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[Rocco P]

I've recently acquired this sheaffer. I'm not an expert by any means, so there probably are several errors in my description of the pen as a Sheaffer Balance Statesman. It has a lifetime nib, a 1000 price code and, most puzzling to me, a tuckaway clip. The cap seems to belong to the pen, as it screws down securely and has the same plastic as the pen. Am I mistaken in believing that the clip is an oddity?

 

[david i]

Hi Paolino.

 

This one, I fear, indeed is a frankenpen. Barrel is a 1937-1931 Balance in gray.  Cap is  a 1945-7 Tuckie cap from probably a Tuckaway II, a pen that is itself , ironically, essentially a Tuckie version of the 1945-7 full clip pen, Statesman, but a 1945-7 Triumph family Statesman, not 1930's family Statesman.

 

As an aside, I recommend a wonderful four page thread discussing Tuckaway. Major eye candy.

 

Fountain Pen Board's Sheaffer Tuckway 4 Page Thread: Link

 

regards

 

david

[Rocco P]

Thanks for the answer and, most importantly, the link to that gorgeous thread.

 

As for the pen, it'll go to the parts bin, I fear