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A week or so ago I ran across something I had never seen before: a Parker Jotter click ballpoint with advertising, and a window in the barrel that had writing showing. Clicking on the button would change the interior writing in the window. I didn't buy it then, but went back to the place on Thursday in order to purchase it. On the way there, I stopped at another place and found a *second* one of these Jotter Windows, with different advertising. The second one I saw was actually the first one I bought. I'm not intending to keep either, but rather to possibly send to/trade with another FPN member. But I thought that people might be interested in seeing something a little different. I'm not sure whether these were handed out to employees (as my understanding of the Esterbrook Bell Telephone "skunks") or to customers, or both. The first pen I saw has the logo for what appears to be an electronics firm Stromberg-Carlson (apparently for a switch or switching system product called "Crossfeed"), part of which, which according to Wikipedia, is now owned by a company called GENBAND (after previously being owned by General Dynamics); another division was sold to United Technologies, and yet another to Siemans AG. The other pen was from a much better known US brand -- Sears -- for their "Home Fashions Group". Both pens appear to have their original cartridges (the text on them seem to go with the logos on the barrel). Both pens have interior brass threading inside the caps (although the barrels and their threading are plastic). I haven't tried the pens to see if they still work, and I don't whether a regular refill fits inside them. There are slight differences in the Parker imprints on the caps between the two pens; I don't know enough to know whether this was due to major differences in when the two pens were manufactured. This is the Stromberg-Carlson Pen pen: The blue end cap on the insert may be removable in order to put in refills (but I haven't tried for fear of breaking it). I'm not sure the order of how the interior text for the window should be read (this is just a conjecture, based on what's shown when the pen is in writing more (vs. when the point is retracted): This is the Parker imprint on the cap: This is a shot of the brass threading insert in the cap: This is the Sears pen: It came in what I presume was the original box (although there was no paperwork); I can't tell if the cutout along the edge of one side of the box's lid is original. Unfortunately, the interior logo text on the cartridge doesn't line quite up with the window when the cap is completely screwed on (although in this pen it's easy to identify the order of the text captions): I discovered, however, that when I didn't screw the cap back on 100% tight, the text DOES line up correctly in the window: Like the Stromberg-Carlson pen, the Sears pen cap has interior threading of brass: but it has different imprints on the cap: Interestingly enough, there are also imprints including some sort of numerical code on both cartridges (I didn't get photos of the imprint on the cartridge for the Stromberg-Carlson pen but the code is different, being what appears to be "152" so the code may refer to the specific individual product (i.e., the Stromberg-Carlson vs. the Sears pens). Hope these photos have proved interesting. I guess other people were aware that Parker made the advertising Jotters with the window in them, but they were a new one on me (the Stromberg-Carlson pen was in a large cookie tin full of mostly ballpoints and mechanical pens, along with a no-name mottled hard rubber pen/pencil combo with a missing clip). But I spotted the arrow clip and got curious. Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth edited for formatting issues