Old Parker Pen Identification

[Paul Sloggett]

This old fountain pen belonged to my grandfather and I think is at least more than 40 years old. It still works beautifully. My grandfather couldn't read or write but he could sign his name so that's all it may have been used for. Does anyone have an idea about model or history please?

 

See writing here http://www.stamfordnotebooks.co.uk/parker-pen/

Thanks

Paul

paul@stamfordnotebooks.co.uk

 

[The Blue Knight]

I think Paker 17.

 

http://www.parkerpens.net/parker17.html

[Paul Sloggett]

I think you are right 'The Blue Knight'. Thanks for the information. It does look very much like a Parker 17.

 

It seems it might not be a rare or particularly interesting pen. However, what's great is that we are still using the old thing to test the paper in the notebooks we make to ensure fountain pen frendliness. I think my grandfather would be proud.

 

Thank you

 

Paul

[The Blue Knight]

Glad to have helped.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Dyslexia was not understood back then...both Liston and Ali were dyslexic. There are stages. It has nothing to do with raw intelligence.

 

I hope you can clean up and use that pen.

[Freddy]

Paul..Welcome Aboard! Enjoy your time here....

 

For your consideration..from Tony Fischier's excellent site....

What Model Is My Pen?....

http://www.parkerpens.net/apis.html

 

For the Parker 75's L.T. Wong's excellent site....

http://www.parker75.com/

 

 

For the Parker 51.... Ernesto Soler's excellent site....

http://www.parker51.com/index.html

 

 

 

Fred

[Paul Sloggett]

You could well be right Bo Bo Olson. My grandfather may well have been dyslexic. Never thought of that before. Thinking about it he may have had coping strategies, he told many interesting stories

 

He ended up with 26 patents of his own and a share in an engineering company employing 100 people. He said he would not employ more than 100 people because if he did he could not remember all their names. He was very handy in making anything. His patents here.

 

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/searchResults?compact=false&ST=advanced&IN=frank+bernard+harley&locale=en_EP&DB=EPODOC

 

Isn't it interesting he couldn't read and write and never saw the internet but yet here his name is for all the world to see. He'd have been amazed.

 

Paul

[Paul Sloggett]

Hi Freddy. Thanks for the welcome. The links are much appreciated.

 

Paul

[Bo Bo Olson]

Your Gramps had better than raw intelligence.

He had a good and wise partner too.

I can not imagine the difficulty he had to have had to get through any apprentice system to be a tool maker to advance into engineering boots. I am making an assumption here of course.

Of course he could have hung around the right bar solving problems for engineers until offered a job.

 

Some of the Dyslexic listen very well, and have fine memories. I had changed my mind on something, and one I knew said, that wasn't what I said twenty years before.

[wastelanded]

That's an excellent pen, the 17. It will write for decades to come.

 

English Parkers were true gems, from bottom to top of the line.