Parker Vacumatic Pencils Sales Back In The Day

[JotterAddict62]

Greetings All FPN

First off if the FPN Masters need to relocate this post to the history section fine with me.

 

I am re reading the Parker Vacumatic book pages 258-259 design pencil section and it is written that pen sets were available but only 1 in 6 customers purchased a pen set. Now in the middle of the depression a person would only buy a FP and not a pencil. My question to you all as a pen collector/user would you buy a Vac pencil today to make a FP set or would you not even care to ? Now I see Vac pencils for sale online on different sites at a wide price range I look for the bargains & cap styles and purchase as need be.

I have at least a 2 pencils for every fountain pen that I have so I go the other way I look for a FP to match the pencil.

 

I just like putting pen sets together and it's a fun way of pen hunting in the wild & online.

 

Ken

 

 

 

[pennut]

Ken, I totally agree with you. I am always looking for pencils to match any fountain pens I have. I always try to buy the fountain pen and pencil as a set when possible. However, it is an enjoyable challenge to find pencils for those pens I have bought without a matching pencil. I have one vac pencil that I especially like which is the burgundy color with red lead.

[Florida Blue]

I don't have any pencils in my collection and I don't actively seek out or collect them. I really only use fountain pens.

 

However, some pencils are much rarer and harder to get a hold of than their fountain pen counterparts. Vac Maxima pencils especially.

Edited July 21, 2014 by Florida Blue

[JotterAddict62]

One other thing I have notice is that all the different style mechanisms for the pencils.

I try to swap out parts to make a complete pencil and sometimes I come across another Mechanism .

I just love a challenge to do more research on the pencils.