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[Hugh]

All the details here. Don't recall seeing this one before.

Regards
Hugh


Edit from Admin: Title of thread modified to add "Canadian Sheaffer in WASP Shape" to facilitate subsequent searches.

[david i]

All the details here. Don't recall seeing this one before.

Regards
Hugh

Darn funny you should happen to post that...

-d

[david i]

Darn funny you should happen to post that...

-d

I believe both Daniel and I have shown an example of this sort on Zoss List. However, the spread below might be the most of these ever shown together.

As fate would have it, the pen Hugh showed will look quite nice next to them

So, look at the pens. To best of my knowledge no one ever has cited documentation for them. But, some of the features should be familiar to collectors of Sheaffer.

regards

David

[Hugh]

I believe both Daniel and I have shown an example of this sort on Zoss List. However, the spread below might be the most of these ever shown together.

As fate would have it, the pen Hugh showed will look quite nice next to them

So, look at the pens. To best of my knowledge no one ever has cited documentation for them. But, some of the features should be familiar to collectors of Sheaffer.

regards

David

Thanks David, had it not been for the white dot I'd not have even thought them to be Sheaffers!! So are all these Canadian production? From around the end of the '30's, early '40's maybe?.

Regards
Hugh

[david i]

Thanks David, had it not been for the white dot I'd not have even thought them to be Sheaffers!! So are all these Canadian production? From around the end of the '30's, early '40's maybe?.

Regards
Hugh

All found are Canadian. Shape evokes WASP. The military location clip with top plug evokes some WASP. The clip marking evokes WASP . Exception to some of this being the bottom slender pen (others are standard size) with conventional clip but still WSP-ish shape. Very strange pens. No documentation known or claimed yet. I'm still waiting to find one in red.

-d

[david i]

Well, having won that set via ebay, figured I should post an image.

Didn't realize when I shot it that the ferrule had unscrewed from the pencil. Will have to reshoot one of these days.

Gorgeous set. It is quite possible that all colors can be found white dot and non white dot. This is third set I've bought to come in a military / active-service style leather pouch. I wonder if Carmine was made.

regards

David

[david i]

I've commented that the fascinating thing about the Canadian pens in this thread is that they are done in Sheaffer Balance, proper, plastic with Sheaffer markings, even found as high line pens with white dot and with Lifetime nibs, yet feature a shape and clip/top-piece arrangement that in the USA are found only on Sheaffer 2nd tier sub-brand WASP pens, noting too that WASPS never incorporated Sheaffer's striated plastic.

Figured it was time to illustrate the point

Below, left to right:

• Sheaffer Balance, USA production, in conventional striated plastic.
• Sheaffer something-or-other, Canadian production, in Sheaffer plastic but with shape and clip seen in USA only with sub-brand WASP pens.
• WASP (W.A. Sheaffer Pen), USA production, with typical WASP shape, clip and plastic color/pattern.

The middle- Canadian- pen combines USA features from high line Balance along with sub-brand 2nd Tier WASP.

regards

David

[matt]

Hmmm. None pictured thus far are vac-fils, are they?

[david i]

Hmmm. None pictured thus far are vac-fils, are they?

I've seen none as plunger-fill, noting I've seen fewer than 7 total.

regards

d

[Pen Is Mightier]

What odd looking pens, but they are strangely attractive especially the blue one.

[david i]

Here's another one, this one Grey Pearl, a White Dot pen. I do in fact have another set of this sort lying about-- not sure if White Dot or not-- but it's still buried in packed pens from my recent move.

This one turned up at the Ohio Pen Show, November 2011. Funny tale, the set was present, but was broken up with a pencil hunter took the pencil, leaving the pen for me to take when I arrived to peruse the seller's hefty Sheaffer selection.

Shame to break up a set, but not the worst way for it to go.

regards

David