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Balance Dating Help. When did the lever pin go away?


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#1 david i

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 01:54 AM

Hi,

Anyone know when the 1930's Sheaffer Balance lost the lever pin and gained the internal lever ring?

I'm guessing around 1931...


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#2 Roger W.

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 04:02 AM

Hi,

Anyone know when the 1930's Sheaffer Balance lost the lever pin and gained the internal lever ring?

I'm guessing around 1931...


Thanks

david




David;

If I said it once I may have said it a dozen times - fourth quarter 1930. That is from the Sheaffer archivist so there is documentation to support it - somewhere. The thing we don't know is if it was all at once or over a period of time/model lines.

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 04:06 AM


Hi,

Anyone know when the 1930's Sheaffer Balance lost the lever pin and gained the internal lever ring?

I'm guessing around 1931...


Thanks

david




David;

If I said it once I may have said it a dozen times - fourth quarter 1930. That is from the Sheaffer archivist so there is documentation to support it - somewhere. The thing we don't know is if it was all at once or over a period of time/model lines.

Roger W.




OK. I'll bite. Sheaffer had an archivist? When did this archivist pronounce this???

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#4 Roger W.

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 07:47 PM

David;

Really? OK, Tom Franz was the archivist well known to those that know Sheaffer. Tom past on a couple - three years ago. I would say he emailed me around 9 years ago. I do not have a copy of that email though the exact date I published years ago - sometime in November, '30 I think.

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