Help Dating A Parker 45

[Joarder]

Greetings from Dhaka, Bangladesh! This is my first post and I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to Parker history. As you might know, the subcontinent was enamoured with Parker pens the last century and they can still be found in every corner. I was on the look-out for a vintage pen when I received this as a gift from a friend.

Well, I'm pretty sure its a Parker 45 with a steel cap and a Burgundy barrel. It has a steel fine nib, and a squeeze converter. Unfortunately this doesn't have the date marks. The cap has PARKER below the clip and the Parker logo and MADE IN ENGLAND on the opposite side. It was uninked or so I've been told. I've looked at Richard Binder's website and and parker pens dot com. The more I look, the more I get confused as I'm not sure whether the pens were made in England at all; and the lack of the date markers.


It's probably a shot in the dark but I feel like I need to know its history, whether it was from before our independence, 1971. Any help shall be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Joarder

[pen lady]

Parker stopped putting date codes on pens from the mid-50's to 1980, so the only way you can judge is by looking at design details. Check out Parkerpens.net for further information. BTW the 45 is a great workhorse of a pen.

[mitto]

The parker 45 was introduced in 1960 while the datecoding of Parker pens had been stopped in the 1950s. The datecoding on Parking pens was revived only in mid 1979 and 1980 (in two different production regions).

 

As pen lady said above, pens manufactured between mid 1950s and 1979/80 lacked the datecodes. Parker 45s produced in this period are judged, as for period of production, by design changes and especially by the different types of cap top tassies/clip screws.

 

Would you be able to provide a picture of the top of the cap of your pen?

 

Meanwhile reading this FPN thread might be helpful.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/283825-dates-for-the-parker-45/

Edited March 26, 2018 by mitto

[Joarder]

The parker 45 was introduced in 1960 while the datecoding of Parker pens had been stopped in the 1950s. The datecoding on Parking pens was revived only in mid 1979 and 1980 (in two different production regions).

 

As pen lady said above, pens manufactured between mid 1950s and 1979/80 lacked the datecodes. Parker 45s produced in this period are judged, as for period of production, by design changes and especially by the different types of cap top tassies/clip screws.

 

Would you be able to provide a picture of the top of the cap of your pen?

 

Meanwhile reading this FPN thread might be helpful.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/283825-dates-for-the-parker-45/

 

Thank you for the link. I couldn't search for any 45 threads as it's less than the three word minimum. Looking at Spikey Mike's page I was able to date using the cap to 1970 onwards to before 1990 (when England changed to U.K.).

[Joarder]

Parker stopped putting date codes on pens from the mid-50's to 1980, so the only way you can judge is by looking at design details. Check out Parkerpens.net for further information. BTW the 45 is a great workhorse of a pen.

Thank you! Yes it's a terrific pen! I've already written hundreds of pages with mine.

[mitto]

Thank you for the link. I couldn't search for any 45 threads as it's less than the three word minimum. Looking at Spikey Mike's page I was able to date using the cap to 1970 onwards to before 1990 (when England changed to U.K.).

I would dare correct you by saying that your pen, if in case it doesn't have a date code, may not be from a period later than 1979/1980 (e.g.1980-1990) because in such a case it would have had the date stamp on the cap.

 

Enjoy your pen.

[Captivelight]

With out looking at the top of the cap the best you can say is that this pen dates from a time period somewhere between 1960 and 1979

 

With a look at the top of the cap you could narrow this down to either 1960 - 70 0r 70 to 79 depending on what clip screw is fitted.

 

Have a look here:http://parker45pens.com/dating-time-line/

Edited March 28, 2018 by Spikey Mike

[Runnin_Ute]

Of five 45's with caps (#6 is a desk pen) four are conical and one dimpled. One of my Flighters is without the plastic end cap. (dimpled cap) The other needs the internal barrel sleeve that has the plastic end cap. Or is that two different parts Spikey Mike?

[Captivelight]

http://parker45pens.com/parker-45-flighter/ - Have a look at this page.

 

The barrel inner sleeve and end cap are two different parts, in the earlier pens it runs the whole length of the barrel and has the threads that hold shell section to the barrel as well as a threaded end for the end cap to screw on to. Later versions had a brass thread for the shell section and a smaller plug and screw end cap. Later versions lost the end cap all together.

[Joarder]

Thanks again everybody for the help.