Re: News: Sheaffer was not the first to offer Triumph
- From: Gerald Berg <gberg@xxxxxxx>
- To: fptalk <fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:59:29 -0500
Thanks, David. I'll be watching for it.
G
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:26 PM, isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not imaged yet, though I'm hard at work on it. i have some pens though.
> But, the next PENnant will have the whole shebang :)
>
> regards
>
> David
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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