Sheaffer Imperial Model As9 C. 1958-1960

[dpeek]

To add to the minor variations what looks like a Canadian produced unit in black:

 

 

[Gadget]

An old thread but just to keep pens of a similar nature together originaly from this thread

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/373644-is-this-a-crest/#comment-4645759

 

[emetoyer]

Thanks for the snap Gold cap version. I noticed it is a slip cap which is like mine - is it still an imperial?

[RICARDOBORBA]

These pens are very common here in Brazil, because they were made here. There is also the same pen with chrome plated cap, called Imperial Silver.

[RICARDOBORBA]

There is also the All Gold version. 

[joss]

Great ads, thanks for sharing! Do you also have the publication year of these two ads?

[Gadget]

14 hours ago, RICARDOBORBA said:

These pens are very common here in Brazil, because they were made here. There is also the same pen with chrome plated cap, called Imperial Silver.

Do you have there official names or numbers ?? or where they simply Imperial Silver, Imperial Gold !! i think i am right in saying the ( AS9 ) was a factory designation which would not have been used for the buying public

[RICARDOBORBA]

Thank you for your patience. Last week I send some of Brazilian catalogs to PCA Library (https://pencollectorsofamerica.org/reference-library/sheaffer/), you can check them there.
Unfortunately I don't have the catalog that shows this earlier Imperial Pen. This pen was offered for a short time, since the Brazilian Sheaffer started to produce pens arround 1959-1960 and the 1966  advertisement shows the new design of the Imperial models.

[joss]

Those are great items, thanks for sharing!

 

I had a quick look at the catalogs and it is interesting that the 1972 Brazilian catalog still shows the old "stylised S" Sheaffer logo. Sheaffer USA advertisements show that this logo was discontinued in 1970, at least in the USA, and replaced by the white dot logo (white circle on a black square).
 

Canadian and European Sheaffer ads from the 1950s-60s listed the different Sheaffer subsidiaries: until 1959 these included, next to USA, Canada, England and Australia while from 1960 onwards it includes Sao Paulo Brazil and from 1963 onwards it includes Buenos Aires Argentina.