What Parkers Have Joined Your Collection Lately?

[JotterAddict62]

Bought a number of Parker Jotters on evil bay this past week or two. 

A Parker screwdriver pen

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Parker-Jotters-Pens-screwdriver/184746208447

First year Jotter flighter with imprint

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Parker-ad-ballpoint-pens-2-with-rotating-message-1-Jotter/353440208688

Parker lot [ the one I wanted was the coral 2nd gen Jotter with imprint ] The rest was a bonus.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-Vintage-Parker-Items-6-Pens-1-Lady-Duofold-Fountain-Pen-1-Refill/224414712006

There were for other auctions I won since 4/7/21

Maybe I'll post a photo of my ever changing Parker Jotter salesman pens in a 20 pen case.

I'll do that tomorrow.

 

Ken

[readytotalk]

Duofold Senior Permanite Jade... was Jade at least)).

[inkstainedruth]

On 4/13/2021 at 1:08 AM, northstar said:

Hello everyone,

 

Latest parker to join my collection is a second Parker 75 Vermeil:

 

Is that actually vermeil?  Because in the photo it looks to be just sterling silver with gold trim.  Not that that's a bad thing -- looks like my 75 -- unless you PAID for it to be vermeil...

I have seen photos of the vermeil Ciselé 75s, so I know they exist (but frankly I think the sterling is prettier...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

[inkstainedruth]

On 4/18/2021 at 6:33 PM, alexwi said:

 

What exactly are you "hunting" for? There are a gazillion P75's on ebay.

 

alex

Agreed.  That's where I got mine from.  But I did a whole lot of research first, after passing on one at an estate sale a couple of years ago (I just didn't know enough at the time to know if $100 US was a good price for one -- turned out it was pretty fair,  but I just wasn't comfortable enough to plunking down that much money...).  Ended up paying more for the one I got, but got what I wanted (Ciselé in Sterling silver, B nib, old-style converter), and amazingly got it for the minimum because nobody was watching that listing but me.... 

Oddly, I don't actually like most of the colors/designs.  But after seeing that Ciselé sterling one at the estate sale, I now understood why people like 75s.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[inkstainedruth]

No pix yet (didn't have time the past couple of days, and today the weather didn't cooperate with trying to take decent photos with my phone), but on Saturday I got what I initially THOUGHT was another black 45.  Only after I got home realized that it doesn't actually say "Parker" anywhere on the barrel or section; the cap appears to be that of one of the "made by Parker" late Eversharp models (it's got the Parker logo on the cap but also says "EVERSHARP" and doesn't have the arrow clip, but a straight clip which has a small medallion at the top which says "E").  And may not have the removable nib assembly, like on a regular 45.  

I tried to do some research, but can't tell if it's an Eversharp Big E, an Eversharp Challenger, or some other crossover model (from the little I've read, the Challenger doesn't have a metal ring between the barrel and section, which this does; and the one photo I've seen of a Big E doesn't show the ring either).  I've checked both Tony Fischier's site and Richard Binder's, so far.  So if anyone knows of any other sites I should be looking at, that would be really helpful, and thanks in advance.

I haven't had a chance to try flushing it (there's an empty Quink "tap" cartridge" installed at the moment, so I'm presuming that any (slimmer) Parker converter or any other Quink cartridge should fit.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[TheRedBeard]

18 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Agreed.  That's where I got mine from.  But I did a whole lot of research first, after passing on one at an estate sale a couple of years ago (I just didn't know enough at the time to know if $100 US was a good price for one -- turned out it was pretty fair,  but I just wasn't comfortable enough to plunking down that much money...).  Ended up paying more for the one I got, but got what I wanted (Ciselé in Sterling silver, B nib, old-style converter), and amazingly got it for the minimum because nobody was watching that listing but me.... 

Oddly, I don't actually like most of the colors/designs.  But after seeing that Ciselé sterling one at the estate sale, I now understood why people like 75s.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I already commented on that - there are many 75s on eBay but when  you start asking right questions to sellers you may find some details that do not meet your buyer's (or collector's) criteria...

IMO, P75 Sterling Cisele is one of the most beautiful pens ever designed and made though I also like other GP and SP finishes of some P75s. 

I am quite indifferent to lacquer 75s but with one exception: black lacquer GT.

[TheRedBeard]

19 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Is that actually vermeil?  Because in the photo it looks to be just sterling silver with gold trim.  Not that that's a bad thing -- looks like my 75 -- unless you PAID for it to be vermeil...

I have seen photos of the vermeil Ciselé 75s, so I know they exist (but frankly I think the sterling is prettier...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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Some colours and hues may not appear correctly on photos, especially rather subtle ones.

When I see ebay listings with pens described as in Vermeil finish I always ask sellers directly to clarify and confirm a colour and it helps. 

[bunnspecial]

As much as I love my original Duofolds, Vacs, and 51s(the Vacs in particular, although the OB 51 is up there), I made the plunge about a month back and bought a Centennial "Big Red."

 

So far, it's killing it for me. The nib is an F, which is normally smaller than I like, but it has the perfect amount of feedback(feels and sounds like a sharp #2 pencil) that it's ALMOST unseated my favorite MB 146 as my favorite pen in my collection. It's been in daily use since getting it.

 

 

[Heinkle]

36 minutes ago, bunnspecial said:

As much as I love my original Duofolds, Vacs, and 51s(the Vacs in particular, although the OB 51 is up there), I made the plunge about a month back and bought a Centennial "Big Red."

