Who Am I, Asked This Parker Pen, At A Loss Of Its Identity.

[stringsandpedals]

Good evening fellow penners,

 

Quickly wanted to ask if someone knew from the top of their head which Parker Pen this one is. Not a Parker expert and a colleague asked me to have a look at it and maybe tell him a thing or two about it. It's a CC, and that's pretty much all I know thus far.

 

 

P.S. better pictures and pictures of the nib will follow as soon as I actually get my hands on it. Your knowledge would be much appreciated however.

 

 

[pajaro]

Vector, I think.

[joss]

I was about to say the same: Parker Vector

 

http://parkercollector.com/vector.html

[inkstainedruth]

Yup, I concur. Looks like a Vector to me, too.

My first "good" pen (after a couple of Parker Reflex pens where the rubber on the section disintegrated) was a cobalt blue Vector. It developed a crack in the barrel at the threads a few months ago, and I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to replace that with another barrel in the same color.

My Vectors are little workhorses. Yeah, they're school pens. But they work well -- the Blue one got left someplace for a month (and before I got it back sat in the bottom of my husband's car for a week in 20°F Massachusetts weather -- and the day after he got home with it, it started right up....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mike 59]

Hi, A Parker Vector, the clip shape would mean it was made after 1993.

Just below the point of the clip, on the cap, will be some text, stating the country of manufacture, usually either France, UK or USA, plus a couple of code letters which will give the year and quarter it was made, if interested.

Assuming it is a fountain pen, it will take Parker Quink ink cartridges or Parker cartridge converters, to use bottled ink.

It won't use the common 'International' cartridges.

Normally these are reliable, and need only flushing through with plain water every couple of months, as maintenance.

[stringsandpedals]

Thanks everyone for your quick help. I got the pen on friday, gave it a good bubble bath, and checked how it wrote. Here's a close-up of the nib.

 

Hi, A Parker Vector, the clip shape would mean it was made after 1993.

Just below the point of the clip, on the cap, will be some text, stating the country of manufacture, usually either France, UK or USA, plus a couple of code letters which will give the year and quarter it was made, if interested.

Assuming it is a fountain pen, it will take Parker Quink ink cartridges or Parker cartridge converters, to use bottled ink.

It won't use the common 'International' cartridges.

Normally these are reliable, and need only flushing through with plain water every couple of months, as maintenance.

 

Thank you for your useful tips. Upon further inspection I found out that your pen was made between april and june of the year 1988, in the UK. The nib is a very smooth F nib, but the pen is quite dry. For the rest it's seems solid. Oh the nib is also quite rigid and stiff, but that's just parker nibs in general from my experience.