So why, you may ask, would I pull cash out of my pocket fast as a jackrabbit when I saw this one on Alan Kaufman's table, without even bothering to check to see if I had one like it?
Yes, this is the big boy among rigid radius clip Sheaffers, measuring in at a hefty 5 1/2 inches, but that's not it.
There's been discussion among Sheaffer collectors lately about what has been nicknamed the "Cathedral weave" effect that can be seen on some striated Sheaffer pens. Some striated Sheaffers were made with square rods of celluloid that were glued together in a grid, so that when the block was shaped into the streamlined profile of a pen cap or barrel, the rounding off results in black arches that resemble the graceful arches in a Cathedral.
When it occurs, it is more pronounced on the pens, which have sharper curves at the ends, than it is on the pencils -- and that's when the rods are straight. What happens when the rods are not straight for some reason before they are milled into a pencil cap? Say, for example, when they are as crooked as this . . .
NOTE: This article is now included in the print version of The Leadhead's Pencil Blog, available anywhere you buy books, or also from The Legendary Lead Company.
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I have a similar pen. I use it many years...over and over
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