Update on Vacumania.com Catastrophic Crash...

Hi,

The site rather died about a week ago.  Having now aimed my domain name at a highly reliable server recommended by Richard and Ron, I'm nearly done reloading the entire site, happily backed up save for a couple hundred long-sold pen image that were lost from backup with a drive crash couple years back, though might yet be hiding on another drive (i'll check when home this week).

Please be patient. In day or three the site should be up fully again.

regards

david
http://www.vacumania.com

The Vacumania Website... Crashed ;)

Well, my website seems down for solid day or more now. Been way busy at work, but looks like it is time to move my site to a more solid host. Hope to do that at end of week. Hope the darn site is up anyway before then.

-david

Another Off-Catalogue Double-Capband 1930's Sheaffer Balance

Picked this one up at the Ohio Pen Show. 

Again, Sheaffer catalogued Balance with with single smooth capband,  mostly gold-filled and fewer solid gold.

The double capband is quite uncommon.  This one is a "stubby" (a short standard-girth pen) in mottled Marine Green.  A clean example, this is the first I've seen in this size/color mix, although when hunting items that in total show up couple-few times a year, one will slowly  find "new" color/size variants, no doubt.

Sorry not been around much lately...

My jump to 12 hour night shifts at hospital and some politics of late have kept me swamped. Life now sorts itself out, and I hope to post blog notes more frequently.

-david