Hello all,

Please try to help me identify this pen.

It as a Vacumatic golden cap, with plain "diamond".

The pens looks like a 60's 51, from the converter shape - it sayz Parker 51 on the converter

But:

the nib and feed look strange (unusully broad and the feed is flat and not rounded);

the hole is not located on top of the body barrel, but on the center of it.


there is too damage on the grip, but that is irrelevant for ID purposes.

Please help.

thanks

rusty

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/rustynib/P9050010.jpg

I'm not so good at identifying pens, so all I can say is that it looks like a Mark I Teal Blue Aerometric Parker"51". I don't know enough to comment on the nib differences

I'll leave the more specific identification to the "51"-a-holics who lurk here

Hi rustynib,

I'm not one of what 'Kissing' likes to refer to as 51-aholics but I think that you might well have a mismatch, the cap looks like a pre-Aerometric item from the late 1940's whereas the pen looks to date from the early to mid 50's although there might have been a period when the early type cap more usually seen on Vacumatic filling 51's was used on Aerometric pens on the US side of the water.

If I am wrong one of the true afficianados will correct me and provide you with accurate information and I'll learn something else about 51's that I didn't know, which is still an awful lot more than I do know.
Cheers, John