Nassau Green?

[Richard]

For those who remarked on my Navy Grey chip, your complaints have been heard. I've redone the chip so that it matches my personal Navy Grey pen more closely. Here are my Nassau and Navy Grey chips as they are now.

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/ref/colors/parker/51v_nas_gre.jpg http://www.richardspens.com/images/ref/colors/parker/51a_nav_gre.jpg

[sumgaikid]

Well hello Perry!

 

And thanks Rick! Shows you what I know....I learn something new every day. I did not know that the Nassau was available in the single jewel model.

 

MD

 

 

 

Carguy,the reason that 51's were made as an SJ model was so that they could be sold overseas. Here

in the US we could only buy the "more luxurious" DJ model. In actuality,SJ Nassau Green 51's are harder

to find than DJ models.

 

 

 

John

[karmakoda]

For those who remarked on my Navy Grey chip, your complaints have been heard. I've redone the chip so that it matches my personal Navy Grey pen more closely. Here are my Nassau and Navy Grey chips as they are now.

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/ref/colors/parker/51v_nas_gre.jpg http://www.richardspens.com/images/ref/colors/parker/51a_nav_gre.jpg

Don't know how you did that, but.....

Now confirmed, I am the proud owner of a Navy Gray Parker 51 Special. The cleverness of this chip is that it represents a range of the colours that the pen can appear to be, under varied lighting. Well done, and Thank You.

Greg

[Richard]

Carguy,the reason that 51's were made as an SJ model was so that they could be sold overseas. Here

in the US we could only buy the "more luxurious" DJ model. In actuality,SJ Nassau Green 51's are harder

to find than DJ models.

I'm sorry, but that isn't right. The specific reason for the existence of single-jewel "51"s was the Imperial Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. airbases on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. That military action, for those Americans who haven't received a proper education in U.S. history (a rather frightening number of us, it turns out), prompted the U.S. Congress, on the next day, to declare war on the Empire of Japan. When America went to war, certain materials were placed on a list of critical war resources. Among those materials were brass and aluminum. Eliminating the second jewel from the "51" saved the brass required for the blind-cap tassie. At the same time, Parker phased in "51" caps (and clips for all its pens) that were made of vermeil (gold on sterling silver) instead of gold on brass. The brass thus saved went into ammunition manufacture. Similarly, the redesign of the Vacumatic filler to use a plastic plunger freed a certain amount of aluminum for use in building aircraft.

[Carguy]

Carguy,the reason that 51's were made as an SJ model was so that they could be sold overseas. Here

in the US we could only buy the "more luxurious" DJ model. In actuality,SJ Nassau Green 51's are harder

to find than DJ models.

I'm sorry, but that isn't right. The specific reason for the existence of single-jewel "51"s was the Imperial Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. airbases on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. That military action, for those Americans who haven't received a proper education in U.S. history (a rather frightening number of us, it turns out), prompted the U.S. Congress, on the next day, to declare war on the Empire of Japan. When America went to war, certain materials were placed on a list of critical war resources. Among those materials were brass and aluminum. Eliminating the second jewel from the "51" saved the brass required for the blind-cap tassie. At the same time, Parker phased in "51" caps (and clips for all its pens) that were made of vermeil (gold on sterling silver) instead of gold on brass. The brass thus saved went into ammunition manufacture. Similarly, the redesign of the Vacumatic filler to use a plastic plunger freed a certain amount of aluminum for use in building aircraft.

 

Amazing how many things were impacted by the advent of WWII, isn't it? Either way, I've never seen a SJ Nassau Green, but would love to find one, as I really like the color. Hell, I'd take a DJ or a SJ.....I just love the 51 in every color I think!

 

MD

[diplomat]

I'm sorry, but that isn't right. The specific reason for the existence of single-jewel "51"s was the Imperial Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. airbases on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. That military action, for those Americans who haven't received a proper education in U.S. history (a rather frightening number of us, it turns out), prompted the U.S. Congress, on the next day, to declare war on the Empire of Japan. When America went to war, certain materials were placed on a list of critical war resources. Among those materials were brass and aluminum. Eliminating the second jewel from the "51" saved the brass required for the blind-cap tassie. At the same time, Parker phased in "51" caps (and clips for all its pens) that were made of vermeil (gold on sterling silver) instead of gold on brass. The brass thus saved went into ammunition manufacture. Similarly, the redesign of the Vacumatic filler to use a plastic plunger freed a certain amount of aluminum for use in building aircraft.

 

Very interesting, thank you. I wonder - however - why they just didn't replace the ring around the jewel with plastic rather than eliminating altogether an interesting design feature.

Additionally: are bottom jewels "seats" always made of brass?

 

Thank you, A.

[Richard]

Very interesting, thank you. I wonder - however - why they just didn't replace the ring around the jewel with plastic rather than eliminating altogether an interesting design feature.

Additionally: are bottom jewels "seats" always made of brass?

They probably didn't see a plain plastic decoration as appropriately decorative or stylistically correct.

 

As for "always," no. But at that time, the furniture on all U.S.-made pens of good quality was brass. Steel rusts, aluminum is too soft, and so on. Brass with rolled gold (called "gold filled" then) was strong and nonrusting.

[Glenn-SC]

I'm sorry, but that isn't right. The specific reason for the existence of single-jewel "51"s was the Imperial Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. airbases on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. That military action, for those Americans who haven't received a proper education in U.S. history (a rather frightening number of us, it turns out), prompted the U.S. Congress, on the next day, to declare war on the Empire of Japan. When America went to war, certain materials were placed on a list of critical war resources. Among those materials were brass and aluminum. Eliminating the second jewel from the "51" saved the brass required for the blind-cap tassie. At the same time, Parker phased in "51" caps (and clips for all its pens) that were made of vermeil (gold on sterling silver) instead of gold on brass. The brass thus saved went into ammunition manufacture. Similarly, the redesign of the Vacumatic filler to use a plastic plunger freed a certain amount of aluminum for use in building aircraft.

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Edited December 3, 2009 by Glenn-SC