Parker year of manufacture letters

[max the head]

Can anyone tell me where I can find out what year Parker pens were manufactured by the letter code.I have a 45 flighter with LE and a Harlequin with UL.I've tried finding a web site with no success.

Thankyou.

[Richard]

You started another topic with just the 45 Flighter, and I answered there. Here's what I wrote:

 

A pen dated LE was made in the first quarter of 1983. There is an exposition of this code on my Web site, on this page:

 

Birthday Pens: A Timeline

 

I will leave it to you to figure out when your Harlequin was made.

[Betty]

I looked at my Parker 45, an Aero Parker 51 and a Vac Parker 51, but couldn't find any coding of any sort or even a hint of a special coding. Where am I supposed to look to find the coding?

 

I'm really curious to find out when my pens were made.

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

It depends on where they when they were made.

 

On the 51s though, it is under the clutch ring. It should have some dots and number(s).

 

http://www.parker51.com

 

Dillon

[Richard]

Parker did not date pens between about 1954 and 1980. This means that any "51" with a date code has the dot code that I show first on my timeline page. Beginning in 1980, as the timeline page says, Parker began dating pens again, and the date code is exactly where I say it is, at the cap lip. If it isn't there, the pen was made before 1980.

[saintsimon]

... Beginning in 1980, as the timeline page says, Parker began dating pens again, and the date code is exactly where I say it is, at the cap lip. If it isn't there, the pen was made before 1980.

Hmm, I have a Parker Premier 'Athenes' (made in France) with a seemingly P75 section , which has no date code on the cap lip (unlike my two French P75s). The pen was purchased from a German pen shop as NOS in the mid '90s. The Premier line was introduced in 1983. :blink:

 

http://www.parker75.addr.com/Reference/75_...hes/Premier.htm

Edited January 30, 2006 by saintsimon

[Richard]

I haven't said that Parker dated all pens beginning in 1980. What I do say, and what I do know, is that Parker began dating pens in 1980 after a hiatus of about 26 years. At least the 75 began receiving dates at that time, and apparently the 45 was being dated at least by 1983. As happened with the older dot/digit date code, adoption and discontinuation on different models or in different mnanufacturing plants, or both, are quite likely to have been staggered over some number of years.

[max the head]

Thanks very much Richard.I can carry a copy of that around with me now,until I know it off by heart that is.

Cheers once again.