barrel with gold filled trim in green, blue, brown, burgundy and black. The nib was a large 14 karat gold two-tone open type. Sheaffer offered 16 different 14 karat gold nib grades for the pen in 1949. The price in 1949 was $10.00, the matching pencil was $4.00 and the matching Stratowriter ballpoint pen was $7.00. It was the lowest price White Dot pen.

 

 

I love those fat TD Statesman models (Posts 4, 5, and 6 above) for their beautiful nibs and generous ink storage. That nib is the largest Sheaffer made since the oversize Balance pens of the 30s and early 40s.

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Afraid that is cap shrinkage.

 

That's what I feared. Was just so strange how extreme it seemed. Then again, I don't have a ton of experience with this kind of thing. Thanks!

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