I Discovered I Have Another Hemingway Fountain Pen, Well, A Good Look-Alike

[fpupulin]

I was looking at the nib units of my two Parker Duofold Centennial of the first generation, just to check that they are exactly the same, and the inner threads are equal on the two pens. And yes, they work, so I can have the nib I want on the pen I want to use. This is good, because my orange Centennial has a needlepoint EEF nib that I like much more than the M nib of my black Centennial, but I want to have also the latter in my rotation.

Well, checking the combinations of pens and nibs, I just noted the black cap of one Duofold close to the orange body with the black finial of the other… Hey, but that is really like the sister of my Hemingway!

Actually, both my pens are of the 1990-1991, so they precede the launch of the Hemingway by one year at least! I could not consider them a "copy" of the Hemingway, being born before ... And, if indeed a pen can proudly sport an orange body and make a bold and well-deserved reference to an American writer who achieved fame in the 1930s, this is Parker Duofold!

How did I not see it before ...

[Driften]

Very cool thanks for sharing the idea!

[WLSpec]

Interesting! I haven't seen this similarity either (though I doubt I will own a Hemingway so that I can see it)

[jchch1950]

The finials of the Parkers are not glued?

[whichwatch]

Here are a couple of others with some similarity, though not as close as the Duofold you showed.. Left to right are Montblanc Hemingway, Pelikan M800, Nakaya Nibs.com 25th Anniversary Edition, and two that perhaps don't count since they are marbled rather than solid and are a good bit brighter orange, but a Delta Dolce Vita and a Leonardo Momento Zero.

 

The Nakaya I showed is

 

 

 

 

 

also a bit of a cheat, since it actually has kanji down one side of the pen marking the anniversary it honors.

 

 

Edited May 5, 2020 by whichwatch

[penwash]

Here's my "special edition" Parker Duofold Jr.

 

[fpupulin]

Here's my "special edition" Parker Duofold Jr.

 

This is really older than the MB Hemingway! It must be as old as young Ernest Hemingway before his braveries on the Italian front...

[fpupulin]

Here are a couple of others with some similarity, though not as close as the Duofold you showed.. Left to right are Montblanc Hemingway, Pelikan M800, Nakaya Nibs.com 25th Anniversary Edition, and two that perhaps don't count since they are marbled rather than solid and are a good bit brighter orange, but a Delta Dolce Vita and a Leonardo Momento Zero.

 

 

 

They are all beautiful pens, some more hemingwayan, some other less...

[fpupulin]

The finials of the Parkers are not glued?

Sorry, I have'nt understood your question.

[jchch1950]

fpupulin: Did the finials of the Parker Century can be interchange without any problem from the black pen to the orange one or did they needed some heating or special tool?I'm lockdown in a different country where my pens are so I can't try to make the Parker Hemingway muy self but I love the one you made.

[como]

Hahaha, I much enjoyed seeing the creativity here. Fpupulin and penwash, I like your old and new Parker rendition of the Heminyway. Thank you to everyone for the fun ideas.

 

Here's my "special edition" Parker Duofold Jr.

 

I was looking at the nib units of my two Parker Duofold Centennial of the first generation, just to check that they are exactly the same, and the inner threads are equal on the two pens. And yes, they work, so I can have the nib I want on the pen I want to use. This is good, because my orange Centennial has a needlepoint EEF nib that I like much more than the M nib of my black Centennial, but I want to have also the latter in my rotation.

 

Well, checking the combinations of pens and nibs, I just noted the black cap of one Duofold close to the orange body with the black finial of the other Hey, but that is really like the sister of my Hemingway!

 

 

 

 

Actually, both my pens are of the 1990-1991, so they precede the launch of the Hemingway by one year at least! I could not consider them a "copy" of the Hemingway, being born before ... And, if indeed a pen can proudly sport an orange body and make a bold and well-deserved reference to an American writer who achieved fame in the 1930s, this is Parker Duofold!

 

How did I not see it before ...

Edited May 9, 2020 by como

[fpupulin]

fpupulin: Did the finials of the Parker Century can be interchange without any problem from the black pen to the orange one or did they needed some heating or special tool?I'm lockdown in a different country where my pens are so I can't try to make the Parker Hemingway muy self but I love the one you made.

Dear jchch1950, if for finials you mean the unit formed by screw-on section+feeder+nib, then the answer is yes, they can be interchanged just screwing them off/screwing them on!

 

Note, however, that my two Duofold Centennials are of the same age, first type, flat top, not streamlined. I am not sure if the nib units are interchangeable between version I and version II of the Centennial, and unfortunately I do not own a version II (streamlined) Duofold Centennial to check it for you.

[jchch1950]

fpupulin :Thanks you for your answers.