SH1049: Sheaffer Imperial I Touchdown.

Date: c1960s

Size: Capped - 5 1/4 inches; posted - 5 3/4 inches.

A very attractive glossy burgundy Imperial I with the small semi-hooded nib and gold plated trim.  This pen is in excellent condition with the only damage that I can see being a little edge plating wear to the pocket clip and the cap band.  The cap has a typical squared off spring loaded and gold plated Imperial pocket clip.  There is a gold plated cap lip band too.  The barrel and section also have no noticeable scratches and look nice and glossy.  This is a Touchdown filled pen - you unscrew the barrel end blind cap to withdraw the plunger.   The matching burgundy section is shiny and holds the Sheaffer's semi-hooded style nib.  

I have fully serviced this pen.  The nib writes very  smoothly.  It lays down a good wet and consistent medium width line.