SH1893 Targa by Sheaffer No. 1005 Fluted Gold Plate, boxed (Semi-Flexible Medium-Broad)

SH1893 Targa by Sheaffer No. 1005 Fluted Gold Plate, boxed (Semi-Flexible Medium-Broad)

Date: c1980s

Size: Capped - 137mm; posted - 159mm.

This beautiful 23-carat gold electroplated Targa is the full-sized pen and has no damage at all that I can find.  Both barrel and cap are decorated with deeply incised vertical lines - Sheaffer calls this the "Fluted" pattern.  The flat-topped cap has a black plastic disc inset into the top with a pierced pocket clip with the Sheaffer white dot at the top.  The cap lip is imprinted "Gold Electroplated [crown] Sheaffer USA".  The barrel also has a black insert in the end.  It unscrews to allow the pen to be refilled.  It can be used with a standard Sheaffer ink converter (the original and fully working converter is already fitted to the pen) or with standard Sheaffer ink cartridges.  The nib is a superb 14 carat gold inlaid nib.  It is in a medium point.  The red faux-leather covered box is also in very nice condition with its white satin lid lining and pale grey flocked pad.  The original instruction sheet is also inside the box.

I have fully serviced this pen.  The nib is just superb.  It produces an very smooth, wet and medium-broad width line.  It is unusually soft and I  would class this as semi-flexible, giving you some very easy and attractive line width variation from a fine to a generous broad as you write.

It looks like this pen has barely been used.  Certainly, there is no damage on it at all, and the nib is super-expressive