Parker ID help?

[Psyktek]

Received a Parker Duofold won on eBay. Looks like the photo in "Antique Writing Instruments" of an English-made pen, except that it has a blue diamond on the clip.

 

The nib is especially nice (to me, the novice) in that there is an arrow engraved into it that includes the tip as the arrow's point. It is also imprinted "Parker U.S.A." with a '6' below that imprint.

 

Details, details, details............ :bonk:

[Maja]

Just to clarify....

The ones I saw in my "Antique Writing Instruments" book were made in the 1930's but they look like these UK-made Duofolds on this page from the 1950's, right? (solid coloured caps and barrels and the feathered "arrow" clip without the word "Parker" on them).

 

Now, you say yours has the same clip but with a blue diamond on it?

(and it's not like this Parker 51 clip?)

 

I am puzzled too...

[Psyktek]

Yet more confusion...

 

Mine has the clip that you show on your second link, but the pen is black resin(?) and has air holes in the cap. The feed section has an indented grip as in the first picture on your first link and the engraved cap band. Actually, that first picture is nearly identical to mine, except for the nib and mine has the vacumatic filler assembly.

 

As soon as I figure out my newfangled digital camera I will try to post some pics.

 

Addendum: Just noticed an imprint on the barrel which says: "Geo. S. Parker Vacuumatic Made in U.S.A." So I guess this is not a British pen. It also has the translucent barrel of the older(?) Parkers.

Edited May 5, 2005 by Psyktek

[John]

I could be dead wrong but it sounds like you have Vacumatic. Vacumatic filler, arrow nib, BD clip all sound like a Vac. Any reson you think it isn't?

[Psyktek]

Not any longer. Just a newbie jumping to the conclusion that one photograph in a book defines a pen.

 

OK, folks, move along now, nothing more to see here.