Product Description
Type Modern Fountain Pen
Product Name Sheaffer Crest (Re-issue) - Model 597 "Opalite Golden Brown"
Manufacturer and Year Sheaffer, USA -- 1994-96.
Length 5-9/16"
Filling System Takes Sheaffer cartridges and converters. A Sheaffer squeeze converter is installed, and there is a box of cartridges in the box.
Color "Opalite Golden Brown" -- Cracked ice or marbled orange, brown, and black. The orange is semi-transparent. The trim is 23k electroplated gold.
Nib Medium 18k Conical Triumph Nib. It has palladium masking and lots of tipping material. The section is labeled M.
Condition New old stock condition in box, the body and trim look nearly perfect with only slight handwear. A typical problem with the "opalite" Crests is shrinkage of the plastic, and sometimes you can't get the converter to fit in the barrel. When we got this pen there was a little barrel shrinkage and so we had to reduce some of the material inside the barrel in order to get the converter to fit. There was some exterior shrinkage which you can see from certain angles (see photo below). There's no scratches, cracks, or chips.