Please Help Identify Australian Sheaffer - Is It A 440?

[saffewsad]

I was recently given a burgundy Sheaffer pen, which came in a gift box, by my grandfather, who had never used it. The gift box (red leather, marked "Sheaffer" with a white dot on the outside, repeated with "the proud craftsmen" on the inner lining) appears to have originally held another pen, but it's missing. In its place, confusingly, was a Parker 45 flighter with a Sheaffer cap identical to that on the burgundy pen.

The true Sheaffer has a brushed steel or chrome cap, with a polished metal clip, on the top of which (the clip) there is a raised white dot. The cap is marked "Sheaffer-made-in-Australia". The nib is (I assume) stainless steel, marked "Sheaffer", and directly below that, "AUST.". It is inlaid, in the shorter diamond pattern. The body of the pen is almost entirely burgundy plastic, save for the four square bits of metal just above the join, equally spaced around the ring. There is a removable, refillable inkwell, operated by means of depressing a metal bar (perhaps in the 'lever' style?).

Unfortunately I can't post a picture, as I don't have a camera at hand, but in general it resembles a Sheaffer 440 in burgundy - however, I can find no reference to these ever having been made in Australia. What are the chances of my analysis being correct? Have I just failed to spot the correct link to the Australian 440?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

-Update-

I used my cellphone's camera to take some truly awful pictures in the vain hope it'd help. The other pen in the picture is what I believe to be the Parker 45. The first picture sort of shows the colour.

Edited March 23, 2014 by saffewsad

[Happy Harry]

The 440 was made in Australia.

[BT-7274]

While I can't say for certain about the Sheaffer(I'm not an imperial expert, sadly), you are right in assuming that what you have to the side of the Sheaffer is a 45 flighter. Even better if it has a 14k nib, as they make lovely writers, should you decide to find a cap for it.

 

On the offhand, I would guess that it's a Triumph Imperial from the 90's, but I could easily be badly wrong, so...Grain of salt.

 

...Edit: grammar.

Edited March 23, 2014 by White Expressions

[saffewsad]

My God. Just inked the 45 and it's a good writer alright. If the 440 was produced in Australia then that's almost certainly what it is. Haven't decided what ink to use with it yet.

I'll have to trawl the internet to find a cap for the 45.

Thanks