Gold Web Vacumatics

[SwordsMightBeMightier]

Wondering if anyone out there might be able to help with some info on the Gold Web Vac pens. 

 

My understanding is that there are 3 sizes along with a pencil making 4 examples. Does anyone know the specific sizes of the 3 pens, length capped to be more specific. I know vacs have many different skews and sizes and that a 16th of an inch can be the difference between the standard or the junior etc.

 

Again it is my understanding that the Gold Web Vac had a Junior, a Slender Junior & a Long Slender Junior. The 3rd of those being the longest of the 3 but I've seen conflicting info as to whether the Slender Junior or the Junior was longer.

 

Anyway, any help would be much appreciated!

 

Thanks

[FarmBoy]

If you look in the 1936 Parker Catalog which can be found on the PCA website, you will find the following:

 

Junior Pen Brown Pearl (123) and Transparent Black (113) $5.00

Juniorette Pen Brown Pearl (121) and Transparent Black (111) $5.00

Junior Pencil Brown Pearl (621) and Transparent Black (611) $2.50

 

The Junior pen is larger in diameter than the Juniorette and slightly longer.  There is a third pen that is the Juniorette diameter and longer than the Junior.

 

Brown Pearl is called Golden Web and Transparent Black is called Reticulated by collectors.

 

 

[VacNut]

If you see all three of these pens together, the differences are more apparent. I wouldn’t  worry about the 1/16th” difference. The pens vary in length much more than that, and also from pen-to-pen of the same model. The dimensional differences may partly be from celluloid shrinkage, quality control, and differing manufacturing locations/ times.

I am unsure if the black reticulated vacs follow the same sizing.

 

Welcome down the rabbit hole, Alice….

[Mercian]

@SwordsMightBeMightier more information about the large number of similar sizes in which Vacumatics were manufactured (even before one allows for factors such as shrinkage etc) can be found at the model’s page on Tony Fischier’s website:

 

https://parkerpens.net/vacumatic.html

 

Edit to add:

I note that the page states “ *The Junior Slender Golden Web was actually longer than the "ordinary" Junior Slender Vacumatics.”