Information required on Sheaffer Student Pen Model

[meghashyam75]

Hi guys, 

I need information urgently did Sheaffer ever produce student fountain pens where the cap and barrel was black matte finish. Plz see uploaded pic and advise me if this one is authentic. Looking forward to hearing from you at the earliest.

[inkstainedruth]

Not seeing any image....

Also, while not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, I have only seen Sheaffer school pens with metal caps.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA -- Or are you talking about Sheaffer No Nonsense pens (like this blue one I found a photo of online: https://www.ebay.com/itm/254749226505)

which is a completely different size and shape from the ones I have (which are more like these: https://www.peytonstreetpens.com/sheaffer-school-pen-assortment-5-pens-various-models-mixed-nibs-colors-d.html)

 

[meghashyam75]

Thank you. I attached the pics. It's a sheaffer cartridge fountain school and not the no-nonsense edition. Looks like it's been painted.

[Penguincollector]

There’s two things about it that I can’t quite place. The two rings, usually school pens just have the one- at least the ones I had in different iterations did, and the colored cap- is it painted or laquered metal, or is it plastic? It’s possible that it was a model produced in a factory located abroad for that local market only. 

[mrcharlie]

The nib section looks identical to an economy/student cartridge pen. The clutch ring (at the base of the section; holds the cap on via friction) is the thinner one that started in the 1980s sometime until the end of production in the 1990s. However, as Penguincollector noted, none of the years of the economy/student cartridge pen had a second ring at the base of where the cap edge sits. So I think it is more than just a painted cap. As someone who has 40+ examples of the economy/student Sheaffer.

 

I've never seen this variation before but I have seen photos of a couple other variants using the same nib section so it doesn't surprise me that there are more. I am surprised not to see the word "Sheaffer" on the clip in any way.

 

[Ink Stained Wretch]

On 12/28/2022 at 8:59 PM, meghashyam75 said:

Thank you. I attached the pics. It's a sheaffer cartridge fountain school and not the no-nonsense edition. Looks like it's been painted.

 

This doesn't look that much like the Sheaffer cartridge pens, or the school pens. (I differentiate those two types.) The barrel end doesn't look anything like the pens I've had over the years. There were totally blunt ends on some of the cartridge pens, but they did not look like the barrel-end I see in the photograph. The double rings make me think that the second ring is the one that engages the cap and keeps it on. I have to wonder if this is either some Sheaffer made under license in a country other than the USA or if maybe it could be a kind of franken-pen. I wonder if someone made the cap and barrel and mated them to an ordinary Sheaffer cartridge pen nib/feed/section. I've never seen a clip like that on one of the Sheaffers we're talking about.

 

A bit of a mystery you have there .

[pvh]

I remember that model was available in Belgium in the eighties. And I found it in a flyer catalog of 1982. It's a # 108 cartridge pen.

 

[pvh]

Here is the back of the page.

 

[Ink Stained Wretch]

5 hours ago, pvh said:

Here is the back of the page.

 

 

All right! I guess that this mystery is solved!

[mrcharlie]

That is pretty cool. I wonder if those were available in the US, as I've never run into them. Possibly they were but sold in very low numbers compared to the base model.