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I just received the following email from a customer about an homage pen to the Parker Sonata -- flighter version -- that he had purchased form me some time ago:

"Oh and I thought you might like to know this:
I went into a Parker store and got them to take a look at the silver Baoer you sold me quite a while ago. I didn't tell them where I bought it and got it appraised. They thought it was a modified Parker with different parts, valued at $200. Said it wrote beautifully, so it's not just me. So, good job http://cdn.boardhost.com/emoticons/happy.gif I'm still very happy with it and take it everywhere with me. The one I'm ordering is for my dad's birthday. Thanks,"
E. B., Melbourne, Australia

I'm not sure if this says more about the pen or the Parker employees! By the way, it's clearly engraved with 'Baoer' on the clip -- so I guess that's the 'modification'. ;)

 

http://www.hisnibs.com/BaoerSonataSteelFlighterPenCap_small.jpg

 

The nib is also a Baoer, so I guess that's the second modification.

 

Regards,

 

Norman Haase

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Now that's an investment! Your customer should have offered to sell on the spot and come back to you to buy ten more Baoers!

 

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I went into a Parker store...

E. B., Melbourne, Australia

I'm not sure if this says more about the pen or the Parker employees!

 

In this little colonial outpost in the antipodes we do not have Parker dedicated stores. :)

 

Parker/Cross/Lamy/Skript/Waterman/etc are massmarket sold in department stores like Myer or DavidJones; staffers manning the pen counter would be equally adept at selling you Lego or lingerie as much as they know Parker.

 

There's also some surviving pen specialists who do more highend writing tools, but they'll be multibrand not Parker exclusive. If it were one of these... well, they might just be "too polite" perhaps to a newcomer walkin to disparage. ;)

 

Downunder RRP A$200 buys you a genuine lacquer Sonnet; steel nib stainless is around A$120-150 I think. Cisele goes up to A$500.

 

Big fan of the Baoer 388 and always have some on the workbench... with minor refinishing they can be made to write very smoothly; I've been gifting them to potential FP target/converts however the nib is stiffer & nothing I can easily do to replicate the 18k goldie in my French Sonnet (which is kept inked up on workbench to compare against).

 

But I guess if one hasn't a standard to compare directly against... a 388 writes sweet

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