Pocket-Style Bp With Jotter Barrel And P61 Jewel?

[parkergeo]

I don't have the cap, so some of the clues are missing, but this pen from a recently purchased lot of Parker-Eversharp items is interesting. It has the general profile of a late model Eversharp Pockette, but it with a metal barrel (no markings) and a Parker jewel. The T-Ball refill appears original and might place it in the 1959-1961 timeframe.

 

Knowing that Pockette barrels are interchangeable with Eversharp Point *7 click ballpoints, I tried this barrel in a Jotter from the same time period and it fits perfectly. So, the pen has a Jotter front end and a P61-like back end.

 

Anybody familiar with this model? Would the original cap have been clipless? Is this a Parker pocket or purse pen, or some other type of specialty pen, such as a nurse pen on a neck lanyard? Pen is shown with a late Parker-Eversharp Pockette in the second photo.

 

[parkergeo]

[Just a bump to put the picture in front of more eyes to see if anyone familiar with Parker mid-century catalogs and trivia might know anything about this short jeweled ballpoint.]

[richardandtracy]

Never seen the like in my life before.

Makes you wonder if someone wasn't trying 'Mix & Match Hacks' in the 1960's.

 

Richard

[1nkulus]

If it fits together, writes and is comfortable; it's a usable pen. Frankenstein creations can be interesting.

[doggle2]

I have to say--that ballpoint is very attractive.

[parkergeo]

Thanks for the input, Richard. If it's new to you I don't feel so bad about coming up empty in my background searches! I'll take a loupe to it to look at the tooling marks and use calipers to compare barrel dimensions to see if it could be a one-off made with the end of a full-size jeweled barrel.

[richardandtracy]

Parkergeo,

It is nice that you offer such faith in my opinion, but I really am not an authority on Parker's by any stretch of the imagination, so please do not regard me as such. I have used and been interested in Parker Pens all my life (well, since age 6 or 7 and now in my mid 50's), but there are many, many people with considerably more knowledge than I have. Also, I am not really interested in BP's.

However, if it was common or fairly common (ie a production pen) in the UK, I'd have expected to have noticed the type of pen at some point either new or second hand, and I have not.

 

Regards,

 

Richard