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The early history of Sheaffer production has long been obscure.
Walter A. Sheaffer's first fountain pen patent was issued in 1908, but
the earliest evidence for large-scale production dates to around 1913 or
1914. Indeed, the first Sheaffer barrel imprint seen with any
consistency is the one with the central "SELF-FILLING" logo in an oval
and
patent dates of 1908 and December 12, 1912 (fig. 1). This imprint
predates the
one adopted following the issuance of patent 1,114,052 on October 20,
1914, and
must therefore be dated somewhere between mid-December 1912 and late
October
1914.Nonetheless,
something must have come before. The
pens with the imprint of c. 1913 were clearly produced in large numbers, judging
from the number of surviving examples, and they show none of the wide variations
to be expected in the first production run of a brand-new company.
Yet only a handful of likely precursors have turned up to date, so few
that dating them and fitting them into any sort of pre-1913 chronology has until
now been largely guesswork.
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