Pen Cartoons From the 40's & 50's Parkergrams

[shamwari]

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The middle one is actually a picture of an envelope that was sent to Parker Pens in Janesville as described in Lazard 20's post above:

On 10/11/2014 at 1:43 PM, Lazard 20 said:

 

Little intra Story.

 

Don José María Sorando, 81, the letter´s sender, lives today in his hometown.

 

Mr. Sorando had good hand painting. In response to this letter Parker´s send him a gift containing a set with a fountain pen and mechanical pencil and differents Shoptalker.

 

This letter was the beginning of an epistolary friendship between Mr. Sorando and Mr. David H. Salas ( + 1961, at 42) Foreing Parker's Industrial Sales Manager.

 

In subsequent letters Mr. Sorando sent him colors drawings, one with the coat of arms of "The Salas", and various drawings more about bullfighting, art that Mr. Salas admired. In consideration, Mr. Salas sent to Spain aviation magazines a subject to which Mr. Sorando was very fond.

Note: For the next (fourth) one I've tried to make some of the text on the sign on the left clearer and redone the caption at the bottom to make it easier to read.

[shamwari]

Final 5…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: For the first one above I've redone the caption at the bottom as on the original one the bottom half of the second line had been cropped off.

 

As other posters have noticed, having a pen that could write underwater seemed to be a big issue in the 40s and 50s.

[shamwari]

…and also the Peanuts cartoon that InfernoOrangeSS originally posted...

 

 

...and finally, 2 further cartoons that I found whilst looking through the few Parkergrams and Shoptalkers that are in the online reference library on the Pen Collectors of America website

 

 

 

Happy Christmas Everyone!

[txomsy]

Thanks, they were and still are very funny, and it is great they could be recovered.

[shamwari]

It was fortunate that the Wayback Machine had archived the thread.  I was surprised that it had been archived, but very pleased to find them.

 

I was amused to see that 3 themes keep on recurring: avoiding leaks when flying, writing under water and capacity.

 

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for reposting these, shamwari!  I remembered some of them, but not others, and of course the "Dennis the Menace" one is quite amusing as well.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dipper]

On 12/25/2022 at 9:44 AM, shamwari said:

having a pen that could write underwater seemed to be a big issue in the 40s and 50s.

 

Hmmm? .... Must have been for all the people going around in submarines during that time.