What Parkers Have Joined Your Collection Lately?

[jchch1950]

4 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Six bucks apiece for those?  I'd say you definitely are "Sumgai of the Week".  Nice score!  I don't know a lot about Duofolds, but hoping that your 61 is one of the capillary fill ones (those are really super cool) -- and ALSO that it hasn't developed any cracks.

Ruth  Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

+ 1 😃

[FarmBoy]

A suitable blind cap should not be a problem to locate. 
 

[InkyProf]

Just now, FarmBoy said:

A suitable blind cap should not be a problem to locate. 
 

Already en route.

[baz666]

On 11/9/2025 at 1:33 PM, Sheptonian said:

Vacumatics are not my strongest suit so I am struggling to pigeon-hole the pen. Debutante or Sub-Deb, I think (but I'm not sure which, and it is from Canada..). It is about 118mm (~4 ¹¹/₁₆ ") long. The clip is a replacement.

 

 

Sheptonian,
This set is known as the "Streamline Slender" and is a second generation Vacumatic.
I can't help much regarding whether the emblems were factory fitted or not.

 

[GlenV]

Just came in the mail such a chunky pen and nib!

(senior Duofold streamline around 1930 interesting that does not have a arrow nib but the largest size Duofold like a senior flattop, but a comb feed I think

is all original)

[Beechwood]

6 hours ago, baz666 said:

 

Sheptonian,
This set is known as the "Streamline Slender" and is a second generation Vacumatic.
I can't help much regarding whether the emblems were factory fitted or not.

 

 

 

The emblems look like cap badges to me that have been shaped and then applied to the pen by the proud owner

[Ted Nashe]

 

A Parker "17" Super Duofold that I obtained from the Bay of Thieves at a bargain price, boxed and in minty condition🙃. I've inked it with Quink Permanent Black. 🖋️

[samba]

15 hours ago, Ted Nashe said:

 

A Parker "17" Super Duofold that I obtained from the Bay of Thieves at a bargain price, boxed and in minty condition🙃. I've inked it with Quink Permanent Black. 🖋️

Beautiful!

[Sheptonian]

On 11/11/2025 at 10:41 AM, baz666 said:

 

Sheptonian,
This set is known as the "Streamline Slender" and is a second generation Vacumatic.
I can't help much regarding whether the emblems were factory fitted or not.

 

 

On 11/11/2025 at 5:09 PM, Beechwood said:

 

 

The emblems look like cap badges to me that have been shaped and then applied to the pen by the proud owner

 

Thank you, Both.

 

It is great to learn the correct model, what with the Vacumatics being so many and varied (clearly I need to see many more of them). As for the emblems, I think that you may well be correct, @Beechwood. Whoever did the work certainly made an excellent job of it.

 

The Slender was sold as a lady's pen (looked it up after @baz666's steer) so perhaps the attention to detail was a labour of love on the part of a serving officer. We will never know but it's a pleasant thought, nevertheless.   

 

[GlenV]

I seem to be on a Parker track lately, just not able to pass up this little blue vac, 1940 speed line filler, this little one fills very nicely after restoration. It was surprisingly low priced so “had” to get it. 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Nice pen!  The Azure Blue Pearl is probably my favorite color of the entire Vac line.  Although somehow I've ended up with THREE of the Emerald Pearls in different sizes (including the one I just had restored a couple of weekends ago at the Ohio Pen Show).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[cat74]

2 seniors and a standard UK Duofold arrived today

[christof]

A beautiful Parker Duofold Centennial Marbled Green from 1990:

 

 

with a very nice writing fine nib:

 

[inkstainedruth]

Last weekend when I was at (of all things) a sewing and fiber themed event, I had *two* people come up to me in the space of a minuter or two (one of whom I didn't even know) to tell me that someone on the lower level back porch of the site, someone had fountain pens for sale!  And one of the ones I got was (I think) a vintage Duofold button filler in Lapis Lazuli.   Couldn't find a date code on it, but the imprint has the "Lucky Curve" banner under the word "DUOFOLD" and between the "JANESVILLE WI" wording and what looks like a US patent number.

No pix yet (life has been a little crazy and will continue to be so until sometime next week), but the cap has two bands on it).  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InkyProf]

28 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

And one of the ones I got was (I think) a vintage Duofold button filler in Lapis Lazuli.

 

Nice score! I love that color.

[inkstainedruth]

Yeah, me too.  I saw one at someone's table at OPS last month, but couldn't afford it.  This one?  I was sort of guessing on the price of it and the grey Sheaffer Snorkel the person had (there was also some little Conklin pen and I forget what the fourth one was, plus some dip pens; and there was some sort of dip pen only ink and a couple of boxes of what turned out to be small glass inkwells but which didn't seem to have caps on them -- maybe for desk pens?).  And my husband chipped in some on the money I spent on the two pens as well (the person is getting divorced from her husband and we thought she was selling stuff because she's short on money at the moment -- not sure how old her son is, but he's now towering over me and I remember him when he was maybe ten or twelve...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[TheRedBeard]

On 11/28/2025 at 2:13 PM, christof said:

A beautiful Parker Duofold Centennial Marbled Green from 1990:

 

 

with a very nice writing fine nib:

 

Oh, so nice  and especially with the F nib... It is my dream...

 

[cat74]

I've had this Challenger for a little while but it's now "officially" joined as I've taken it all apart and given it a good clean and importantly a new sac!

[christof]

On 11/29/2025 at 4:58 PM, TheRedBeard said:

Oh, so nice  and especially with the F nib... It is my dream...

 

 Since I got it, it‘s in my pocket every day.

I have no Idea why the fine nibs are that much harder to find than medium ones… they are excellent!

[wmc]

Two Parkers from the boneyard. The left is a black Parker 21 in a marble desk base that has been sitting on my desk for 25 years untouched. 

The right one  is a Parker 51 in dark green that appears to have never been used. It had no ink in it and the barrel and cap show no wear.

Any dating information would be helpful.