What Parkers Have Joined Your Collection Lately?

[Paul-in-SF]

I seem to be buying only Parkers lately. First I got a Centennial True Blue LE, then a Centennial Mandarin LE, both in beautiful condition; then I got a vintage Duofold Senior Streamline in Mandarin, not in such great condition (the yellow seems to be noticeably darkened); and finally today I pulled my thumb and went for a Centennial Silver Snake LE. That will certainly keep me going for a while. 

[christof]

...finally a NOS Parker Duofold international from 1988 with EF-nib:

 

 

 

These are very cool pens!

[donnweinberg]

Very good-looking pens are those modern Duofolds.

[christof]

Yes, they are definitely!

 

[Glenn-SC]

Just something so “classic” looking about those gold and black pens.  
Very nice!

[Beechwood]

1 hour ago, christof said:

Yes, they are definitely!

 

 

 

I am not sure why I don't like the modern Duofold more than I do, perhaps I just want more from a premium priced pen than a cartridge/converter, fully accept that they are a very good looking pen however. 

 

 

[donnweinberg]

22 hours ago, Beechwood said:

I am not sure why I don't like the modern Duofold more than I do, perhaps I just want more from a premium priced pen than a cartridge/converter, fully accept that they are a very good looking pen however. 

 

I agree with that also.  If the modern Duofold offered an internal piston-filling system, that would really excite me beyond its good looks.  Parker, however, has been fully committed to its C/C fillers for a long time now.

[Beechwood]

17 minutes ago, donnweinberg said:

 

I agree with that also.  If the modern Duofold offered an internal piston-filling system, that would really excite me beyond its good looks.  Parker, however, has been fully committed to its C/C fillers for a long time now.

 

 

Thanks, I thought it was just me and my pedantry.

 

Or even a button filler as a nod to its ancestry.

 

I say that but at the same time I appreciate the quality of the Parker cartridge, my very old Penman cartridge is just the best

[Glenn-SC]

23 minutes ago, donnweinberg said:

 

I agree with that also.  If the modern Duofold offered an internal piston-filling system, that would really excite me beyond its good looks.  Parker, however, has been fully committed to its C/C fillers for a long time now.

I have both piston (Pelikan, Lamy, Nahvalur) and C/C (just about everything else made in the last 50 years) fillers and I am just not that enamored with piston fillers in general. While piston fillers typically hold more ink, I have had more QC and use issues with them than C/Cs.  (I have never had a converter fail on a pen.)  So, I don’t see them as a “must have feature” of higher priced pens; as I do for, say, a gold over a SS nib.  

[christof]

  

23 hours ago, Beechwood said:

 

 

I am not sure why I don't like the modern Duofold more than I do, perhaps I just want more from a premium priced pen than a cartridge/converter, fully accept that they are a very good looking pen however. 

 

 

 

 

Please do not forget that the modern Parker Duofold is a child of the 80s. Cartridges were state of the art at that time. And there are still people today who prefer this system...

[thx1138]

I am rather fond of the Parker CC system. With few exceptions, a converter or cartridge will fit any Parker fountain pen from the 60s onwards. It may only hold half as much ink as a piston filler but the converters are usually trouble-free, and as I would typically have 15-20 pens inked at one time, drying out is more likely to be an issue rather than insufficient ink volume.

[Beechwood]

I agree with you but at USD700+ as a starting point in Duofold prices I would be more encouraged to buy a new 2025 Duofold if it had a more inventive filling system, however much I like a Parker cartridge.

[Sheptonian]

On 2/10/2025 at 4:08 AM, cat74 said:

very nice! almost reminds me of the Parker VS (the later euro versions were aerometric)

Wow! Really? It's amazing what you learn here. One of those would be much more practical than the original iteration of the VP.

[Sheptonian]

Something I really didn't expect to find when not even looking for Victories:

 

 

 

Both pen and pencil are dated 1952.

[inkstainedruth]

Cool find!  I don't know much about that model so I guess I'm now about to do a bunch of research....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA:  FPN is such a dangerous place.... 

[donnweinberg]

5 hours ago, Sheptonian said:

Something I really didn't expect to find when not even looking for Victories:

 

Great find, Sheptonian.

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

6 hours ago, Sheptonian said:

Something I really didn't expect to find when not even looking for Victories:

 

 

Both pen and pencil are dated 1952.

Very nice! Congrats

[shalitha33]

Recently got an English pen and pencil set (green) with slightly better condition than what I had. 
Pen and pencil have mismatching date codes though.

 

Both pen and pencil seems to be unused with chalk marks in both.

[Beechwood]

22 minutes ago, shalitha33 said:

Recently got an English pen and pencil set (green) with slightly better condition than what I had. 
Pen and pencil have mismatching date codes though.

 

Both pen and pencil seems to be unused with chalk marks in both.

 

 

A superb set.

 

I would struggle to decide what to do with a perfect and unused set, best of luck.

[donnweinberg]

2 hours ago, shalitha33 said:

Recently got an English pen and pencil set (green) with slightly better condition than what I had. 
Pen and pencil have mismatching date codes though.

 

Gorgeous set.  It’s always exciting to obtain a totally pristine, very vintage pen (and/or set) like this one.