Dark Chocolate Brown 51?

[pajaro]

I hesitate to call every off-color pen a prototype, noting that most Parker prototypes are so marked.

 

Have you ever put a lucite part in bleach? Was quite common for a while to do with faded pens followed up with dying them.

 

I had never heard about the bleach. Would the dye hold in the pen? It just seems that it would wash off.

 

Learning more about 51s all the time.

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting thread. I'm wondering whether it in fact is a Plum that got discolored somehow. Because it definitely doesn't look "brown" on my screen.... And it doesn't look like Burgundy either....

The date code would be right for it being Plum. But now you've got me really curious.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Aysedasi]

Not a cordovan.

 

The pen side by side with a cordovan vac.

 

 

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It may be the lighting in the photo, but my Cordovan Vac is quite a bit darker in colour.

[pajaro]

The barrel imrpint is faint. Nib says 'made in USA 1948'. Filler shroud is aluminium with press 6 times inscription (made in USA, again) .

 

Imprint: "8" and any dots?

[mitto]

Imprint: "8" and any dots?

 

Barrel imprint is not readable. Kind of worn away. Very very faint.

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[mitto]

Interesting thread. I'm wondering whether it in fact is a Plum that got discolored somehow. Because it definitely doesn't look "brown" on my screen.... And it doesn't look like Burgundy either....

The date code would be right for it being Plum. But now you've got me really curious.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Is Plum discolouration and turning into brown ducumented somwhere? Might it be a very dark plum?

[mitto]

I hesitate to call every off-color pen a prototype, noting that most Parker prototypes are so marked.

 

Have you ever put a lucite part in bleach? Was quite common for a while to do with faded pens followed up with dying them.

 

No. I havent ever used bleech on any of my pens. And I have polished the pen more than once. The dying, if done by the previous owner, would have gone witth the aggressive polishing that I subjected the pen to.

Edited October 10, 2018 by mitto

[mitto]

It may be the lighting in the photo, but my Cordovan Vac is quite a bit darker in colour.

 

 

Ok, so here it is side by side with a cordovan vac in normal light.

 

 

 

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[mitto]

Fom left to right.

 

Cordovan, plum, pen in question and black.

 

 

 

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[mitto]

Interesting that the difference in color with black is noticeable only in bright light.

 

 

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[pajaro]

Ones of those production variations. I wonder what it was intended to be.

 

I wonder if you will find more of these. Could a batch of color variant 51s have been sent your way?

[mitto]

Ones of those production variations. I wonder what it was intended to be.

 

I wonder if you will find more of these. Could a batch of color variant 51s have been sent your way?

Well, perhaps Pen venders/sellers know I am the right person to be made repository for such fallacies errr rarities.