How Rare Is This Parker

[athar201]

Hello

 

Kindly let me know how rare is this parker sonnet it is plain gold plated and the year of production too

 

Reg

 

Ali

[richardandtracy]

If it's a genuine Parker, there should be date codes on it, which would help a lot in dating the pen. Look for something like IIY near the 'Parker' engraving. The letter should be one letter from the sequence 'QUALITYPEN' and there should be up to 3 dot's or I's before or after the letter. The number of dots/I's starts at 3 for first quarter, 2, second quarter etc. To find the exact meaning of the code look here: http://www.parkercollector.com/codekey.html

 

If the date code is missing, inspect the pen a in more detail to determine if it was accidentally omitted by Parker or whether it's not a real Sonnet. The Sonnet model isn't old enough to have been missed from date codes (which re-started in 1979(US)/1980(Europe)).

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[Matlock]

If it's a genuine Parker, there should be date codes on it, which would help a lot in dating the pen. Look for something like IIY near the 'Parker' engraving. The letter should be one letter from the sequence 'QUALITYPEN' and there should be up to 3 dot's or I's before or after the letter. The number of dots/I's starts at 3 for first quarter, 2, second quarter etc. To find the exact meaning of the code look here: http://www.parkercollector.com/codekey.html

 

If the date code is missing, inspect the pen a in more detail to determine if it was accidentally omitted by Parker or whether it's not a real Sonnet. The Sonnet model isn't old enough to have been missed from date codes (which re-started in 1979(US)/1980(Europe)).

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

 

Be aware that some Sonnets (The Accession and the Gift Editions for instance) did not have date codes. And before anyone queries this, I bought my Gift Edition direct from Parker/WES so I think it is probably not a fake.

[athar201]

it has a date code

 

P.III

 

this is on the pen behind the parker below sonnet

[Matlock]

it has a date code

 

P.III

 

this is on the pen behind the parker below sonnet

First quarter 2007. However I have the Parker 2007 catalogue in front of me and that finish is not shown.

Edited September 25, 2014 by Matlock

[athar201]

IS THIS FINISH A PROTO TYPE

[terim]

I've got one like it too, also with a P III date code. Mine came out of India ...

 

TERI