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OldGriz
I acquired a pencil in a lot of my eBay pens... a very nice pencil....
What is interesting is that this is a pencil that Richard Binder can not identify .... YES it shocked me also..
I did get an idea of what it might be from another Parker specialist...

Here is the deal along with a picture
The pen is a very nice salmon pink liquid lead and it still writes, albeit lightly.
It only measures 4.5" long and the clip is the same as that on a first generation 21.
At first I thought it was a Parker 21, but no 21 was ever made in that color...
Richard said the color made him think 41, but the clip is all wrong for any 41 he has ever seen....
So now I am throwing it out to all of you to come up with an identification.... it is obviously an oddball...

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andyk
Not my area of expertise, but this site suggests that the parts were interchangeable and this colour may exist for the 21, so could this be a hybrid, 41 body/21 cap?

http://www.parkerpens.net/parker/parker21.shtml

http://www.parkerpens.net/parker/parker41.shtml

Not really aware if they are the same size as I don't recall ever seeing a 41, but it may explain this pencil.

Andy
Fred Kozub
I agree- with the "hybrid" status--The LL barrel is a P 41-salmon color and the cap is a P 21. P21 caps---all varieties ( I just test fit them) will fit the P 41 LL pencil.
OldGriz
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I agree- with the "hybrid" status--The LL barrel is a P 41-salmon color and the cap is a P 21. P21 caps---all varieties ( I just test fit them) will fit the P 41 LL pencil.


There is only one little problem with the hybrid theory...
I have a 21 pencil here and the cap it larger in diameter then the cap on this pencil and also a lot longer...
Remember this pencil is only 4.5" long... almost 3/4" shorter than a 21 pencil....
The cap on it is proportional to the length of the pencil....
FrankB
Tom, I have found Fred Krinke at The Fountain Pen Shop to be pretty knowledgeable about vintage MP's. You might try shooting him an e-mail with a photo.

By the way, that is a nice looking pencil.
SquelchB
Completely stupid and ignorant guess - VS?
99mikey99
This won't answer your question but I have the very same pencil. My mother acquired it when she worked for Parker Pen Canada in Don Mills (Toronto) in the early sixties. She had my name engraved on it. She doesn't, unfortunately, know it's identification.
Fred Kozub
OldGriz and others------I think I may have found an answer to the Q, I retract my "hybrid" comment and note the following----- In looking through my collection of early Parker BP's and LL's I found the following------an early P 21, salmon plastic, NO METAL TIP BP with inverted "^" and ball clip. Sitting next to it is a Parker LL ~4.5" long, "^" and ball clip in salmon plastic (like yours) as part of a "Pardners" set I believe. Also a P 21, same kind of clip with a matching turquoise BP and LL pencil--same size-~4.5". The BP's are ~5" long. I'm given to understand that the no metal tip BP's were "in between" productions ---between the grooved nylon barrel and the P 21 "T-ball Jotter" with metal tip. Some of these in between BP's had the grooved V clip, no metal tip and push caps, others had the no metal tip, grooved V clip and a push button top. The Parker BP's (Salmon and the Turquoise) have push button tops.
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