Black Giant Photo Thread - Show us your Parker Giants

[George]

WOW! Two awesome pens, and two very rare pens if I do say so myself. What is the history on the moderne?

 

Regards

George

[fibreglass_works]

Hi John,

 

Tks for your head up. THis is very interesting topic here. How many Giants are there in the world as to date?????

 

I saw you posting a Ads of a giants, I think the ads are correct as most print fit the bill to a Parker Giant. But Looking at the Ads, The Clip are a simple Parker clip AND Most of Us Have a Clip that said too Much. (compare your clip to the ads now.)

 

Anyone have a view on this??????

 

I personally have two Giants one big and One smaller. They are all fitted with a 14 gold clip same design like yours.

 

I will try hard to post (I have been trying to do that very long) Since I am bad in computering, I will try to get help. (Maybe some Ppl will help here)

[Rick Krantz]

  On 5/14/2010 at 11:56 PM, fibreglass_works said:

Hi John,

 

Tks for your head up. THis is very interesting topic here. How many Giants are there in the world as to date?????

 

I saw you posting a Ads of a giants, I think the ads are correct as most print fit the bill to a Parker Giant. But Looking at the Ads, The Clip are a simple Parker clip AND Most of Us Have a Clip that said too Much. (compare your clip to the ads now.)

 

Anyone have a view on this??????

 

I personally have two Giants one big and One smaller. They are all fitted with a 14 gold clip same design like yours.

 

I will try hard to post (I have been trying to do that very long) Since I am bad in computering, I will try to get help. (Maybe some Ppl will help here)

 

 

send me pictures, to my email address ckrantz3 AT msn.com and I will get them up for you

 

Best!

Rick

[Dennis B]

All right, OK, this may be considered a sacrilege, but here are the Bexley versions of the Giant and Ultra-Giant with a Parker "51" for size comp. Not much easier, if any, to find than the originals.

 

Dennis B

Ducking for Cover

 

http://www.parkvillepen.com/images/bexley/ultragiant-giant-51.jpg

[Vintagepens]

  On 5/14/2010 at 11:56 PM, fibreglass_works said:

I saw you posting a Ads of a giants, I think the ads are correct as most print fit the bill to a Parker Giant. But Looking at the Ads, The Clip are a simple Parker clip AND Most of Us Have a Clip that said too Much. (compare your clip to the ads now.)

 

Anyone have a view on this??????

 

I personally have two Giants one big and One smaller. They are all fitted with a 14 gold clip same design like yours.

 

Parker ads of the era are typically artist's renditions that differ significantly from the actual pens they ostensibly depict. The differences are especially notable in imprints -- including those on the clips. Giant clips nearly all have the full imprints, with PARKER and the patent date.

 

I have never seen a solid 14K Black Giant clip. Gold filled, yes.

[John Danza]

  On 5/15/2010 at 1:34 AM, Vintagepens said:

I have never seen a solid 14K Black Giant clip. Gold filled, yes.

 

Agreed David on the 14K clip. I've never seen a gold filled clip on a Giant either, but they were certainly available for this model as with any Jack Knife Safety model.

 

Attached is a fairly awful photo of an Ultra Giant, taken with my Blackberry at the Chicago Pen Show. This is the pen that we all discussed in this thread. It's a solid pen, and the little pen is quite spectatular just in the fact that it exists. I was able to look at the little pen under magnification and noted that there is no imprint on the barrel nor on the nib, which isn't surprising considering it's size. The pen was well under two inches in length, capped.

 

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/borderboss/Black%20Giant/UltraGiant.jpg

[Matchstickt1]

Waterman ED doll pens are 1 3/8 inches and often are imprinted on the barrel. If the barrel is not imprinted, there usually is an imprinted clip. Nib is not imprinted. So the question is whether the red pen is not supposed to be imprinted or is a replacement??

[Matchstickt1]

Here is a better picture of an Ultragiant compared to other large pens

[Matchstickt1]

Sorry- wrong picture. Previous picture is a demonstrator giant. Here is the ultra- sorry for the mixup

[John Danza]

  On 5/15/2010 at 10:18 PM, Matchstickt1 said:

Sorry- wrong picture. Previous picture is a demonstrator giant. Here is the ultra- sorry for the mixup

 

I believe the red pen in that picture is the Brad Torelli replica. It's larger in scale than the other one.

[Matchstickt1]

ActuALLY, i DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS particular RED CAME FROM, BUT tORRELLI DID NOT JUST MAKE A RED PEN-- i KNOW HE Had gotten A ORIGINAL RED BABY and exactly duplicated it. The ultra giants were mADE IN SO LOW NUMBERS that maybe the red pens varied in size???

