Sheaffer pen repair box

[Hbanger]

I just received this sheaffer pen repair box it is probably 1940’s era, it certainly has the look of that time period. It needs a little tlc a small amount of glue and some clamps to tighten up a loose panel on the back and some olde English furniture polish to clean up the outside where there’s some finish wear and minor scratches, I’m thinking it’s going to clean up really nice. It will be going into use as my pen tool box since that’s what it was made for. All of the small pouches that held replacement sacs are present, I don’t know what else might have come with this kit, I don’t know much about sheaffer pen tools. If anyone has a complete one of these repair kit boxes I would really appreciate a picture, I would like to see one with all of the goodies in it. 

 

 

[joss]

very nice!

The font of the Sheaffer logo on the lid can be seen in Sheaffer advertisements from November 1924 to March 1934. That roughly dates your box to mid 1920s to mid 1930s. I guess that these boxes were provided to certain Sheaffer dealers, allowing them to do simple pen repair/maintenance, such as replacing rubber sacs.

As for the content of the box: see this Sheaffer repair box that was recently sold and which is from the same era, maybe a bit earlier, as yours. The content includes brushes, pliers, sac spreader, cleaning fluid and paper-bags with different sizes of rubber sacs. It is likely that a bottle of shellac was originally included too.

[Hbanger]

8 hours ago, joss said:

very nice!

The font of the Sheaffer logo on the lid can be seen in Sheaffer advertisements from November 1924 to March 1934. That roughly dates your box to mid 1920s to mid 1930s. I guess that these boxes were provided to certain Sheaffer dealers, allowing them to do simple pen repair/maintenance, such as replacing rubber sacs.

As for the content of the box: see this Sheaffer repair box that was recently sold and which is from the same era, maybe a bit earlier, as yours. The content includes brushes, pliers, sac spreader, cleaning fluid and paper-bags with different sizes of rubber sacs. It is likely that a bottle of shellac was originally included too.

Way cool, I sure would like some of those goodies, seeing how much that one went for I’m surprised the one I got went through two auction cycles and I was the only bidder, mine only has the paper pouches for replacement sacs, but I paid over 200 less than the one with tools in it.