Sheaffer Balance Photo Thread 1928-1942

[PenHero]

Hi, Folks,

This is another example of what you can find in an antique store. Lots of wear and tear on the gold plated trim, but a great user pen in one of the more sought after colors.

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This well used Sheaffer Balance Statesman is in the striped Rose Glow finish, which was used on this pen c1936 to 1938. The lever-fill Statesman with the Visulated section sold for $10.00 and the matching pencil sold for $4.00.

Rose Glow was used on a lot of defferent Sheaffer pens from 1936 to 1938, and still available on the Junior in 1939. Let's see if we can come up with a few different ones!

Thanks!

Edited July 11, 2017 by PenHero
Hat tip - Daniel Kirchheimer

[dms525]

I have a Balance Craftsman in Rose Glow. I looks a lot like the Statesman, but doesn't have the white dot.

 

David

[jonveley]

Here's a shot of my pencils, from a Leadhead's post some time ago. The golf pencil is a grail find among us pencil fanatics.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MdQHvmJxoKA/VHw-APxwkQI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/nzLlVbeFBtk/s1600/Sheaffer20a5.jpg

[jonveley]

A better shot of the golf pencil . . . alongside something similarly pointy.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uheHrnRLygs/VHw90wG7noI/AAAAAAAAC14/jpQ3KBsD2-k/s1600/Sheaffer20a2.jpg

[mitto]

Some eyecandies. Thanks for sharing everyone.

[Brian-McQueen]

Jon, that's an impressive spread of pencils. There are some extremely tough ones to find in that bunch. Jim, that autograph is really cool!

[PenHero]

Hi, Folks!

There are a few pens that would be considered both iconic, widely known and acknowledged especially for distinctive excellence, and also ground breaking, innovative; pioneering, defined by Merriam-Webster. The Sheaffer Balance, introduced in 1929, the first commercially successful streamlined fountain pen, is both. At a time when almost all fountain pens were a long cylinder divided by cap and barrel, Sheaffer redefined pen design forever with the cigar shaped Balance. The pen really is nothing more than the green Jade flat-top pen reshaped into a torpedo, but it so impacted the market that every pen maker began making tapered or cigar shaped pens.

http://penhero.com/Temp/SheafferBalanceJade_1280_06.jpg

This Balance c1929, has particularly good color, when so many have browned or faded over time. They sold for $8.75 in 1929. The nib is a stub, done later to salvage a broken tine nib.

Let's see YOUR Jade Balance pens!

Thanks!

Edited July 23, 2017 by PenHero
added "commercially successful"

[Jorge]

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What about this desk pen version? Inherited from my grandfather

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Edited July 20, 2017 by Jorge

[mitto]

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What about this desk pen version? Inherited from my grandfather

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[mitto]

Extremely beautiful pen. The color is so fresh and appealing to eyes.

 

I am a little saddened, however, over the nib being stubbed because of a broken tine. Hope you find a good replacement nib for the pen.

[Lazard 20]

 

Edited July 22, 2017 by RamonCampos

[PenHero]

Nice set!

[Jorge]

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Sorry for that, new try...

[Chrissy]

Wow! I've really enjoyed looking at these fantastic pen photos. Thank you all.

[Brian-McQueen]

I can't say that I've ever seen this color offered as a desk pen before. Is it one of the dry-proof pens with a little metal key in the section?

[Jorge]

I can't say that I've ever seen this color offered as a desk pen before. Is it one of the dry-proof pens with a little metal key in the section?

I have no idea whether it is a dry-proof pen, but it has nothing in the section that I can see.

[dannyboy]

That's a really beautiful desk pen--I've never seen the ebonized pearl in a desk pen! Thanks for posting this treasure from your family's past.

[Brian-McQueen]

Jorge, here is a picture of a dry-proof section

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/238341-sheaffer-dry-proof-any-trick-to-removing-section/

[JonSzanto]

Jorge, here is a picture of a dry-proof section

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/238341-sheaffer-dry-proof-any-trick-to-removing-section/

 

Thanks for the link to the photo, but can you explain the purpose of the metal piece? I can't quite figure out what it is supposed to do.

[Freddy]

 

Fred