[Glenn-SC]

  On 5/16/2010 at 2:58 PM, Matchstickt1 said:

ActuALLY, i DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS particular RED CAME FROM, BUT tORRELLI DID NOT JUST MAKE A RED PEN-- i KNOW HE Had gotten A ORIGINAL RED BABY and exactly duplicated it. The ultra giants were mADE IN SO LOW NUMBERS that maybe the red pens varied in size???

 

Are we having a bad "Shift Key" day?

[Rick Krantz]

  On 5/14/2010 at 11:56 PM, fibreglass_works said:

Hi John,

 

Tks for your head up. THis is very interesting topic here. How many Giants are there in the world as to date?????

 

I saw you posting a Ads of a giants, I think the ads are correct as most print fit the bill to a Parker Giant. But Looking at the Ads, The Clip are a simple Parker clip AND Most of Us Have a Clip that said too Much. (compare your clip to the ads now.)

 

Anyone have a view on this??????

 

I personally have two Giants one big and One smaller. They are all fitted with a 14 gold clip same design like yours.

 

I will try hard to post (I have been trying to do that very long) Since I am bad in computering, I will try to get help. (Maybe some Ppl will help here)

 

 

Here are some pictures from fibreglass_works....

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant1.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant2.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant3.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant4.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant5.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant6.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant7.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant8.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant9.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant10.jpg

[fibreglass_works]

Tks Rick,

 

I hope This data on the Giant are correct. Do share with me if any details are missing. I am lucky to have some nice collector departing their Parker under my care. One of them are DocNib, Grasshopper and more.....

[John Danza]

  On 5/17/2010 at 3:41 AM, Rick Krantz said:

Here are some pictures from fibreglass_works....

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant1.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant2.jpg

 

 

 

Hi Rick and "Fiber",

 

I'm curious about what appear to be sleeves around the feeds on these pens. What are they, and why are they there? I've never seen this kind of thing before.

 

Thanks,

John

[fibreglass_works]

IMHO, the tube (sleeves) after the section screw threads are part of the section build up and the top came with a curve feed while bottom shown without a curve feed BUT both are X'mas feed.

[Rick Krantz]

  On 5/17/2010 at 5:03 AM, John Danza said:

  On 5/17/2010 at 3:41 AM, Rick Krantz said:

Here are some pictures from fibreglass_works....

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant1.jpg

 

http://www.chiltonpens.com/images/blackgiant/giant2.jpg

 

 

 

Hi Rick and "Fiber",

 

I'm curious about what appear to be sleeves around the feeds on these pens. What are they, and why are they there? I've never seen this kind of thing before.

 

Thanks,

John

 

 

John, my giant has the same sleeve. It is strange, but I think it marks a late pen as well. I believe it was to actually make effort to increase the pen's overall performance, with the lucky curve. It might be Tony's website, that mentions it, but I do beleive it was the last couple of years that it was utilized.

[Rick Krantz]

Here's a direct quote from Tony's fine site...

 

"In a 1920 ad Parker boasts 285 styles of Parker pens. The same year any Jack Knife could now be fitted with one or two cap bands and a short version of the Black Giant was introduced. Late in 1920 a special christmas tree-feed was developed for the Black Giant, it was housed inside an enveloping sleeve, The barrel was really too wide to work with the ordinary Lucky Curve feed. The last of the Black Giants, offered in September 1920, had a blind cap and a Jack Knife cap with a washer clip, but no button filler Giants have been found. Possibly Parker was contemplating a Giant button filler when the pen was instead discontinued. There is however a blind capped Black Giant in the Parker archives, and this is referred to as a Trench pen!

Most Giant pens made by other companies were also discontinued during this time. "

[John Danza]

  On 5/17/2010 at 4:51 PM, Rick Krantz said:

Here's a direct quote from Tony's fine site...

 

"In a 1920 ad Parker boasts 285 styles of Parker pens. The same year any Jack Knife could now be fitted with one or two cap bands and a short version of the Black Giant was introduced. Late in 1920 a special christmas tree-feed was developed for the Black Giant, it was housed inside an enveloping sleeve, The barrel was really too wide to work with the ordinary Lucky Curve feed. The last of the Black Giants, offered in September 1920, had a blind cap and a Jack Knife cap with a washer clip, but no button filler Giants have been found. Possibly Parker was contemplating a Giant button filler when the pen was instead discontinued. There is however a blind capped Black Giant in the Parker archives, and this is referred to as a Trench pen!

Most Giant pens made by other companies were also discontinued during this time. "

 

Thanks very much Rick. I just checked and my Giant has the sleeve as well, but I never noticed it. The sleeve has a slot in it that lines up with the channel in the feed. It probably takes a ton of ink flow to keep that nib fed.

[fibreglass_works]

Hi all, I hope this topic will not die off from here.

I do hope most collector would chip in more information on this Giants.

 

Tks