HELP ME TO IDENTIFY

[PEN FREAK]

Good day to all,

I dont know if this question belongs here, but i need your help in identifying this Parker vacumatic. I love Parker vacumatics and i won this one on ebay last night.

I would like toi know what era it's from, senior, junior or what

 

Parker Vacumatic

 

Thanks You!!!

Edited February 18, 2005 by PEN FREAK

[KendallJ]

The seller should be able to quote you a date code. from the imprint. It will be a number with 0-3 small dots surrounding it.

 

Example a .7. would be 2Q 1947 I believe.

 

The blind cap has no jewel on it, so probably 1942-48 era.

 

I'm not expert on some of the finer details, but 2 other aspects useful for dating.

a. this is not a blue diamond vac (clip design)

b. the capband

c. it probably has a plastic plunger for the vacumatic filler.

 

Richard Binder has a few very nice refernce discussion on the vac:

 

Binder's Vac Profile

 

Design Features

 

Filler Anatomy

[Keith with a capital K]

I am by no means an expert on identifying Vacumatics...

 

It's hard to date the pen without seeing the dating code but at less than 5 inches it is a sub deb model or what most would consider a junior or ladies sized pen. Despite that, it isn't much shorter than a standard Vacumatic and most would find it to be comfortable in the hand.

 

I mentioned this yesterday and it bears repeating, a plunger that moves smoothly is not always an accurate indicator of whether the filler in the pen works.

 

I see that this seller has offered to guarantee this pen fro one week after purchase so perhaps, to save yourselves both some grief, you could ask if he/she could try to fill the pen with water and check the results.

 

Vac prices on the 'bay seem to be running pretty high and 60.00 would be considered a little much for what I would always consider to be, an unrestored pen.

 

Even "restored" doesn't mean that the work has been done properly and I re-restore a great number of pens here.

[PEN FREAK]

Thank You Guy's

I cancelled the sale with no issues. The pen was a deb. like keith said.

This is what happens when one is not educated enough.

 

Thanks Again!!!

[Maja]

For anyone else who may be interested, this is the best article on

 

DATING PARKER VACUMATICS and 51s

 

that I could find.

 

It is from Pen World magazine Vol.1 No. 2 from way back in 1987

Thank you Miss Inkly!