10 replies to this topic

[controls_freak]

Doc, I'm surprised you haven't already snatched this pen.

 

[Norm]

Does it have a Lifetime nib?

[controls_freak]

3-25

 

[/URL]">http://

[david i]

I can't get 'em all. Sleep, n' all that

 

-d

[Norm]

I recall reading that sometimes a pen drilled for a white dot then not used as such would have the to be filled back in but usually with the same color.

 

edited to correct  some kind of messed humor my new note pan has for auto correct spelling. 

Edited by Norm, 04 January 2015 - 11:45 PM.

[david i]

A prior thread.

 

Dr. Who meets the Sheaffer Balance: Curse of the Black SPot

 

regards

 

david

[Norm]

I have seen at least one (green marble I think) that was filled in with the same color. You can tell because the pattern does not line up completely. 

[Parker51]

Could the use of a Black Dot on an Oversize Pen been an Export Model made in an attempt to adress the problem of White not being a valued color in some cultures and thus its presence possibly depressing the perceived value of what otherwise would have been the top of the line product. The design matches production during the Depression, and any edge or idea of an edge which wouldn't cost any money to try might well have been tried. Just a guess, but one based upon having Chinese Friends and having learned which colored flowers to give them based upon their traditions.

[Norm]

In Eastern cultures white is associated with both death and purity but black is not a universally positive color in Eastern cultures.  I am wondering why would Sheaffer would use any other color and on a non-lifetime nib on a top-of-the-line pen for export? Seems likely to me that they would use a Lifetime nib on a pen with a dot of any color if it was to represent their best quality.

[Parker51]

Just a guess. Another one is someone was simply fooling around. A long time ago I enjoyed a shop class working in laminated plastics, and it was just fun to see what one can make. Perhaps this was the same kind of thing. Maybe all was not quite as happy in the plant as it seems to be portrayed, and putting together a pen which in a way makes light of the Vaulted "White Dot" and "Lifetime Nib" through the creation of a pen with a "Black Dot" and "Non- Lifetime Nib" could be construed as fun, funny, and giving management "the bird". I have worked with people who I can easily imagine doing this, the kind with skills and little patience for "the emperor's new clothes" so to speak.

[Roger W.]

It is a filled white dot in all likelihood done at the factory to fill an order.  Since we have one I would assume they had to convert 10, 20 or 50 to cover orders with what would have been an overrun of production of white dots.  These other theories are a bit far afield as we actually see enough of these to suggest they are factory correct and a practice that went back to flattop pens as well.

 

Roger W.