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Sheaffer Lever Filler Plus Inlaid Nib? Waaaah?


eharriett

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I was trolling everyones favorite auction site and saw a guy from Serbia selling this. Is it legit? I grant you I still have so ....... so much to learn about the hobby. But I did not think Sheaffer ever made a lever filler with an inlaid nib a la Imperial.

 

If legit, please tell me more about it. And happy bidding, I suppose. A bit too rich for my blood when I dont know what Im looking at.

 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F333393085342

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That is an interesting Frankenpen, barrel is Sheaffer, but the lever seems to be recovered from somewhere, nib of course is a Sheaffer inlaid nib recovered from a Targa or Imperial, the clip seems to come from a Montblanc, I do not known the rest of the cap.

 

The final effect is good :D

 

Alfredo

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The opening for the lever box appears to be carved out of the barrel. The two narrow cap rings are glued onto the cap in a very rude way. The clip has a style that reminds me of Montblanc.

 

It is a Frankenpen Deluxe.

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It is a franken pen. Sheaffer never made a lever filler using an inlaid nib. That is a Sheaffer desk pen nib, and may have been made for a Touchdown filler pen, so may have had a thread bushing with a sac nipple on it. The barrel is Sheaffer, used in the Craftsman etc line. You can indeed thread the nib unit into some of them (I tried), or slip them and and use shellac to secure it. Who cares if you're making a fake pen, right? No idea what the cap is, the barrel is a Sheaffer of some sort. The lever looks like the Waterman style lever box units that Joe Cali had made up years ago.

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