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This 2nd Quarter 1935 Parker Burgundy Pearl lock-down filler Vacumatic finally got a new diaphragm installed today. It has only been waiting for 22 years in a dark corner of a storage cabinet...

 

 

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The base was $5.00 without the pen - in 1935:

 

 

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The base has the red laminate on the top - perhaps 3/8 of an inch and the balance is very clear material - probably glass?

 

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Always admired Burgundy Pearl among the early vacumatics...

 

 

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Absolutely gorgeous!

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What a base--I've never seen anything like that, although I suppose I did know that there are a lot of Vacumatic desk pens out there.

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Wow what a set! :)

 

Great you have been able to restore it. Never seen one of those bases before I bet it looks even better in real time than it does in the pictures. Thanks for sharing :thumbup:

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Looks beautiful! I would say the top laminate is celluloid like the pen. Very unusual!

 

It really does - there was not much to restore except to replace the original diaphragm which was about 85 years old... (da vinci)

 

Like you, for a long time I thought the top 1/4 inch or so was burgundy pearl celluloid - but I was wrong.

 

The top 1/4 inch piece,which has beveled edges, is also clear glass. Look closely at the photo taken from the side and you will see a very thin dark line going across about a quarter inch from the top. That dark line is a very thin (about 0.050 or 3/64ths) of the red laminate.

 

Because the top 1/4" clear glass top has beveled edges light is bent and makes the entire "slab" look like burgundy pear laminate - even when it is not.

 

Very clever design and remarkable workmanship.

 

 

As was said by Beechwood in the duplicate post:

 

"One of those very rare times when a functional object becomes art.

 

One of the best looking pens I have ever seen."

 

Me too...

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Silver Pearl version, unfortunately with some celluloid decay.

 

 

That is unfortunate - looks like something may have leaked from around the socket into the celluloid sheet below... or, possibly someone used a small blow torch to try to heat up the socket for some reason.

 

Is the top still reasonably smooth around the socket? ...can't tell from the photos if it is cracked or not.

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Silver Pearl version, unfortunately with some celluloid decay.

 

 

That is unfortunate - looks like something may have leaked from around the socket into the celluloid sheet below... or, possibly someone used a small blow torch to try to heat up the socket for some reason.

 

Is the top still reasonably smooth around the socket? ...can't tell from the photos if it is cracked or not.

 

The glass top is perfect. The damage is in the celluloid under the glass top.

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