Celluloid Fountain Pen
name: label: maker
content: W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company
notes: label: Description
content: Walter A. Sheaffer, a jeweler in Fort Madison, Iowa, developed a lever-filling fountain pen, and incorporated the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. in 1913. The orange plastic body of this example is probably Radite, a plastic material introduced in the mid-1920s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter A. Sheaffer, “Fountain Pen,” U.S. Patent 1,114,052 (Oct. 20. 1914).
label: Description
content: Ad for Schaeffer pens with Radite bodies, in [Washington] Evening Star (Dec. 13, 1926), p. 10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Celanese Plastics Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334330.126
label: accession number
content: 310799
label: catalog number
content: 334330.126
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fountain Pen
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.6 cm x 1.2 cm; 3 3/4 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 9.525 cm x .9525 cm