Sheaffer Little Red Mystery

[Anchovy]

Hi Sheaffer cognoscenti!

 

I hope you can help me with this query. I picked up a little red Sheaffer cartridge pen from a car boot sale. I can't find the model anywhere. Do you recognise this? It looks like a school pen: solid enough, lightweight, steel nib, and I'm sure it was cheap. The cap does not post because there is 19mm metal band at the end (imprinted USA); the band metal is not the same as the metal used to manufacture for the cap.

 

Is it a pen for pupils who would normally bite the end of their pens, or am I making this up?

 

Fun little writer and very robust. It's become my train journeys pen.

 

Thank you for your help!

 

Petra

[joss]

It looks like a typical Sheaffer school pen indded. These pens started appearing ca 1965 and had various slight design changes over the next 20 years or so.

Here is a pen that looks like yours, except for the shorter clip (which was the earliest version I think):

www.ebay.com/itm/233480744283

 

My guess is that the metal band at the barrel is a home made addition. Can you remove it?

[Anchovy]

Thank you, Joss.

 

I can't remove the metal band. It looks glued on but the fit is near perfect, and I didn't try removing it because it doesn't bother me - and who knows, it might have been put there by a helpful dad trying to fix a crack in the plastic. In any case the pen has survived until today.