| The statesman model with the projecting and retracting snorkle tube ink filling system is very similar to the Sheaffer Valiant model except that the statesman is fitted with the conical design Triumph Paladium Silver nib, overplated on this pen with gold and finished with a hard platinum tip.
Sheaffer's firstly introduced the very distinctively designed conical nib in 1942 these nibs were fitted to the Lifetime model series of the 1940s.
This 1952 snorkle ink filling method Statesman fountain pen has the authentic medium point Triumph Paladium nib.
A paper printed instruction pamphlet explaining how to ink fill this snorkle filling pen is available if required.
The White Dot emblem seen just above the gold plated pocket clip was introduced in 1924 as the Sheaffer guarantee emblem. |