Click image to enlarge

Description

GREETINGS, FEEL FREE
TO

"SHOP NAKED."©

 

 

We deal in items we believe others will enjoy and want to purchase.

 We are not experts.

We welcome any comments, questions, or concerns.

WE ARE TARGETING A GLOBAL MARKET PLACE.

Thanks in advance for your patronage.

 

Please Be sure to add WDG to your favorites list!

 


 

NOW FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE…

 

 

 

VINTAGE / ANTIQUE MECHANICAL PENCIL
DEEP GREEN ON GOLDTONE
A TMELINE DIVISION
OF THE SHEAFFER PEN COMPANY
FT MADSION, IOWA
PERSONALIZED / MONOGRAM
"Z.E. MCGREGOR"
(LITTLE INFORMATION HAS BEEN FOUND, BUT MR. MACGREGOR WAS A NOTED HORSE JOCKEY IN THE 1920's)
AND RESIDED IN CLAREMORE OKLAHOMA
ARTICLE FOUND IN A SAN DIEGO PAPER
REPORTS Z.E. MCGREGOR'S PERFOMANCE AT THE HORSE RACES...



 
-------------------------------------------- 
FYI
--------------------------------------------
 
 
 
Sheaffer Pen Corporation is a manufacturer writing instruments, particularly luxury fountain pens. The company was founded by Walter A. Sheaffer in Fort Madison, Iowa, and incorporated in 1913  to exploit his invention of a lever-filling fountain pen. The brand is currently a subsidiary of French company Bic, with only a service facility remaining at Fort Madison. Sheaffer pens are still primarily developed in Italy.

Earlier this century when Walter A. Sheaffer first toyed with the idea of developing his own fountain pen, calligraphy was very much in vogue. The pen a man used reflected his personality even more than it does today, and an elegant and reliable pen was essential to his image as were the suits he wore. As a result there was a plethora of every kind of fountain pen imaginable on the market and yet so confident was he that his idea was a winner, Walter Sheaffer, at age forty-five and to the horror of his family, decided to gamble his entire life savings on the success of the Sheaffer refillable fountain pen.

Working in the back room of the Ft. Madison jewellery store he had run since leaving his father's jewellery firm, Walter Sheaffer perfected his ingenious invention. By fitting an inflatable rubber sack into the barrel of the pen, ink could be drawn up through the nib, eliminating the need to fill an eyedropper full of ink and then carefully squeeze the contents into the open barrel of the pen, a delicate operation which often ended in disaster for both handwritten letter and tailored suit, not to mention the scribe's personal image.

Walter's first hand-made pens met with such an enthusiastic response from his close friends that he felt assured of the viability of his design and launched himself headlong into his risky enterprise. The first factory devoted to the making of the Sheaffer fountain pen commenced operation in 1912 and his simple design, the world's first practical, lever-filled fountain pen was to revolutionize the entire writing industry.

In 1907, Walter A. Sheaffer invented the lever filler mechanism. Five years later in 1912, production of Sheaffer pens began. Listed below are just a few important product introduction dates in Sheaffer history.

1920 - Lifetime Pen
1922 - Skrip Ink
1922 - Radite caps and barrels
1924 - White Dot
1930 - Balance Pen
1931 - Feather Touch Nib
1934 - W.A.S.P.
1935 - Vac-Fil filling system
1936 - Transparent ink view section
1942 - Triumph conical shaped nib
1946 - Stratowriter Ballpoint
1948 - Injection molded plastic caps and barrels
1949 - Touchdown filling system
1952 - Snorkel filling system
1955 - Cartridge filling fountain pens
1959 - PFM

 

 

 


(THIS PICTURE FOR DISPLAY ONLY)
-------------------------

 

 

Thanks for choosing this sale. You may email for alternate payment arrangements. We combine shipping. Please pay promptly after the auction. The item will be shipped upon receipt of funds.
WE ARE GOING GREEN, SO WE DO SOMETIMES USE CLEAN RECYCLED MATERIALS TO SHIP. 

 

 

Please leave feedback when you have received the item and are satisfied. Please respond when you have received the item.

*****

5*'s

*****

If you were pleased with this transaction, please respond with all 5 stars! If you are not pleased, let us know via e-mail. Our goal is for 5-star service. We want you to be a satisfied, return customer.

 

 

Please express any concerns or questions. More pictures are available upon request. The winning bid will incur the cost of S/H INSURED FEDEX OR USPS. See rate calculator or email FOR ESTIMATE. International Bidders are Welcome but be mindful if your country is excluded from safe shipping. 

 

 

 

 

 Thanks for perusing THIS and ALL our auctions.

 

Please Check out our other items!

 

 

WE like the curious and odd.

 

BUY, BYE!!