Re: News: Sheaffer was not the first to offer Triumph
- From: "isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:36:41 -0800 (PST)
Also, lest my post be unclear, the early Triumph by Gold Bond structurally has
nothing in common with the later and overwhelmingly better known Sheaffer. It's
a conventional lever fill pen with normal open nib. It's only the name...
regards
d
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From: Gerald Berg <gberg@xxxxxxx>
To: fptalk <fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: News: Sheaffer was not the first to offer Triumph
Any pictures of the "other" Triumphs?
Gerry
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:45 PM, isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> 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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