What pen(s) are you using today?

[antares1966]

2 hours ago, penwarrior32 said:

Using 2x hand me down FP today. 

Parker and sheaffer FP (guess should be vintage pens?)

Parker inked with pilot momiji (autumn leaves) and sheaffer inked with pilot shin ryoku (forest green). 

 

Any kind hearted expert can identify the pens?

The Shaffer I’m pretty sure is a Targa, circa 1980s

[penwarrior32]

6 minutes ago, antares1966 said:

The Shaffer I’m pretty sure is a Targa, circa 1980s

Just googled to cross check. Looks like you are right. 

Thanks mate. 

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, penwarrior32 said:

Using 2x hand me down FP today. 

Parker and sheaffer FP (guess should be vintage pens?)

Parker inked with pilot momiji (autumn leaves) and sheaffer inked with pilot shin ryoku (forest green). 

 

Any kind hearted expert can identify the pens?

 
 

  Sheaffer Targa black matte 1003 later version

 Parker 75, not sure what the pattern is called, maybe grain d’orge?

 

[penwarrior32]

4 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

 
 

  Sheaffer Targa black matte 1003 later version

 Parker 75, not sure what the pattern is called, maybe grain d’orge?

 

Just googled to cross check. Parker 75 grain d'orge barley corn pattern. Bingo.

Have a great day. Thanks 

[Penguincollector]

9 minutes ago, penwarrior32 said:

Just googled to cross check. Parker 75 grain d'orge barley corn pattern. Bingo.

Have a great day. Thanks 

  Oh good, glad to be of use.

[penwarrior32]

7 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  Oh good, glad to be of use.

Handed down by my mum. Deeply appreciate the help. 

[Penguincollector]

15 minutes ago, penwarrior32 said:

Handed down by my mum. Deeply appreciate the help. 

💙

[Mercian]

1 hour ago, penwarrior32 said:

Just googled to cross check. Parker 75 grain d'orge barley corn pattern. Bingo.

With my ‘Joyless Pedant’ hat firmly on, I feel compelled to say that your Parker isn’t a 75 - it is a more-expensive model called the ‘Premier’, which was based on the 75.

The cap band and the finials are different.

 

E.g. Here are two photo that show my own two Parker 75 ‘Place Vendôme’ pens in the gold-plated ‘Grain d’Orge’ finish.

 

Note the ‘stacked coin’ finials on the caps & barrels of the 75s, and the detail of the gold pens’ broad, single cap-bands.

 

Also, see the following link, from Lih-Tah Wong’s excellent site devoted to the Parker 75, for details about the more-expensive model called ‘Premier’:

https://parker75.com//Reference/Parker75_Ref.htm

You may need to click on ‘Parker 75’ in the column on the left, then on ‘75 family tree branches’, and then select ‘Premier’.

 

Slàinte,
M.

 

Edit to add:

The wide gold band on the grip-section of your Premier suggests that it was made in the late 1980s. There ought to be a one- or two-letter date code on the back of its cap band. If you tell us what those two letters are, we can tell you which year, and in which quarter of that year, your pen was made.
E.g. my gold 75s bear the code ‘IE’.  Unusually, this code was actually used twice during the 1980s, because Parker changed its code system half-way through that decade.
My BP is from 1988 Q3, but I’m pretty certain that my FP is from 1984 Q3.

[penwarrior32]

@Mercian, looks like you are right.

Double bingo. 

Thanks mate.

 

@Penguincollector, you were so close. 

Cheers

Parker Premier Fountain Pen Grain D'orge Gold Barley 18Kt

 @MercianNot sure whether this is the code that you are referring to?

 

Edited April 18 by penwarrior32

[Penguincollector]

Good call @Mercian, I forgot about the Premier! 

[pan101]

Today's pen will be a Montblanc Carrera, 1970's orange plastic chic! Diamine's Ancient Copper ink.

[ruby.monkey]

Today my Aurora 888P is stretching its legs. It's fitted with a Platinum converter instead of the two cartridges so I get to enjoy the refill reminder rattling as I write.

[RedPie]

😊

[pan101]

6 minutes ago, RedPie said:

😊

I love the Jinhao 159, such a good pen and such vfm. Though your's looks slightly different to mine at the clip and cap thread.

[RedPie]

1 minute ago, pan101 said:

I love the Jinhao 159, such a good pen and such vfm. Though your's looks slightly different to mine at the clip and cap thread.

Do you have the x159? The 159 is a little different than the x159. 

[pan101]

2 minutes ago, RedPie said:

Do you have the x159? The 159 is a little different than the x159. 

Yes mine is an X159, I didn't know Jinhao also did a 159 and an X159.

[RedPie]

Just now, pan101 said:

Yes mine is an X159, I didn't know Jinhao also did a 159 and an X159.

Both are wonderful pens. In any color!

[Mercian]

11 hours ago, penwarrior32 said:

MercianNot sure whether this is the code that you are referring to?

That box containing an arrow with a ‘P’ either side of it is not a date code.
It is the French manufacturer’s stamp that indicates that the manufacturer of the certified/hallmarked precious-metal item is the ‘Parker Pen’ company.

It may be that the Premier was never produced with date codes on it (or one might be located somewhere elsewhere on the pen, e.g. on the threaded part of the grip-section, which is normally hidden inside the pen’s barrel).

 

Btw, I’ve been looking on the website that I linked to earlier, and what I said before about your pen ‘dating to the late 1980s’ is wrong.
That section band was used on the 75 during the late 1980s, but it looks as though the Premier was always produced with the wide gold band around its grip section.

 

So, perhaps it is only possible to say that your pen was made some time between 1983 and 1991, and that we cannot narrow-down that date any further. Sorry.

[MarcoA63]

Platinum 3776 Century in Chartres Blue, M nib

[inkstainedruth]

@Penguincollector People keep complaining about the stench of Noodler's pens but I have never had a problem -- and I'm the one my mom used to have sniff the leftover roast beef to see if it had around too long in the fridge and had gone bad....

As for me, today's pens (so far):

(1) Lamy al-Star (Azure SE, Hanzi nib) -- still with Lamy Pink Cliff.

(2) Parker Vector (Shrek series "Puss in Boots", M nib) -- still with Robert Oster Bishop to King.

(3) vintage Waterman Ideal BHR ringtop (now faded to a grayish brown, F? nib) -- just refilled a little while ago with Waterman Absolute Brown.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth