Up for sale is a blue Parker 45 with a nice metal cap. I bought this new old stock and am the only user. The pen has been used – I would guess I’ve written a good 30 or so pages with it. I also adjusted the nib, which is marked as an extra-fine, to write as a fine with a very nice ink flow. The pen has surface wear, and a small nick in the section near that nib – it’s small, and not noticeable and I’ve tried to capture this in the last picture. This is a great pen that would make an wonderful everyday user. I’m selling it because I’ve got another 45 that gets more use. I will include a new parker converter and am asking $30 shipped CONUS, but will take offers if that seems too high. Thanks for looking!

Well, how about $24?

How about $20?

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purpledog

I am quite confused about the cap end. Is something missing at the end of the cap?

purpledog

This pen did not have a jewel when I purchased it. I have another Parker 45 that is also jeweless, like the one I'm selling. I'm not 100% on this, but I was under the impression that these particular 45s never had jewels. I've also looked at Richard Binder's info on the 45 and it appears from the pictures on his article "Profile: The Parker 45" that some had jewels and some did not - the Special GT (the last pen pictured in that article), for example, does have a jewel. The others do not - at least as far as I can tell - (see www.richardspens.com and do a search for "parker 45" to access the pictures and info). Anyway, if anyone else knows 100% either way, your input would be much appreciated.

Pen is sold. Thanks!

The jewel is only on top of new 45's. See here http://www.stylophilesonline.com/archive/jan03/0645.htm. Lookun at the clip this 45 seems to be the vintage one, so everthing seems to be OK.

Thanks for posting the link to the article.

The first, original, and best IMO cap for the 45 has an inversion/divot/declevity, either gold or silver trim models. The P 45 was designed by the same person who designed the P 61 and the P 75, I forget his name.

In the mid-60s, they went to a flattened declevity with no jewel. The recent models have the jewel but I don't know when they phased that into the line - sometime after 2000 I think?

The early ones I feel are the best because the top "inversion" is the original design vision and seems to fit the lines of the pen...

Thanks for the input. Mr Richard Binder has also explained this in another thread.

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=54262

So if I understand what I have read, the 45 started out in 1960 with a conical indentation at the cap end for a few a few years, and then moved on to the 'stepped' indentation at shown in the above photo for another few years. In the mid 60s, the cap end was flattened (with no jewel). The modern ones have a jewel on the cap end.

If so, then the above pen would be probably from slightly before the mid 60s.

thanks,
wui