Parker 45 Harlequin Red Shield Pattern.

January 31, 2011

I have a Parker 45 Harlequin red shield pattern.

How many P45 harlequin red did parker Made?

Or Is it a Prototype?

I'm wondering.. PLMK.

February 1, 2011

I'm pretty sure red was a released color. Francis Meinhardt can verify with more certainty. I recall us talking about this at the last Ohio Pen Show. What is the date code on yours? You'll find imprints at the bottom of the cap where the Parker name is imprinted. Should be two letters together.

Nice pen. Did the box originally come with the pen?

Edited February 1, 2011 by MLKirk

February 1, 2011

I'm pretty sure red was a released color. Francis Meinhardt can verify with more certainty. I recall us talking about this at the last Ohio Pen Show. What is the date code on yours? You'll find imprints at the bottom of the cap where the Parker name is imprinted. Should be two letters together.

Nice pen. Did the box originally come with the pen?

Date code is LII or UI

The pen comes with the original box.

February 1, 2011

I'm pretty sure red was a released color. Francis Meinhardt can verify with more certainty. I recall us talking about this at the last Ohio Pen Show. What is the date code on yours? You'll find imprints at the bottom of the cap where the Parker name is imprinted. Should be two letters together.

Nice pen. Did the box originally come with the pen?
Date code is LII or UI
The pen comes with the original box.

UI would be 4th Quarter, 1981.

LII does not make sense. Should be only two characters for the suspected time frame.

LI would be 4th Quarter, 1983.

February 1, 2011

BY chance is this is a england make pen? Does the Nib print a make in USA. OR england. The Nib is a steel or a gold???

February 1, 2011

I'm pretty sure red was a released color. Francis Meinhardt can verify with more certainty. I recall us talking about this at the last Ohio Pen Show. What is the date code on yours? You'll find imprints at the bottom of the cap where the Parker name is imprinted. Should be two letters together.

Nice pen. Did the box originally come with the pen?
Date code is LII or UI
The pen comes with the original box.

UI would be 4th Quarter, 1981.
LII does not make sense. Should be only two characters for the suspected time frame.
LI would be 4th Quarter, 1983.

Thank you! I think.. Maybe 4th Quarter, 1981.

February 1, 2011

BY chance is this is a england make pen? Does the Nib print a make in USA. OR england. The Nib is a steel or a gold???

Yes~ Made in England. Nib is made in England, too. Basically, The Nib of the P45 Harlequin is a steel.

February 4, 2011

Tony ( on Parkercollector.com) lists this as a prototype.

Regards

Hugh

February 4, 2011

Thank you for your wounderful reply.

This has always a question to me for the past...... but I don't have one

Yes~ Made in England. Nib is made in England, too. Basically, The Nib of the P45 Harlequin is a steel.

February 5, 2011

I have a red shield Harlequin as well and was told it was a prototype when I bought it so I have always been to nervous to use it. It also has the UI date code.

February 5, 2011

Tony ( on Parkercollector.com) lists this as a prototype.

Regards
Hugh

Interesting to know, Hugh. I must wonder aloud. An acknowledged prototype or simply an uncataloged specimen. Perhaps speculation?

February 6, 2011

Andreas Lambrou's Fountain Pens of the World says of the Harlequin Circlet and Shield 45s, "Similar designs in red, blue and green proved difficult to produce but some examples exist". There is a picture of the three colours on p. 200.

February 6, 2011

The 'Parker Heritage Book' describes it as an 'experiment' also IMHO I don't think the box in the original post would be the original, I'd say it's an early nineties box, 10 years later than the pen.

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