Not a Sumgai .. but your opinions please

[OldGriz]

Well I doubt they are a sumgai, but I also doubt I got taken.... so here is what I got coming from eBay

 

Sheaffer Jr Red Stripe .... $13.25 inc shipping

http://i4.ebayimg.com/04/i/06/5f/a7/70_1.JPG

 

Sheaffer Pen and Pencil Set Green Stripe .. $14.50 inc shipping

http://i15.ebayimg.com/04/i/06/61/ea/de_1.JPG

 

I don't have these and since I got some old lever fillers that I fell in love with, I decided to take these on also....

[Johnny Appleseed]

Excellent pens Tom - you should be very pleased. They are usually not to hard to resack, and make great writers. I don't think the green set is actually a set - I think the Pencil pairs with a different pen - but they still go nice together. I have a couple of these coming to the market someday, 1 in lever-fill, 1 in plunger.

 

Enjoy

 

John

[randyholhut]

Johnny's right. The pencil in that pair is a Craftsman. The thin gold band marks it as such.

 

Nonetheless, Griz, you made another great score. You think the folks selling pens at the bay would be on to you by now.

[OldGriz]

You think the folks selling pens at the bay would be on to you by now.

As long as I keep giving them money they ain't gonna stop me

 

I have been pretty lucky though... I figure worst case scenario, I get my money back and then some after resacking if I don't like the way they write...

[chrisb]

Nice pickups. Enjoy.

[Gatorade]

I think I actually bid on the Red Stripe Missed the ending and didn't want to burn a snipe on it. I probably would have been out bid though. I tend to look for the really cheap ones that need some work done.

[Richard]

The pencil in that pair is a Craftsman. The thin gold band marks it as such.

Not true. Right at the end of World War II, Sheaffer brought out a new line, and that "wire" band appeared on several models. The pen I show here is a Sovereign II:

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/donut_lt.jpg

 

The Craftsman name appeared on several different pens through the years; it first showed up shortly before the war on a very ordinary-looking Balance with a 1935-style flat-ball humped clip instead of the streamlined clip that better models were then wearing. The only meaningful way to ID a Craftsman, no matter what it looks like, is to examine the nib; until 1952 and the advent of the Tip-dip Touchdown pens, the Craftsman was fitted with a No. 33 nib. This pen is a true Craftsman:

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/craftsman_blk.jpg

 

The same pencil might go with more than one pen model, so there's no real way to tack the name "Craftsman" on Griz's pencil. But that pencil definitely didn't come out of Fort Madison with that pen.

[OldGriz]

Thanks everyone.... well if the pencil did not leave Sheaffer with that pen.. at least it looks to be a nice match to it.... good enough for me...