Help To Identify Vintage Parker Fountain Pen

[eoinbrowne]

Dear all

 

I have recently inherited a beautiful gold fountain pen from my late Grandfather. I was hoping that someone could please help me to identify as much about it as possible. I have attached some picture to help. I couldn't fully make out all the detail on the small plate (coat of arms style thing) on the lid and have attached a pretty poor drawing!

 

Additionally I would be interested to gain any tips on how to fill it properly?

 

Many thanks

 

Rob

 

[nxn96]

It looks to be a Parker 61, and one of the later series which had a converter as opposed to the capillary filler that the pen was originally fitted with.

[eoinbrowne]

It looks to be a Parker 61, and one of the later series which had a converter as opposed to the capillary filler that the pen was originally fitted with.

Thanks.

 

Is it possible to use ink cartridges with this pen without any major work?

[jar]

It looks to be a Parker 61, and one of the later series which had a converter as opposed to the capillary filler that the pen was originally fitted with.

Thanks.

 

Is it possible to use ink cartridges with this pen without any major work?

 

 

Sure as long as they are Parker standard. Parker (long and short), Aurora and older ST Dupont cartridges will work just fine.

[OcalaFlGuy]

The hallmark you replicated along with the shape of the nib point to your Grandfather's pen being made in Parker's UK plant in Newhaven.

 

IMO, Newhaven did especially nice jobs on the pens they made. For nibs Medium width or wider, the Brits preferred slightly wider ones than U.S. customers and the UK nibs have overly generous chonks of iridium tipping.

 

The RG designation means Rolled Gold with translates into Gold filled in American English. It's gold layer is substantually thicker than just a gold plating and will handle some fairly agressive polishing to clean it up.

 

Very nice pen you have there.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

[Mike 59]

To fill your pen, and keep the converter you have now, is very simple. If you don't have any ink, then you will need to buy a bottle of ink of your choice, a similar colour to what is already in it would be Parker 'Quink' Blue/black.

To fill, you dip the pen into the ink so that all of the nib is under the surface, squeeze the bar on the top of converter, release it, and repeat four times, keeping the nib under the surface.

Take out the pen, and clean off the ink on the finger grip part ('section') with damp paper towel. That's it.

If the pen writes well, fine. If the pen has not been used for some time, or you want to give it a service, then you would empty out the ink, fill the pen with cool water, with a few drops of washing up liquid, do this several times, then repeat with plain water.

Empty out as much water as possible, fold up a paper towel, four thicknesses or so, stand the pen upright on it, prop it up with anything you have around, and leave at least overnight. Then fill with ink of choice. You might try a different colour, there are very many to choose from, but always keep to bottled ink for fountain pen, eg. Quink, Waterman, Cross, Pelikan, Shaeffer 'Skrip' and many others, but most importantly NEVER INDIA INK.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Mike 59

[northlodge]

to the above I would just add that it appears to be missing the arrow on the hood (below the nib). If this is a family heirloom then it is probably worth going to the trouble of getting it replaced (particularly as you have a nice version of the 61 there).

[welch]

The hallmark you replicated along with the shape of the nib point to your Grandfather's pen being made in Parker's UK plant in Newhaven.

 

IMO, Newhaven did especially nice jobs on the pens they made. For nibs Medium width or wider, the Brits preferred slightly wider ones than U.S. customers and the UK nibs have overly generous chonks of iridium tipping.

 

The RG designation means Rolled Gold with translates into Gold filled in American English. It's gold layer is substantually thicker than just a gold plating and will handle some fairly agressive polishing to clean it up.

 

Very nice pen you have there.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

 

+1. Your grandfather had good taste!

[sherbie]

Nice pen. The numbers in the shield mean

 

P = Parker

 

1/10 = one tenth

 

12 ct = 12 carat

 

R G = rolled gold as mentioned before

 

Hope that you clean it out, fill use and cherish this keepsake

 

Cheers, paul