Lucky Curve Senior Doufold won

[Bo Bo Olson]

It looks like I've got a collection of Parkers ...when one is near or over 10, it is a collection.

 

Is a Pen I know nothing of...now that I have one I should read Lambrou's book.

Is that a Lucky Curve Senior Doufold...1928 change to three bands. Or is it a Deluxe?

I got it for the minimum after there were no bids. We let them know by e-mail we were #1 in that list.

I got a Parker Sonett too.

 

Well in 1970-71, while drooling on  black and gold a Sheaffer Snorkel, I was mugged by the silver P-75 brothers.

After getting a P-51 and Vac...I had had some P-45,s and now have three others, a P15, P-50 (nib is the body) and some English designed bottleneck flighter.

 Some other one (s) I don't know...I wasn't collecting Parker at the time, they just sort of happened.

Parker Sonnet on the right hand side. I have two P-75's.

 

An old pre-23 MB Safety pen..below,............ a Waterman rolled gold 0554 Gothic, and I really wanted that ink well., and this 1928 Parker Lucky Curve Senior Duofold....with a very nice flexible nib. Easy Full Flex at least,  could be a Wet Noodle...my 6-7th. It's hard to tell exactly with a quick thumbnail test at an auction house......but that was the fabled extinct 'flexi' Parker nib that Ill be glad to join the raves. Yes! It is true Parker once made a superflex nib.

Parker ancient Doufolds were very rare over here...so I never had a wish dream to one...or seen one...not to put my hands on it.

I had seen a Weak Kneed Wet Noodle like my pre-23 MB before...and got it as a broken pen parts gift...a real beater. That Francis restored for me.

Those pens four I never expected.

 

 

[Penguincollector]

  I’m so excited to see what this pen looks like cleaned up, and how it writes! Do you know what the second from the left pen on the tray is? 

[Bo Bo Olson]

,  Heidelberg once pen capitol of the world.... a Mercedes (has nothing really to do with the car, the owner once worked for MB.)...hard rubber, really discolored...Which can often be cured.

Mercedes had a warehouse down by the train station in my then small village on the border of Heidelberg.

I have one that is a maxi-semi-flex OM. Only the piston and the finial are aged browned.

It started at the auction set started at €80...some one wanted it less than 300.

10 collectible fountain pens and ballpoint pens in a display case, Faber-Castell and other fountain pens in mother-of-pearl celluloid, nib marked with jumping buck (springing up the wrong side of the nib, a fake Bock but semi-flex still good.) and "Edelchrom" Stainless steel. (manufacturer according to consignor research Baum, Cologne-Lilienthal around 1930/ 40); 5x Faber-Castell:??????? fountain pen Osmia "Mercedes" brown with 14kt gold nib, fountain pen Osmia Extra, nib Supra 140; Fountain pen Osmia with Morton nib cubed..., fountain pen with 18kt gold nib and barrel in sterling silver, fountain pen EF584; Fountain pen "Diplomat" 1922 (not from there but start of company), barrel worn (nib nice...don't remember if regular flex or semi, but a heavy pen....; 2x Aurora: fountain pen with 14kt gold nib and twist ballpoint pen; Parker Sonnet fountain pen with 18kt gold nib, marbled, plus a nib blank, all together in a glazed wooden display case

10 sammelwürdige Füller und Kugelschreiber in Schaukasten, Faber-Castell u.a. Füller in Perlmutt-Celluloid, Feder gemarkt mit springendem Bock (fake Bock but still good.) und "Edelchrom" (Hersteller lt. Einlieferer-Recherche Baum, Köln-Lilienthal um 1930/40); 5x Faber-Castell: Füller Osmia "Mercedes" braun mit 14kt Goldfeder, Füller Osmia Extra, Feder Supra 140; Füller Osmia mit Morton Feder, Füller mit 18kt Goldfeder und Hülse in Sterlingsilber, Füller EF584; Füller "Diplomat" 1922, Hülse abgegriffen; 2x Aurora: Füller mit 14kt Goldfeder und Drehkugelschreiber; Füller Parker Sonnet mit 18kt Goldfeder, marmoriert, dazu ein Feder-Rohling, alle zusammen in verglastem Schaukasten aus Holz

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I never ever started out thinking of a ball point collection, but have added two more.

 

Unless there are other pens I don't really see any as 5 X Faber Castell, even if they ended up owning Osmia. I'll see what the papers the woman who owned them say....

 

That MB nib must be a #12 or 15. It's the biggest I've ever seen.

[Penguincollector]

  Will you please post pictures with the nibs showing when you have them in your house? I am so curious!

[Bo Bo Olson]

As well as I can...that Morton nib....is a grail, that I never expected.

Someone who had an ancient Kaweco ended up putting it on an Osmia...a different company.

Kaweco imported Morton nibs to be the best nib in Germany from 1900-1914.

April of 1914, Morton sold Kaweco machinery and sent pen tecs...August started WW1, and the Americans went home.

So Kaweco had learned how to hand hammer the nibs, stick a piece of potato on the tip so the iridium-rare earth complex wouldn't burn when annealing the nib.

