The Sheaffer Cartridge Pen

[Beechwood]

I know that I am easily please but this early Sheaffer cartridge pen arrived this morning and it is a sweetie!

 

Nice fine nib, still has the "insert yellow end first" cartridge inside it and the coolest green, nice unusual nib too

 

 

[ZeissIkon]

Those were and are very nice pens -- especially for the price (still a dollar well into the 1970s).

[Univer]

Hi,

 

I yield to no-one in my admiration of the "basic" Cartridge Pen - the model that often sold for $1.00 - but I just want to point out that this specific pen is the upmarket cousin of that model. At its introduction, its MSRP was $5.00 (and the model is in fact referred to - sometimes - as the Skripsert 500).

 

Better writers, all of them, than they had any right to be!

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

 

PS The yellow-ended cartridges are definitely early production; it became a Sheaffer talking point, after the design changed, that the cartridge could be dropped into the barrel either-end-first.

[Beechwood]

Thanks Jon, the nib looked very much the same a Lady Skripsert of mine from the mid 50s.

 

This green example has F8 on the nib and performed first time after having sat quietly for 30 plus years

[jar]

The basic cartridge pens and their uptown cousins are still among the best value out there. I adore them and one of the first version clear balance bodied cartridge pens sits proudly among the PFMs on the top self of a display box.

[Spitzner]

I agree--the old Sheaffer CFs were among the most reliable, starts-with-no-fuss pens ever. I include the OS No Nonsense in that description; it's what I give someone who expresses an interest in trying fountain pens. And it's always a hit.

 

Pam

[Skyppere]

Very pretty! Congrats... I like it a lot!

skyppere