Snagged This Week From An Estate

[jinzo1988]

Poor cellphone pic is prior to cleaning - fresh out of the mailer box. Pens top to bottom:

 

Double jeweled Parker 51 - dated 2nd Q 1944 - in Nassau Green (great color match of blind cap/barrel/hood). Gold wash in clutch ring, gold fill cap has dings and is missing the jewel. Plastic filler with diamond mark on plunger knob.

 

First Year Parker 51 - dated 4th Q 1941 on blind cap. Coin silver cap, grey jewels, metal speedline filler.

 

First Year Parker 51 - dated 3rd Q 1941 on blind cap. Sterling silver cap, grey jewels, plastic filler.

 

Golden Pearl Vac Major - two tone nib dated 4th Q 1942. No date mark on barrel, plastic filler

 

Cleaned up pics later.

Edited August 28, 2014 by jinzo1988

[ANM]

Quite a fine catch. Congratulations.

[Brian K]

Oh my...you done good.

[Florida Blue]

Dang…. two first year 51s!!!

 

And….. one in Nassau Green!!!!

 

You are sumgai of the century.

[inkstainedruth]

Why do things like this never happen to me?

I would have been excited by one of those -- but *four*? Yeah, you ARE a sumgai.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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[sd10521]

Great find!

Have fun cleaning them up and enjoy them in good health.

[pennut]

Please post pics after they are cleaned up. They are going to be beautiful. Great find!!!!!!

[PAKMAN]

Nice haul ! How much did they set you back?

[Hooker56]

Wow! Very Nice! Congratulations!

[Brian K]

Nice haul ! How much did they set you back?

 

I dunno, Perry, looks like whatever he paid it pushed him forward. You can find some incredible deals at estate sales. My father and stepmother got my 1948 P51 vac demonstrator at an estate sale for only $7.50. I've done some soaking to get rid of most of the blue ink dried in it and once I send it to Danny Fudge, even if it costs twice his usual fee to fix, I will have a pen worth considerably more than was invested in it. The fact that he said they were from an estate sale is what caught my eye because of the luck Dad has had picking up pens for me.

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[ac12]

The problem is in the "clean up."

If done wrong or poorly, it could kill the potential resale value.

[Apothic]

Yowza!

[KBeezie]

The problem is in the "clean up."

If done wrong or poorly, it could kill the potential resale value.

 

Probably best to send it off, especially if the investment is still going to be far less than the resale.

 

Can just imagine how nice those would look all restored.

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[mallymal1]

Wow! Fantastic find.

[jinzo1988]

Nice haul ! How much did they set you back?

I paid $100 total for the four pens. I had the story all pecked out on my tablet just now, hit a glitch causing a restart and lost my work. Will have to relate the story later.

[JotterAddict62]

Nice job on the rescue of the Parkers.

[purplepen]

Great find! I am so jealous !! Oh, sorry - envious !

[JotterAddict62]

Why do things like this never happen to me?

I would have been excited by one of those -- but *four*? Yeah, you ARE a sumgai.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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Ruth this is a photo of an upcoming auction in my area. I'll let you know what happens after I buy them all.http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f239/Jotteraddict62/parkerpenlot2_zps3ecc8063.jpg

You still have time to drive to WI. I'll buy breakfast. By the way there are a few other pen lots the auctioneer has for pens.

 

A Sheaffer lot and two misc. pen lots.

 

I do not know how they will sell the pens ? All for one money or by choice.

 

What do you say Ruth, do you want to play.

 

Ken

[jinzo1988]

Here is the story as promised - a bit hard to believe I know. In my area, antique stores often have a register or book you can sign and provide contact info and list the item(s) you are looking for. Even though calls never come, I usually do this if I have time. Last week I received a call from a lady who operates a booth in a large antique mall. She had my number as I had bought a nice double pen Esterbrook desk set from her about a year or so ago. She said she had a woman who was trying to sell items from her parent's estate and there were several fountain pens in the bunch. Pictures (pretty poor quality cellphone ones at that) followed and I made an offer. The offer was accepted by the estate owner (not the booth operator) and the pens were mailed to me.

 

I received them in the mail, checking at home over my lunch hour, and I quickly opened the box to see what was there. I had a full afternoon of meetings that I had to attend so did not have time to look closely. At day's end I did look closely and as Frank Barone liked to say on the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, "holy (bleep)!!!" - the two black pens (a husband and wife pair with their names engraved on the barrels) are 1st Year versions - with silver caps. The reason I wanted the pens basically without being able to examine them for condition issues was the lady insisted the one without the cap jewel was green, but had a jewel on the bottom. [Heck, even I knew that if she was right, it had to be Nassau Green.]

 

The Golden Pearl Vac was gravy as I have several already. I was not able to get a good measurement of its length, so said throw it in also. It is exactly 5 inches capped with a ///\\\ cap band, so I gather it is a Major (though Vac identification seems mysterious to me), but has a nice undamaged two tone nib.

 

So, I intend to continue leaving my name and number at shops when I can. Even if my next call comes a decade from now, I will feel blessed.

[Florida Blue]

 

The Golden Pearl Vac was gravy as I have several already. I was not able to get a good measurement of its length, so said throw it in also. It is exactly 5 inches capped with a ///\\\ cap band, so I gather it is a Major (though Vac identification seems mysterious to me), but has a nice undamaged two tone nib.

 

It does appear to be a Major. 3rd generation Vacs were singled jeweled and had plastic fillers. Parker made a 3rd generation Junior that was the same size as the Major. However, a Major had a Blue Diamond clip, sometimes a two-tone nib (later they were monotone) and the fancier chevron cap band. The Jr. had two thin cap bands, a monotone nib and no Blue Diamond guarantee.

 

I'm surprised Farmboy hasn't chimed in yet.