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I was looking for the lines of Sheaffer pens who came at one time or another with the Triumph nib. Tell me if I am wrong, but it seems like Sheaffer used to name some its lines in reference to design innovations. The "Triumph" line for the Triump nib, Touchdown and Snorkel lines for the filling systems. Am I forgetting other ones ? Is that typical of the 1940's, 1950's lines ?

 

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Dear Denis,

 

Sheaffer seemed to have a knack for "self named" pens, based on style, features or filling systems.

 

The names I can think of are:

 

Lifetime - 1920 and 1963 - For the warranty

Balance - For the shape

Autograph - For the wide solid gold cap band

Vacuum-Fil - A subbrand named for the plunger filling system

Fineline - For a new finer line pencil

Tuckaway - For a pocket pen

Triumph - For the nib (as you pointed out)

Touchdown - Named for the filling system

TM - Thin Model - named for the shape

Signature - For the narrow solid gold cap band

Snorkel - Named for the filling system

Tip-Dip - Named for the filling system

Cartridge Pen - Named for the filling system

Compact Cartridge Pen - Named for the size

Stylpoint / Glideriter / Smoothie / Soft Stroke - Named for the tip

Twin well - Named for the ink reservoir

DeltaGrip - Named for the triangular section - though not all had this!

 

This type of naming seems to tail off in the 1980s with Sheaffer's shift to nostalgic pens, but surfaces again in 2004 with two models: Agio Compact and Prelude Compact - both very short pocket pens.

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