Can You Identify Nixon's Pen

[yolrgrand]

Can anyone identify this pen that President Nixon used to sign SALT I? Is it a Parker 51? Thanks

[Mr.Rene]

I can see a white dot...maybe some sheaffer pen desk set...

[Sallent]

That might be either a Parker 51 "I am not a Crook" Special Edition, or a Sheaffer "Watergate" Special Edition.

 

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[pokermind]

That might be either a Parker 51 "I am not a Crook" Special Edition, or a Sheaffer "Watergate" Special Edition.

to me it looks be either the Waterman HUAC or Wahl-Eversharp Checkers.

[ANM]

This is a bill signing pen used by Johnson. Perhaps Nixon used something similar. It is an Eversharp felt marker (made by Parker)

 

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii101/matthewsno/DSCN0556_zpsbbafb5be.jpg

[beak]

 

P51 too fat, but the other looks close.

[yolrgrand]

It looks like it has a lever filler on it

[Ron Z]

Most likely a Parker 45 felt tip. I've seen other Nixon pens in an antique shop, which were Parker 45s.

[hari317]

The cap appears to be cylindrical where as the barrel is sharply tapered. perhaps an Eversharp Skyline?

[vondauster]

I believe this other photo may help a little...

 

Will

[Uncle Red]

Look at Brezhnev's face. It's a pen, Leonid.

[MC_in_Houston]

Looks like a Parker Systemark to me.

 

As to Presidential pens, the variety seems endless. Pens were and are handed out for every occasion. Even law signature pens are no longer all that rare. It took Obama one and a half minutes to sign the "Obamacare" bill. He used 22 pens, which makes then a "limited edition" as opposed to a unique item.

 

Here are a couple of pages I found interesting.

 

http://www.loringpage.com/attpensetc/penbookupdate.html

 

 

 

 

..... And be on the lookout for those fake Kennedy pen reproductions.

[bernardo]

It looks like it has a lever filler on it

 

I see a lever too...

[bernardo]

But the pens on the table are definitely Sheaffers. The white dot is quite evident.

[Gloucesterman]

Nixon's pen?

Heck, I didn't even know that he finally went to prison!

 

As for his pen, it was probably Leavenworth (sp?).

 

Have you seen his Checker??