Rare Sheaffer desk base from the mid 1920s

[joss]

I saw this neat Sheaffer desk pen base being sold on ebay. It is probably one of the earliest Sheaffer desk bases that was available. I think that it is quite rare and my bid, although considerable, was easily overcome and the base sold for a nice $140.

 

The base has two fixed sockets, one black and one red and it is shown in the 1925 Sheaffer catalog (catalog is available in the PCA library, see catalog page 13). It was originally sold as a boxed set that included this desk base plus two desk pens and a red and blue ink bottle. The red socket held a Sheaffer desk pen with black barrel and red coloured taper/quill while the black socket held a desk pen with black barrel and black taper/quill.

 

I had never seen this base in real pictures and I thought that it would be interesting to show this rare desk pen base here for future reference:

 

[Roger W.]

Joss;

The double "D" model is hard to find.  The "S" single base is almost common.  I have seen the box that the double comes in but, only one.  The "S" was even used with later sockets. The latest D went cheap as I paid $300 for this one.

Roger W.