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What Is This Parker Fp Exactly?


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Okay so here is my scenario. I write with a fp in high school with a Lamy Safari, and one day a lapse in my memory results in me forgetting to pack my pen with me and thus losing it. My Calculus teachr (class where I lost my LS fp) notices that I am not writing with a fp anymore and offers me her old fp. She explains that way back her husband used to write with a fp but not doesn't, and just has an old Parker laying around that no one is using it. Even if I said no, she would still bring it to me, so I accepted the offer.

 

For context, she is in her early sixties, so we may be talking about a pen as old as an ancient Egyptian mummy (exaggeration aside, maybe like the 1990s). I look at the pen, and it has one of these soft converters, like on the Pilot Metropolitan. I just touch the pen around, and I feel dry ink dust (yes, DUST, it is really old I assume) already on my fingers. Air doesn't flow freely from the converter through the nib, so its probably dry clogged in the feed. Cleaning this well will obviously take at least an hour or two.

 

I tried to look up the model online through Parker's online US based store, but I couldn't find the exact kind of nib. It is a very strange nib I haven't seen before, and is certainly not part of today's fp formula. I attached a close look at this pen with a camera. Could someone please tell me the model and maybe the average price of it? I don't want to loot a possibly expensive luxury fp from someone. If you want some reference, there is a manual in the box, and in the end there is an offer for you to have a message engraved on your pen. The example picture shows an engraving where on the pen the date said "december 3, 1989." I would assume it would be a pretty old pen, might not even be in Parker's current catalogue, but maybe on Amazon or eBay.

 

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It's a Parker 95 ... from between 1988 to 1994.

Looks like a Black Laque finish and looks in nice condition!

http://www.pencollect.co.uk/parker95Arrow.htm

 

Apparently new price was $65 USD or £50 GBP ... current value ... I wouldn't like to say really but I have bought a few off Ebay over the year and never paid more then £25 for one myself.

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I agree. Parker 95. Good writer, on the slim side, but not too slim as the Sheaffer slim pens (Targa slim, TRZ)

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