Identification Sheaffer vintage

[Cyan495]

Dear Members, is the attached a 9202 Sheaffer Imperial 777 Rolled Gold Fountain Pen and Ball Pen set? I am new to fountain pens and have trouble identifying. Thanks 

[Wahl]

It does look like an Imperial 777 set, from the 80´s , which I would hardly call vintage.

[Cyan495]

Great, thanks. I guess it depends when one was born 😄 Technically, vintage is 20 years+ and antique from 100+ 

[Wahl]

To be frank, there is no consensus on that, and this discussion appears frequently on this forum and others.

 

To me a vintage pen is one made before 1950, as from this date we enter the age of ball points and other abominations  😂.

 

Check the Pen History sub-forum, there is a currently a thread about this.

[Ron Z]

On 3/20/2023 at 12:25 PM, Wahl said:

It does look like an Imperial 777 set, from the 80´s , which I would hardly call vintage.

 

Sheaffer did.  When the service center closed in 2008, they were calling anything 1982 and before "vintage."

[joss]

On 3/20/2023 at 8:26 AM, Cyan495 said:

Dear Members, is the attached a 9202 Sheaffer Imperial 777 Rolled Gold Fountain Pen and Ball Pen set? I am new to fountain pens and have trouble identifying.

 

Hi,

The fountain pen in your set seems to have the Touchdown ink filling mechanism. If that is correct, your pen is the predecessor of the 777 and can be dated to 1960s-early 1970s (Touchdown fillers were phased out in 1973). The earlier Imperials with the gold-filled cap and barrel were simply named "Sheaffer Imperial Triumph" and had catalog model number AS17T. See also the Sheaffer Imperial reference list at www.sheaffertarga.com.