Sheaffer Targa Laque Emerald

[sticksave]

Hi all I have a Sheaffer Targa Laque Emerald 1067a Im trying to find out if this a rare pen and it value

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Neal

 

[jar]

It's certainly one of the prettier laques. Not sure it is really rare or particularly valuable.

[sexauerw]

Neal,

The model 1067a is at least scarce, if not rare. Sheaffer made about 250 or so of them but most of them failed quality control checks and were destroyed. Only 60 were left and were released for sale. However, looking at your photo, I'm not sure that your pen is a 1067a, it looks like a 1086 to me. I think the 1067a had a wider cap band than yours has.

 

Gary Ellison has a great Targa reference website at http://www.sheaffertarga.com. If you go there, click on "Enter Site", (don't worry, you don't need an account or password) then on "Targa Reference" and then on "Master Ref List" you will see a list of all of the Targa models with thumbnail images. There is a "more" link for each one that links to a larger image of the full pen. That's where I got the idea that the cap bands were a bit different on the two pens. The only other difference that I know of is that the green color is darker on the 1067a than on the 1086. If you could put the two side-by-side I think it would be quite clear which was which. But photographing these and getting the colors true is very difficult. So, not being able to tell by the color in the photograph I can only go by the cap band in your photo and in Gary's.

 

As to value, I have never seen a 1067a nor even seen a sales listing for one and I've been looking for over 15 years because that's a pen that I don't have in my Targa collection. So I can't begin to even guess at a value. The 1086 pens seem to go for $250-$300 so I'm pretty sure the 1067a would be worth substantially more. But how much more I can't say.

[mariom]

I agree that it must be a 1086 based solely on the width of the bands, both cap and end. A beautiful pen either way.

[mitto]

I agree that it must be a 1086 based solely on the width of the bands, both cap and end. A beautiful pen either way.

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[sticksave]

Thanks for the clarification everyone