Help Me Id This Parker Vac

[jinzo1988]

I picked this up last week and have questions how to classify/list it in my inventory. Below are a few observations I have been trying to resolve without much luck:

 

Pen is only a hair over 4.5 inches capped (actually 4 9/16 inches) and 5 3/8 inches posted. It has what I regard as an "older" style cap (feathered clip rather than split arrow, striped cap jewel, three narrow cap rings). Pen body has a 3rd Qtr 1944 (4 w/ one dot) date stamp (not the older two digit dating). Nib is set too deep in section to see a date on it, but it has 7 feathers on each side of arrow if that matters.

 

[Not relevant to identification, but pen has good clarity, perfect nib w/ good tipping and it fills completely with no leaks.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have not been able to find reference to a Parker Vacumatic this short in length. Thanks!

[Beechwood]

I have something similar and thought that it was a mismatch of cap and copy. However there is a well documented thread on another fountain pen forum which records these early cap and late body marriages as late as 1947.

[ThomasB]

That looks to me like the body of a third generation deb and the cap of a first generation in my limited knowledge, the only models after the first gen that had three bands were the Senior and the Streamline

[penmanila]

i've had about four or five of these "anomalous" three-banded, single-jeweled vacs in my collection, one of them this short. so they do exist.

 

That looks to me like the body of a third generation deb and the cap of a first generation in my limited knowledge, the only models after the first gen that had three bands were the Senior and the Streamline

[Brian-McQueen]

There are a couple of problems here with this pen. The first is that the cap shape seems to be wrong. If this were one of the late 3-band single jeweled vacs, the cap should still be a streamlined shape. This cap looks like the standard lockdown era shape. Secondly, we would expect this pen to have a "split arrow" clip (one that has the word PARKER between the feathers, but no blue diamond). Third, I believe these are only known with 46-47 date codes. You can find a lengthy discussion about the anomalous 3-band single jewel pens here at the FPB but I believe this one to be a mismatch of parts.