Sheaffer Lifetime Green Jade

A Sheaffer Lifetime white dot in jade green. Conflicting specifications of the pen makes it difficult for me to fix a date to it. I would say this pen is from sometime in the late '30s. It's the flat top Lifetime with the white dot on the top of the cap. It also has the later deep multi-finned feed design.

The colour has obviously faded. The trims also shows considerably plating loss, especially the cap ring. When I got this pen it needed a service and restoration. Decades of dried ink had to be removed and a new sac has to be put in. Unfortunately I didn't have the proper sized sac for this large pen so a slightly smaller one (#18) had been used.

 

It had a lovely large nib which writes smoothly but with considerable feedback.

 

Edit: I'm told this pen is sometime from between 1924 to 1928 as it has a single cap band. From 1928 onward till 1934 approximately they had dual cap bands. The feed is from later on, from '38 or '39, possibly a later replacement.

 

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