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. This example has a grey plastic shell. The inscription reads “W. A. Sheaffer / Fort Madison, Iowa.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter A. Sheaffer, “Fountain Pen,” U.S. Patent 1,114,052 (Oct. 20. 1914).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.334330.123
label: accession number
content: 310799
label: catalog number
content: 334330.123
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fountain Pen
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 1.3 cm; 5 1/2 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 13.97 cm x .9525 cm