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Hi all, I (currently) have precisely one Sheaffer - a 'Triumph 444' from the 1980s. My pen was sold to me as having a 'Fine' nib on it, although of course no nib grade is indicated anywhere on the pen, or the box/paperwork that I received with it. Now, my experience of writing with my pen is that I find its nib to be wider than I would have expected from a pen sold as having an 'F' nib; that its nib is more like the width of a modern (post-1980) Parker 'M'. I decided to look for information about nib-widths/grading on here, and I found the very useful thread about the range of widths within which each Sheaffer nib grade could fall in the 1970s that RonZ pinned at the top of the 'Repair Q&A' board, here ↓ ... ...and, from reading that, I found that my experience would indeed be in-line with a nib that falls within the range that Sheaffer was defining as an 'F' nib in the 1970s. But, in another thread recently, I learned from LizEF that her Sheaffer 'Icon' writes with a line that she perceives to be narrower than the usual one for pens/nibs marked with that grade. I know (from personal experience with pens that were made by Parker and by Pelikan across the late-Twentieth and early Twenty-first centuries) that manufacturers can 'move the goalposts' over the decades; that what is marked 'F' in one era might be more like the next era's 'EF', or a width that what was once marketed as a 'B' may in future be marketed as an 'M'. So, I would now like to ask whether anyone who is reading this has any lists that show the ranges within which Sheaffer's different nib grades have been defined in other decades, e.g.s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - ✓ - see the thread I linked-to above. 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s. If anyone does have access to legitimate sources of this information, I would be very grateful if they would please add it/them to this thread, in order to facilitate easy future reference. Slàinte, M.