Age Dating Sheaffer Pens

[jebib111]

In the past Parker coded their pens so that you could identify the year of production. I would like to know if the same can be said for Sheaffer? I am inquiring because I would like to purchase one made in the year of my birth 1950. Any help would be appreciated.

[Roger W.]

No similar dating to Parker. The thick touchdown was made 1949-1951 would be about as close as you could get.

 

Roger W.

[carlos.q]

You can start here:

http://www.fountainpen.it/Chronology

 

Then check here:

https://www.peytonstreetpens.com/sheaffer/1950s-sheaffers.html

[BaronWulfraed]

You can start here:

http://www.fountainpen.it/Chronology

 

And then look at how many names have been resurrected by one firm or another...

 

 

1975

• Ancora ceases operations

• Conway Stewart ceases operations

• Faber-Castell retires from fountain pen market

1981

• Kaweco fails and ceases production

 

The Fahrneys catalog seems to be full of Kaweco and Faber-Castell appear to have returned to fountain pens.

 

I have a Conway-Stewart 58 bought new some time in the 90s (estimate, 1999 is about when I started using Quicken, so have dates for later items, and it was mid 80s that I started buying pens via mail).

 

And in September 2005 I picked up an Ancora via Levenger (boy, I miss those days... 18K gold nib on a pen that sold for $99, and the year prior a Pelikan M605 for just $150; 11 years later and an M600 cost me $476 )