This page is intended to serve as a rough guide to dating Sheaffer pens. It is not by any means authoritative, but gathers information from several different sources into a single location.
Some of those sources are: Sheaffer's website, David Nishimura's Vintage Pens, the Sheaffer Pens Yahoo group, Pendemonium, Stylophiles, Enter-net Pen Auction, and articles from the PCA publication The Pennant.
If any of the information here is inaccurate, or if you have additional data, please let me know via e-mail. My address is mashelley at earthlink dot net.
Unless otherwise noted, dates are that of introduction.
| 1912 | Company Founded |
| 1922 | Skrip |
| 1922-24 | Radite (celluloid) caps and barrels |
| 1924 | White Dot |
| ca. 1925 | hard rubber pens discontinued |
| 1925 | Black, Jade flattops |
| 1928-1929 | Balance Lifetime introduced (black, jade, black and pearl) |
| 1927-29 | long humped ball clip |
| 1930 | Marine Green marble |
| 1931 | Autograph (wide 14k band) |
| 1931 | two-tone Feathertouch nib |
| 1931 | red-veined grey pearl |
| 1932-33 | shorter humped ball clip |
| ca. 1934 | Black Mother-of-Pearl |
| 1934-35 | humped flattened ball clip |
| 1934 | WASP pen |
| 1934-1935 | Vac-Fil (plunger) |
| 1936 | striped Radite (brown, grey, Roseglow) |
| 1936 | streamlined clip |
| 1936 | transparent section |
| 1938 | Marine Green striped Radite |
| 1939 | Carmine striped Radite |
| 1939 | original Crest (metal cap) |
| 1941 | over-the-top military clip |
| ca. 1941 | Tuckaway |
| 1942 | Triumph nib |
| ca. 1945 | spring-type clip |
| 1948 | Fortical (injection molded) caps and barrels |
| 1949 | Touchdown |
| 1952 | Snorkel |
| 1955 | cartridge filling pens |
| 1959 | Inlaid nib |
| 1959-ca. 1963 | PFM |
| 1963-ca. 2000 | Imperial |
| 1976-1994 | Targa |
| 1991-ca. 2000 | Crest |
| 1990s | Legacy, Prelude |
| 1997 | purchased by Bic |
| 1998 | Balance II |
| 2000 | Intrigue |
| 2001 | Deltagrip, Javelin |
| 2002 | Skrip reformulated |
| 2002 | colored single-ended cartridges |
| 2002 | Agio women's pen |
| ? | Lady Sheaffer / Skripsert |
| ? | Fashion |
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Last updated 18 Feb 2003