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Sheaffer Eye Candy: WW-II era Tuckaway with "Reverse Trim"


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#1 david i

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Posted 23 September 2011 - 02:21 AM

A series that had relatively few models and ran just a few years, Sheaffers's WW-II era Triumph family gave us some nice... and some interesting... pens.

"Reverse Trim" references a minority trim metal for a given pen color and model, usually uncommon overall and in some cases with uncatalogued status. Most often, this appears as chrome trim on black pens-- typically found with gold-filled trim-- and in other cases as chrome trim on other colors usually found with gold-filled trim or as gold-filled trim on colors (usually gray pearl) typically found with chrome trim.


Chrome trim also tends to be fragile, subject to pitting and not amenable to restoration with simple polishing, as would be gold-filled trim.

So, for your consideration. A Triumph Tuckaway (1942-5) black with "reverse" chrome trim. Nice Example.

I've not yet researched whether this was a catalogued variant.

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#2 JonSzanto

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Posted 23 September 2011 - 07:28 AM

Handsome. It's a shame some of these combinations weren't more common, but that is the beauty of collecting, I suppose.

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Posted 23 September 2011 - 02:07 PM

Nice! Even though I prefer gold trim, the white metal looks good too and breaks the monotony. What is the metal composition in Sheaffer's white trim?
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Posted 24 September 2011 - 12:07 PM

Big brother Triumph to that Tucky:

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You can see the excessive scuffing on this pen's trim, and as David pointed out, it does not polish out like it would on the gold trim. There is no pitting though, so that's nice. Unfortunately this pen arrived with its iridium tips broken off, so the search is on for a donor nib.

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Posted 24 September 2011 - 03:10 PM

You could just get it reground. Unless you plan to do a lot of writing with it, you can probably turn it into a smooth writer without replacing the nib.

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Posted 24 September 2011 - 05:29 PM

You could just get it reground. Unless you plan to do a lot of writing with it, you can probably turn it into a smooth writer without replacing the nib.




Hi Jon,

There is more to this issue than letting the pen put down a line with a smoothened point. You comment as a "user" not a "collector" in this instance. A pen showing up with clip from a different brand also will "work", staying in pocket. Ick.

But, on the collecting side, folks tend to like the pens to be proper and clean, not just functional. A smoothened de-tipped nib still is a bad nib. Retips can be done but are not inexpensive. Donor nibs for a simple Triumph can be had reasonably. While finding clean and functional Triumph pens can be nontrivial, beaters abound, so... nib donors abound. It's worth the effort not to have a bad nib on a good pen, especially a relatively uncommon one as shown by Jody.
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Posted 24 September 2011 - 05:32 PM

Big brother Triumph to that Tucky:

You can see the excessive scuffing on this pen's trim, and as David pointed out, it does not polish out like it would on the gold trim. There is no pitting though, so that's nice. Unfortunately this pen arrived with its iridium tips broken off, so the search is on for a donor nib.

- Jody


Not at all bad. Most of the relatively few of these I've seen are far worse.

At risk of going all "over the top", I will offer the full length Triumph reverse trim set from my own stash. A nice fellow I know passed it my way at the Ohio pen show 2-3 years back. It's good to go to pen shows. :)

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 12:04 AM

Ooh, David, lovely set (I knew you'd have one lurking somewhere :))!

Jon, I have reground lesser (common) pens with bad tips just so I can use them while keeping my eye out for replacement nibs, but I have so many user pens in my collection now, I don't bother. I just set them aside and wait for a beater with a good nib to cross my path. My problem is that there's not much I can't fix (besides bad nib tips), even on beater pens, so all of my "donor" purchases wind up as users! lol




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