Where To Find Original Sheaffer Instructions For Older Sheaffer Pens

[PenHero]

Fellow collectors,

 

Spent the weekend updating the Library Of Vintage Pen And Pencil User Guides on PenHero.com and it struck me that I've managed to post 75 instruction guides from many different brands over the years including 24 from Sheaffer:

 

Please click here for the Sheaffer Pen And Pencil User Guides on PenHero.com:

 

Sheaffer c1914 Pens

Sheaffer c1922 Pens

Sheaffer c1935 Pens

Sheaffer c1935-1939 Dry-Proof Desk Set

Sheaffer 1947 Vacuum-Filler

Sheaffer 1949 Touchdown

Sheaffer 1952 Snorkel Pens

Sheaffer 1955 Snorkel / Tip-Dip Pens

Sheaffer c1955 Fineline Cartridge Pen

Sheaffer 1957 Cartridge Pen

Sheaffer 1958 Skripsert Cartridge Pen

Sheaffer c1959 PFM / Pen For Men

Sheaffer 1961 Tip-Dip

Sheaffer c1961-1962 PFM / Pen For Men (UK)

Sheaffer c1961-1962 PFM / Pen For Men

Sheaffer 1961 Imperial Cartridge Pens

Sheaffer 1962 Cartridge Pens

Sheaffer 1963 Lifetime Cartridge Pen

Sheaffer 1965 Glideriter

Sheaffer c1964-1966 Pens

Sheaffer 1974 Pens

Sheaffer c1976-1980 Pens

Sheaffer c1976 Targa

Sheaffer c1982-1990 Pens

 

If you have any I have not posted, please add them to the thread, either the scans themselves or links. I am sure there are many who would find these useful.

 

Please also let me know if you would mind me posting them on PenHero.com as part of the overall list I maintain.

 

I'm going to pin this topic as I hope it becomes a reference.

 

Thanks!

[PenHero]

We've added five new user guides to the Library:

 

http://www.penhero.com/MainPagePics/SheafferTriumph_1943.jpg

 

Two Parker 51 from 1949 and 1963 showing the first Aero-Metric and the cartridge versions

Sheaffer Triumph 1943 including a how to fly with your Triumph guide

Sheaffer Stratowriter 1947

c1918 Waterman's

 

Library Of Vintage Pen And Pencil User Guides

 

Thanks to David Oye for this contribution!

 

More to come!

 

Jim Mamoulides

www.PenHero.com

[PenHero]

Added a Sheaffer c1966 insert from a Sheaffer Stylist Foursome set!

[PDW]

Wow - help for users, repairers of unfamiliar pens, aspiring owners and people dating a pen. A most valuable resource.

 

Many thanks

Edited April 23, 2015 by PDW

[3rdlakerobert]

JIm,

I noticed that the 1947 Vacuum Filler instructions sheet happens to include the little-known directions for refilling a mechanical pencil. Should that fact be added to the Table of Contents?

[Valthero]

Hello,

 

I would love to have physical copies of many of these Sheaffer documents, but unfortunately it appears as though Bill Acker's website is down. Would anyone happen to know where else I could find reprints?

 

Cheers!

[PenHero]

Hello,

 

I would love to have physical copies of many of these Sheaffer documents, but unfortunately it appears as though Bill Acker's website is down. Would anyone happen to know where else I could find reprints?

 

Cheers!

 

Bill stopped selling the physical copies long ago. I don't know anyone else selling reprints. The user guides on PenHero.com can be printed. Each page links to a PDF.

[3rdlakerobert]

Two old Sheaffer documents--I don't know the date. They are from a single sheet and were back-to-back on that sheet. The sheet came in an old box that held an old pencil that I got on eBay. Sorry about the upside down scans -- can't seem to correct them.

 

 

[AnneD]

I sat upon my grandpa's knee and he showed me his slate and graphite "pencil" from his boyhood (circa 1900, born 1898). He told me they didn't have pencils in wood until later, as an invention. I remember asking why anyone needed "indelible" (read - unerasable) pencils and was told by him or my dad that it was because sometimes people couldn't use dip pens (before fountain pens!) because of their location/work/pilots, etc, and thus they used the indelible for permanent records that would not get altered! Yup. Pencils were more important then. Dip pens were for banks and homes. I recall as a child (1950's) seeing the inkwells with a dip pen in them on every bank counter. Not for long. I guess they were passe even then.

[crescentfiller]

 

 

23 hours ago, AnneD said:

I sat upon my grandpa's knee and he showed me his slate and graphite "pencil" from his boyhood (circa 1900, born 1898). He told me they didn't have pencils in wood until later, as an invention. I remember asking why anyone needed "indelible" (read - unerasable) pencils and was told by him or my dad that it was because sometimes people couldn't use dip pens (before fountain pens!) because of their location/work/pilots, etc, and thus they used the indelible for permanent records that would not get altered! Yup. Pencils were more important then. Dip pens were for banks and homes. I recall as a child (1950's) seeing the inkwells with a dip pen in them on every bank counter. Not for long. I guess they were passe even then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://pencils.com/pages/the-history-of-the-pencil

 

 

Graphite came into widespread use following the discovery of a large graphite deposit in Borrowdale, England in 1564. Appreciated for leaving a darker mark than lead, the mineral proved so soft and brittle that it required a holder. Originally, graphite sticks were wrapped in string. Later, the graphite was inserted into hollowed-out wooden sticks and, thus, the wood-cased pencil was born!

Nuremberg, Germany was the birthplace of the first mass-produced pencils in 1662. Spurred by Faber-Castell (established in 1761), Lyra, Steadtler and other companies, an active pencil industry developed throughout the 19th century industrial revolution.

 

Pencil History: America Expresses Itself

Early settlers depended on pencils from overseas until the war with England cut off imports. William Monroe, a Concord, Massachusetts cabinet-maker, is credited with making America’s first wood pencils in 1812. Another Concord native, famous author Henry David Thoreau, was also renowned for his pencil-making prowess.

Click here to learn more about famous pencil people through history.

The American pencil industry took off when The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company (now Dixon Ticonderoga) and more pencil manufacturers started getting into the act and, towards the end of the 19th century, New York and New Jersey hosted several factories established by prominent German pencil manufacturers, including Faber-Castell, Eberhard Faber, Eagle Pencil Company (later Berol) and General Pencil Company.

The first mass-produced pencils were natural and unpainted to show off high-quality wood casings. But, by the 1890s, many pencil manufacturers started painting pencils and imprinting them with brand names. There’s an interesting story behind how the familiar yellow pencil came to be.

 

[AnneD]

Thank you for the history lesson, that helps a lot!

[Armo]

In English or Spanish

https://parkersheaffer.com/sheaffer-repair-manual/