Michael Richter, our ink expert painted the following color chart for Pentrace by hand. Richard Binder a Sheaffer aficionado (or a certifiable Sheaffer loon in his own words!) jumped on the opportunity to add this to the reference section of his site and in the process added his own improvements and created the layout you see here. We will be running a follow up to this next week when we publish Richard's Sheaffer Balance clip ID chart.

The Colorful World of the Balance: Over its long life, Sheaffer’s Balance was produced in many color variations. Some colors were never used on Lifetime models, and colors that proved unpopular were used only briefly. This article shows you the different colors used on Balance pens, in the order of their introduction, and gives you hints about determining the age of a Balance. The information here is as accurate as possible, but you should not take it as absolutely authoritative.