Parker Wooden Box?

[Bo Bo Olson]

The dark one looks like walnut, or is stained walnut.

Your lighter one is lighter than mine.

What mine is I don't know. I have a small hinged wooden box with 18 strip types of untreated woods, and none match my color...or your lighter one.

No big deal either way, I'm sure we are glad to have them.

[thx1138]

Yours looks fairly similar to my light one.

 

I'm guessing cedar for mine as the grain, on both the face and in cross section, looks like the western red cedar on my skirting and architraves. 

 

The western red cedar can vary from really blonde timber to very dark brown but the grain is similar, maybe a bit tighter on the dark wood.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thanks, I'd never thought of western ceder or any ceder.

My first pen boxes, humidors, burl veneer and ceder lining.

The big one is walnut.

[thx1138]

Very nice, the second one looks like cedar to me.

[spacecoastpenny]

Way Cool Boxes. thanks for sharing 

[Bo Bo Olson]

That is a classy space shuttle pen holder.

 

I've come to like Parker Penman Ruby..a burgundy.

Not real quick, but slowly and surely.

I have it in my 725 Geha, a dry semi-flex...where is shades on occasion.

I think I'll keep it in that pen for a while.

[inkstainedruth]

3 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

That is a classy space shuttle pen holder.

Plus 1 to that sentiment!  Although I fear it's for a BP....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

There are skinny fountain pens.

Do try some.

I have a thin medium-long Geha 725 in a pen holder that woks fine for BP's. In fact before I moved it to my desk for skinny FP's, I had it laying on a library shelf as a display for my Pelikan 450; part of a NOS set.

I had two or three narrow pens, like a Pelikan 381 or Celebry in it....in my regular fountain pen holder was a bit wide for some of the pens so they touched bottom and bleed out.

The standard and Large pen holders of my Pelikan pen stand.

The alarm clock with the two bells is to remind me of 1880, when they were popular.

[Shaughn]

Not the rarest wooden box perhaps, but genuine Parker for Duofold pens (afaik). I have it for about 20 years or more. The Penman Ink (Sapphire) I found later.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A very, very nice box...from back in the day when that box would have held a full large fountain pen collection.

Back then in, or before 2000...most folks didn't have as many pens as that box had space for.

 

It was the tail end of One Man, One Pen era....or my opinion. I was still a one pen P-75. Sterling Silver Cisele owner, still lost in the 40 years I spent in the ball point desert.

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Very nice wooden box...very nice.

[Mercian]

On 10/19/2024 at 2:19 PM, Shaughn said:

Not the rarest wooden box perhaps, but genuine Parker for Duofold pens (afaik). I have it for about 20 years or more. The Penman Ink (Sapphire) I found later.

 

But your Parker 25 with orange trim is rare.
Very rare. They were only made for one year.

Very nice find

[Sheptonian]

Much more utilitarian then all the beautiful boxes above but a Parker wooden box nevertheless..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bo Bo Olson]

 

That last pen, a fish bone is very beautiful.

I have something similar to your back box...I'd like to see a picture of it.

A pencil box.

[baz666]

Interesting thread.

I have had these Parker boxes for a while now, I thought I would share them here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

cubed!!!

Great burl vernier boxes.

Those boxes are pretty enough to leave out on the desk.

[Heinkle]

Can you imagine Parker offering anything remotely resembling these boxes today? I don’t think the product design department understand the meaning of the word “luxury”. 

[Iacov]

On 13.11.2017 at 01:00, madwithwords said:

Привет, это мой первый пост, и я решил поделиться им с форумом.

 

 

I was lucky to find one of these! It's a little beat up and I had to adjust the hinges a little, but for about $25 plus shipping I can't complain)))

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

It's nice to be reminded about what is out in plain sight. Such as that Parker inkwell set.

Having cleaned my Geha 725, ... will now put it in the Parker P-75 Thuya OB in the Parker box. The ball point is the same color as the FP, just the normal poor picture. .... And the silver P-75, is now in that parker inkwell case.

 

Now that I finally got my own Handie, I can take pictures without bugging my wife.

Back when I was a 20 pen noobie, I did something I couldn't do today with over 120 pens, a balance test.

I was shocked that my standard sized Silver P-75 finished third in that test. For metal, a light pen. Not as light as a standard sized aluminum pen, of course, but so well-balanced.  Will eventually do a balance test between the Ciselé and the Thuya. There should be a difference. 

If I can dither for years between a 400 vs a 400nn, I can dither here too. 

Not a Parker but a wooden inkwell set.

WOG sycamore. 

Off the top of my head could be English....1920-30s. Because of the henges, it could be homemade, by someone who found the wells.

[thx1138]

That's a great inkwell set. The lids do look to be a later addition or possibly replacements.

 

I don't think too many people outside Europe will know what a Handy is.

[Bo Bo Olson]

4 hours ago, thx1138 said:

what a Handy is.

Lots shorter than cell phone, or what ever the contraption is called elsewhere. 

I managed to avoid them like the plague, but was given one. Now to learn how to use it.

 

Technology has gone nothing but down hill, since one went to the wall picked up the horn out of the credal,, cranked the telephone and said,"Hello Mable, Give me Alice."....after that they came in with do it your self.

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Telephone operators was the start of women's lib. Before that, a woman had to be married or live at home with a daily salary of 50 cents a 12-hour day. A male sales clerk made $2.00. A fifty cent a day, Seamstresses were expected to take work home with them. 

A flop cost 25 cents a night. That left a 10 cent breakfast, and 15 cents to splurge on for supper.  One didn't eat on Sunday. So eventually the young ladies decided to eat, if not living at home. Suicide was called pneumonia. Leaving the farm for better work in the Town/City was the first step to hell. 

There was no nice-nice, which didn't exist in Victorian ages.

 

Telephone operation was high-tech. Men were late to work, surly and rude, and worst of all in telephone was 98.5 business only, sell business info overheard for drink or money after work in a saloon.

 

Women were cheerful (of course, being paid a living wage, sharing a house or living in a good fifty cent boarding house not a flop, and one could eat three times a day!!!), punctual and most important of all, wouldn't be caught dead in a Saloon.

I hadn't expected my western saga to turn into a social commentary....nor had I expected America to return to that ice-cold hating age.