 

So far, it's killing it for me. The nib is an F, which is normally smaller than I like, but it has the perfect amount of feedback(feels and sounds like a sharp #2 pencil) that it's ALMOST unseated my favorite MB 146 as my favorite pen in my collection. It's been in daily use since getting it.

 

 

❤️

[northstar]

On 4/21/2021 at 11:47 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Is that actually vermeil?  Because in the photo it looks to be just sterling silver with gold trim.  Not that that's a bad thing -- looks like my 75 -- unless you PAID for it to be vermeil...

I have seen photos of the vermeil Ciselé 75s, so I know they exist (but frankly I think the sterling is prettier...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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Hello Ruth,

 

Here are a few photos for the vermeil stamp and also the vermeil next to a sterling pen.

 

 

 

 

Best regards,

Northstar

[Teterman2005]

Just picked up my second vac, getting hooked on these beauties 

[Ethelios]

I picked a new Parker IM (new model) from the drawer if that counts And oh my, how could I abandon this writer for so long? The cartridge has zero chill, it writes for several days nonstop. Now I'm spoiled and won't take small cartridges compared to it.

 

The rest may be getting the boot, sadly. Not my best partners, it kinda hurts to let go.

[loganrah]

Parker 51 Vacumatic with a lovely medium stub nib from Greg Minuskin. My first vacumatic. Now I have one of each major generation: vacumatic, standard aerometric, late aerometric with the flat ends.

Can't quite work out whether the colour is forest green or teal green: couldn't get it to photograph properly, here it looks much bluer than it does in person. 

 

[Chuchulan]

Hi L, lovely 51 Vac, my favourite style. I am completely confused after many years of collecting and refurbing 51s regarding the so-called colour charts of these pens. Your pen looks very blue in the photos but appears a little dark for Nassau Green, apparently the only green colour Vacumatic P51. 

Possibly a Cedar Blue, but you say it is more green. The Nassau Green is a considerably lighter green than the very dark Forest Green, which in some light can look Black initially. However, the Forest Green only came available in the Aerometric model, or that is what the conceived wisdom says. However, I have a 1948 Forest Green Vacumatic P51, which is identical in colour to FG Aerometrics i have had.

I believe that the regular colour charts should be taken as a guide only, as Parker USA produced a number of prototypes and trial colours which when added to the slight variations in batch colours create a multitude of confusion for us 70+ years later, eg., I have a USA P51 Vacumatic Brown/Burgundy with no date code, as the later Newhaven P51 Burgundys were a much redder colour, the Americans called it Blood Burgundy.

I have found that adjusting the White Balance on your camera and using opposing colour backgrounds, for Green pens use a Red background, will give an accurate portrait colour of a pen.

cheers, T.

 

 

 

[JotterAddict62]

No pen, however I just bought these little gems.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/154450628266

[Mercian]

Over the last month I have bought:
a 2011 Parker Urban in glossy black lacquer with chrome trim with  'F' nib;
a 2015 Parker Urban in 'Chiselled Ebony', CT , 'F' nib;

an early 1970s Parker 45 'Flighter' with a 14k gold 'M' nib.

The 45 was sold to me as 'NOS', and it is cosmetically perfect.
But has a problem with its nib that is equal-parts annoying and mysterious.
It looks perfect - under 20× magnification, from every angle - but it sounds scratchy (even on Rhodia), and without applying pressure to the nib it writes with a line that is drier and narrower than the two 'EF' LAMY Z50 nibs that I own 🤷‍♂️ If I apply pressure the gold nib's tines flex, and it writes with a much wider and wetter line.
On uncoated papers it writes dry and smeary, sounds and feels scratchy, and picks up fibres. When it picks up fibres it turns in to a blobby Broad nib.

I am baffled by this, and frustrated. So will be starting a thread about it to ask for advice.

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

1 hour ago, JotterAddict62 said:

No pen, however I just bought these little gems.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/154450628266

those are really cool. congrats

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

12 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Over the last month I have bought:
a 2011 Parker Urban in glossy black lacquer with chrome trim with  'F' nib;
a 2015 Parker Urban in 'Chiselled Ebony', CT , 'F' nib;

an early 1970s Parker 45 'Flighter' with a 14k gold 'M' nib.

The 45 was sold to me as 'NOS', and it is cosmetically perfect.
But has a problem with its nib that is equal-parts annoying and mysterious.
It looks perfect - under 20× magnification, from every angle - but it sounds scratchy (even on Rhodia), and without applying pressure to the nib it writes with a line that is drier and narrower than the two 'EF' LAMY Z50 nibs that I own 🤷‍♂️ If I apply pressure the gold nib's tines flex, and it writes with a much wider and wetter line.
On uncoated papers it writes dry and smeary, sounds and feels scratchy, and picks up fibres. When it picks up fibres it turns in to a blobby Broad nib.

I am baffled by this, and frustrated. So will be starting a thread about it to ask for advice.

Sounds like the tines might be too tight together. I've had a similar problem with other pens. It should correct the dryness, and fibres won't get pinched between the tines as badly.

[Mercian]

1 minute ago, IThinkIHaveAProblem said:

Sounds like the tines might be too tight together. I've had a similar problem with other pens. It should correct the dryness, and fibres won't get pinched between the tines as badly.

 

In that case, it should be a really simple thing to fix 😊

 

Ta very muchly 👍

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

16 minutes ago, Mercian said:

 

In that case, it should be a really simple thing to fix 😊

 

Ta very muchly 👍

I would suggest you take it slowly for two reasons:

1) if you go too far, it can be just as bad or cause damage

2) i could be completely out to lunch 

 

good luck.