Help Identifying Pen With Arrow Clip

[hbdk]

I have this very small lever filler with an arrow clip - looks a bit like a Parker clip, but I am rather certain it is not. Any help would be welcome.
 

 
The nib says: DURID 2
 

 

 
As stated, rather small...
 

[Dronak]

I'm certainly no expert, but I wasn't aware of arrow-like clips that weren't Parker. In any case, I did a Google search on your first image and looked at visually similar results. One looked like it had a similar clip (see http://mainstreetpens.com/wordpress/?cat=3, the "Reverse engineering #2" post), and the blog says that pen is a Parker. Hopefully others will more knowledge will weigh in, but maybe this is of some help.

[hbdk]

Thanks. I just find that the arrow point looks wrong - but then again, it might be me that is wrong

...or the nib may be the cause of my confusion. As I am planning on selling the pen (too small for my hands) I just want to make sure what it is.

[the_gasman]

I remember seeing an arrow clip on a vintage pen and thinking, wrongly, that it must have been a Parker.

The old firm, Stephens (of Liverpool, I think, and former makers of ink) comes to mind but it may well be a false memory.

 

Cheers,

David.

[TeaHive]

Parker, being renowned as it is, has had several other companies mimic their designs. That said, Parker didn't have any lever-fill pens other than the Parco and Parkette, if I'm not mistaken. And I've never seen any Parker made in that material.

 

This looks like a very handsome third-tier um... homage, let's say. Happy selling!

[Ernst Bitterman]

Usually non-Parker pens with a clip like that are from outside the US. It does look rather like an attempt to appeal to both Sheaffer and Parker buyers in one much-less-expensive package. As long at the point hasn't been eaten by ink, there's nothing WRONG with the writing of many lesser-name pens, even utterly anonymous ones like this, but unless someone particularly likes the look of it I don't know how easily you'll find a buyer if it's not part of a lot with a couple of known-name pens.

[Wahl]

Some OMAS pens had arrow clips.