As said, Thomas our  German pen scholar/Kaweco on the com, said was the best nib in Germany until the company was taken  over in 1930/31 when the owner went belly up because of the 1929 crash, not the pen company. So that high labor cost nib died.

From then out a Kaweco nib was just second class like Soennecken and MB.

 

I'll be using that nib with so much care and anticipation.

[Bo Bo Olson]

The beautiful Sonnet won.....also, helps push my assorted old Parker pens into a collection, that snuck up on me. When one has ten Parker's,  it is a collection.

Parker Sonnet Lacque Firedance Red & Black Marbled Fountain Pen - 
Cartridge/Converter Fill - Converter Included - Ca.1996

The red marbled pen next to the sterling silver Faber Castel on the right hand side.

[Mercian]

8 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Parker Sonnet Lacque Firedance Red & Black Marbled Fountain Pen - Cartridge/Converter Fill - Converter Included - Ca.1996

 

I have two questions:

1- what is the production date code on your Sonnet?
Pens from 1996 should have a code ending in Y:

1996 Q1 = IIIY

1996 Q2 = IIY

1996 Q3 = IY

1996 Q4 = Y

 

2- which converter did you get?
The Parker converter that I regard as being my 'best' one - because it offers the best functionality - is one that came to me in a Vector 'calligraphy' set from the mid-1990s.
It is a 'cheap' slide converter, but it has a steel tube as its ink-agitation device.

This doesn't ever block the feed, unlike those of the later ones which have ball-bearing ink-agitators.
And the 'deluxe' twist converters don't have any ink-agitators, so inks' surface tension can result in nib-starvation 🙄

[Bo Bo Olson]

2 hours ago, Mercian said:

later ones which have ball-bearing ink-agitators.
And the 'deluxe' twist converters don't have any ink-agitators, so inks' surface tension can result in nib-starvation 🙄

Yep will have to dismantle a Pelikan cartridge, which I have, for the little plastic ball as soon as I decide to ink it.

 

On the side of France on the bottom of the cap is IIII........looked it up...1994 - IIII III II I...so would be first quarter of '94 right after the pen came out with that color.

It is mint looking, the converter had been used.

 

18k/750 nib. Is eyeballed a B, in it's wider than my P-75's M.

 

I would not have thought of looking for the year it was made, until reminded over in Parker section to look for when the pen was made. Thanks.

[Mercian]

7 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

On the side of France on the bottom of the cap is IIII.

It is mint looking, the converter had been used.

 

That code corresponds to 1994 Q1.
Which makes your pen one of the earliest run of Sonnet production!

 

For more info, see this ↓ link to Tony Fischier's ParkerPens.net

https://parkerpens.net/sonnet.html

 

😊

[Bo Bo Olson]

I was just there, linked by  Penguincollector.

The Aurora is an Optima...sort of a hard semi-flex...or in between semi & regular flex. Must be an Aurora B, in it looks M....Aurora use to be the narrowest Euro nib...a bit fatter than a Sailor. My first one....

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There is much more flex to that  Sonnet 18k nib than I expected...at least a springy Regular flex.

[W Mitchell]

Apart from the lovely pens the inkwell is exquisite, a nice companion to a vintage writing desk.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thank you,

I've 30-40 old inkwells and a other things. Many are in the first part of the paper section.

I was happy to get the rolled gold 1918-30's Waterman Gothic for what I'd expected the inkwell to go for, so I got over like a big cat.

The 800 silver dip pen polished up nicely.

Sometimes when one goes to a live auction one can get over....even with telephone and computer.....oh for the Good Ol'Days.....of everyone getting calluses on their keister; bidding against the Hall; not the world.

There are thousands of auction houses, I keep hoping one of the two gets skipped. No luck on either, outside of pens; and not inkwell's any more. (I have place for only two more inkwell or inkwell sets as long as they are half this size. ...Got over on this one too.

One don't see the opening lever, because a stonemason copmpany did it and trued up a quadratish Ink Well set and the bottom of an Art Decco for €50, in we were not in the hurry. Sometimes the picture just won't at any price right it's self.

The clock and pure Bauhaus inkwell set.

And this got prettied and trued up.

That one was back in the good ol'days, cheap flea market buys of €15 or 20 in a auction Hall. One notices things after the Hot Flash of Buy has passed.

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That little round green rubber cup in the upside down picture, has a sponge...in Germany we still lick stamps, but a small astray and a sponge will do for starting pens that sat too long...jab twice and go.....beats the hell out of half a shot glass.

[W Mitchell]

Very unique inkwell sets, alas just do not have the room for a collection of such things. Cramped with the few inkwells I have.

[Bo Bo Olson]

As long as you have the inserts you are good to go.

I am not. 

I am trying to find the money to find a Glasshutte...in Bavaria or Check Republic....where they will do the measuring, instead of trying to do the measuring at home and send for ink well glass $$$ inserts from England. Starting at 15 pounds a insert bought in hopes it fits. Then there's pen repair.

If I wasn't greedy and bought pens...I could have done most of the repairs, and found a route to old Czechoslovakia glass blowing factory towns.