Sheaffer(R Pen Refills, Ink Cartridges, Jet Black, Pack Of 5

The Sheaffer pen refills never disappoint. I have been using them for years.

Works well and fits my grandpas old Sheaffer desk pen! It’s a bit snug inside the body of the pen and gets stuck inside but after a few uses, it seems to have formed a slight vacuum suction to the end so it comes out when unscrewing the top!

Got this as a gift!! Looks great for him!!

spendy but good

Couldn’t find these locally. Arrived 2 days after placing the order. Easy to install and begin writing.

It's funny: when I was old enough to graduate from pencils in elementary school, it was the mid-sixties. We graduated into cartridge pens, even though some of my desks still had the little well for a fountain pen bottle. And most of us who started in fountain pens, started with Sheaffer cartridge pens from Iowa. They were, by that time, made with transparent barrels of a rainbow of colors. I can remember the rarest, and the ones that so many wanted, were the clear 'demonstrator' barrels, but I think red was the most popular There were some kids who had Parker 45's, but these cost five times what the $1 Sheaffers did. There were a few kids with cartridge Esterbrooks or Wearevers, but these were in the dying days of the companies. They were little tiny cartridges that didn't hold much--being forced to be that size in order to save retooling for fountain pen companies used to bottle filling Sheaffer and Parker didn't fall into that trap. The Parker cartridge was long and skinny, and one of the gimmicks was an emergency reservoir at the top of the cartridge to get one through a sudden empty cartrtidge. That cartridge, as far as I know, is still being used, but I think it doesn't have the emergency reservoir at the top. The genius of the Sheaffer cartridge was that it could be used from both ends. For children as well as adults, that meant ease of use. Plus, it held a decent amount of ink. Plus, it was fat enough that one could easily see the ink level inside--for us, Sheaffer Washable Blue. I've continued to love fountain pens into my sixties, and own a bunch of them. Strangely, one of my favorites on a daily basis is still one of those Sheaffer $1 cartridge pens from the sixties, though I own pens costing hundreds of Dollars more. Those steel Sheaffer nibs, so durable in clumsy little hands back then, still serve. No, they're not the smoothest, and, rigid as possible, nuances that more flexible gold nibs enable aren't possible here. But, with the integrity of Sheaffer in Iowa, they were designed well and still serve. The amazing part is that one can still find new Sheaffer cartridge pens from the last production here in the US, on EBay! I must confess that I don't use these cartridges on a regular basis. Some ink snobs insist that cartridge ink, in any brand, is not as good as bottled ink from the same manufacturers. I don't use cartridges because it's enormously more expensive. I refill my own from bottled ink. However, I still keep a couple of these in my briefcase for emergencies. If a cartridge runs out while traveling, they are perfect. For anyone wanting to learn the seductive sensation of writing with a fountain pen, I'd recommend the Waterman Kultur (a Euro-made school pen sold here on Amazon), or visit EBay and buy one of those new Sheaffer cartridge pens.

Fit my old "no nonsense" fountain pen!

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I love real pens. It makes writing more fun, I like that Amazon is offering these products. They work great

Danke

Original ink cartridges, smooth, fits easily in my sheaffer pop, perfect color.

Parfait de bonne qualité.

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