Parker 45 Questions

[kansaskyle]

It's always hard to precisely date the earlier 45's. One of the pointers is the cap at the end of the barrel ... plastic before around 1970, Chrome or Gold from 1970 to around 1979 after which the cap vanished. Another pointer is the clip screw on the cap ... original pre-1970 ones were a simple conical design, after 1970/71 they became dimpled with round area designed to fit the Parker Personal Touch stickers that you could use to personalise your pen.

 

It looks like your pen has a black plastic end cap on the body, which would make it an earlier model pre-1970. If it has a simple conical clip screw on the cap then it's a rough date of 1964 - 70. If it has a dimpled clip screw then you are looking at a transitional pen and you can narrow the date down to around 1970 - 71. After this Parker got rid of the black plastic end cap and replaced them with gold or silver.

Probably not a collectors piece but a good honest work horse that deserves a little more then $2!

 

 

The pen does have the black plastic end cap, which the UK mentioned above site seemed to indicate it was from 1964. I took a pic of the cap, and it looks like the dimpled one, but in gold.

 

I was born in 1971, so it would be kind of neat to have a birth year pen!

 

Cap

 

 

[Captivelight]

LOL ... so you have a pen that's probably around the same age as you, works just fine and cost you all of $2 - can't be bad!

[kansaskyle]

LOL ... so you have a pen that's probably around the same age as you, works just fine and cost you all of $2 - can't be bad!

 

Right! It was a great, inexpensive find for me, and I had fun learning about it today with everyone's helpful posts!

[RMN]

Basically, a good working P45 is all the fountainpen you really need. Any more extra is luxury....

 

D.ick

[Sasha Royale]

Great price. Take care of it. It should last forty years.

Give it a flush and dry once in a while. If you put it away, store it clean, with the

cap off, so the friction/pressure does not deform the plastic section.

[MME]

Hello to everyone,

 

Recently i got from a local antiques store a FOREST GREEN Parker 45. I would like you to help me (at least roughly) date it.

-top of cap is dimpled designed;

-on the cap it is marked anterior "Parker" and back-"Made in England" and Parker arrow sign;

-NO DATE MARKS;

-nib is stainless steel;

-barrel is intense forest green ABS plastic;

 

Most information i found was about flighters, almost nothing about this particular model, so every piece of information would be highly apreciated. Thanks in advance!

Edited September 25, 2015 by MME

[mitto]

Hello to everyone,

 

Recently i got from a local antiques store a FOREST GREEN Parker 45. I would like you to help me (at least roughly) date it.

-top of cap is dimpled designed;

-on the cap it is marked anterior "Parker" and back-"Made in England" and Parker arrow sign;

-NO DATE MARKS;

-nib is stainless steel;

-barrel is intense forest green ABS plastic;

 

Most information i found was about flighters, almost nothing about this particular model, so every piece of information would be highly apreciated. Thanks in advance!

The 70s if the pen has a dimpled tassie.

 

See here :

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/217852-parker-45-starting-list/

[Captivelight]

Have a look at this site for all things Parker 45: https://parker45pens.wordpress.com/

 

As Mitto has already said --- the 70's. It's hard to be more exact then that, especially with the plastic pens which were more or less unchanged from the 70's onwards. This one falls into the time bracket between the dimpled top, so around 1970, and predates the date stamp which started in 80 - so somewhere in that 10 years your pen was made.

[MME]

Many thanks to everybody for informations! I am satisfied with the answers, thanks again!