Since We're North of the Border . . .

David Isaacson wrote a nice article for the Pennant (that’s the magazine you are missing if you aren’t a member of the PCA) a while back about Canadian Sheaffer Balances and the subtle ways in which they differed from their American cousins.

Sometimes, when articles on an obscure subject are published, dealers hop on the bandwagon and bring examples like what they’ve read about to the next show. Usually, when I’ve got an article like that one rattling around in my head, I may notice things along those lines that I wouldn’t have noticed before.

And of course, you can’t rule out the dumb luck that seems to bring things to my doorstep more often than not.

But lately, equal parts of availability, observation and dumb luck have brought a few Canadian Sheaffers home to live at the museum, and it’s worth pointing out what makes them just a little different from what you normally see around here.

First, here’s a set I decided to splurge on as a birthday present to myself – because it included one of those pesky pens, I wouldn’t ordinarily have paid this much for it, so I needed a better excuse than usual to spend the extra money:

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