Product Description
Type Vintage Fountain Pen
Product Name Sheaffer Lifetime "Flat Top"
Manufacturer and Year Sheaffer, USA -- 1930s. High mounted clips were the earliest style of clip, and were followed by the long humped clip, then the short humped clip. This pen has the high mounted clip.
Length 5-1/4"
Filling System Lever filler, working perfectly with a new sac
Color Jade green with gold filled trim. It has a ball ended clip and a black section with one cap bands.
Nib Gold Sheaffer Lifetime medium nib is large. The nib has a serial number: 6535132
Condition Very nice condition. This is a substnatial sized pen in a lovely (almost olive) jade color. The barrel has some discoloration (browning at the end and near the section and the cap has this a band of this same discoloration below the clip. The barrel has marks caused by the cap lip as well as light scratching with more moderate scratching and bite marks at the end. The cap has moderate scratching and bite marks at the top. The cap lip has a thin crack that goes from the lip to the cap band. The cap band and clip have plating wear but they are shiny. The white dot on the flat end of the cap has mellowed to a cream color. The imprints are clear.