News: Sheaffer was not the first to offer Triumph
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- To: "fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:45:27 -0800 (PST)
Sheaffer is well known for having introduced the Triumph family of pens during
the 1940’s, pens that featured a conical sheath nib that eventually would take
name from the pen becoming known as the Triumph nib.
Turns out Sheaffer was late to the party with the name Triumph.
Just as Waterman’s vaunted Patrician took that name after another pen maker
(in this case, Parker) had used it for a pen, it turns out Sheaffer lifted a
name that had been used more than a decade before Sheaffer adopted it, offered
by another company, nationally distributed as a Gold Bond model offered by
Montgomery Ward, the famous catalogue and brick-and-mortar chain store.
I’m pleased to bring this information to the collecting population’s attention.
To learn more about Gold Bond’s Triumph fountain pen, do watch for the next
issue of PENnant Magazine, free with subscription to the Pen Collectors of
America, in a powerful article written by someone or other, tentatively titled,
“Pens From The Monkey Ward Part 2: Of Triumphs and Hercules”
Regards
David
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