What Parkers Have Joined Your Collection Lately?

[Penguincollector]

     The Snake is so pretty! I’m simultaneously jealous and happy for you, @PAKMAN! 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Wheee!!!

[Sheptonian]

Oh wow! 

 

I second both @Penguincollector and @Bo Bo Olson. Nothing more to be said, really..

 

     

[Sheptonian]

I am still relatively new to pre-war Parkers so I stand to be corrected but I believe that this could be a mid-1920s Midget Duette set? Shown alongside an Over-Size Duofold and a Streamlined Duofold Lady for scale.

 

The pen is c.87mm (3 ³/₈") so about the same size as a later vest-pocket Duofold, I think.

 

Edited October 3, 2025 by Sheptonian
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[Penguincollector]

That’s a lovely set, @Sheptonian! Beautiful condition too. May I see the nib? I think it’s a Duette set- I found this photo at parkersheaffer.com:

 

[Mercian]

On 10/1/2025 at 6:49 AM, inkstainedruth said:

I picked up what I *think* is a Parker 45 (but might have been a "parts" pen.  The cap does NOT say "45" on it,

 

If this helps you at all, none of my four 45's has '45' stamped on its cap.

My pens are:

• a 'Flighter' Ballpoint that was made in England in the late 1960s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in France in the early 1970s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in England in the early 1970s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in England in the mid-late 1970s

 

Slàinte,
M.

[Mercian]

2 hours ago, Sheptonian said:

I second both @Penguincollector and @Bo Bo Olson. Nothing more to be said, really..

 

Yes, this!

 

@PAKMAN has a very fine collection of silver pens, and I must admit that I am increasingly envious of his possession of so many Shiny Things! 

[inkstainedruth]

40 minutes ago, Mercian said:

 

If this helps you at all, none of my four 45's has '45' stamped on its cap.

My pens are:

• a 'Flighter' Ballpoint that was made in England in the late 1960s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in France in the early 1970s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in England in the early 1970s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in England in the mid-late 1970s
•  

Slàinte,
M.

Good to know.  I know that at least some of mine do have the 45 engraved on the cap.  But because my computer was going wonky last week, I haven't really been able to do a deep dive on parkercollector.com (and then was also dealing with other really stressful "real world" stuff as well...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sheptonian]

19 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

That’s a lovely set, @Sheptonian! Beautiful condition too. May I see the nib? I think it’s a Duette set- I found this photo at parkersheaffer.com:

 

Thanks, @Penguincollector. Yes that's what led me down the Midget Duette route (I found the same catalogue in the PCA archive) albeit that my pen is plain rather than the chased one illustrated. I see that elsewhere "Midget" appears to be interchangeable with "Vest Pocket"..

 

My apologies - I should have shown the nib. I doubt it will be the original. It is simply marked "Warranted 14K".  Here are a couple of photos.

 

 

 

 

[Penguincollector]

  What a gorgeous pen , @Sheptonian. I love the Xmas tree feeds in these. I think it’s harder to find the plain varieties in ads and catalogs for some reason, I have a plain black ebonite Jack Knife button filler that I had a hard time identifying because everyone (manufacturers included) likes to show pictures of the chased pens. Underneath the picture of the chased pen it says “No. 40/68 same put plain $8.50.” 

[Sheptonian]

38 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  What a gorgeous pen , @Sheptonian. I love the Xmas tree feeds in these. I think it’s harder to find the plain varieties in ads and catalogs for some reason, I have a plain black ebonite Jack Knife button filler that I had a hard time identifying because everyone (manufacturers included) likes to show pictures of the chased pens. Underneath the picture of the chased pen it says “No. 40/68 same put plain $8.50.” 

Doh! Of course it Is - thanks for pointing it out.

[Sheptonian]

On 10/2/2025 at 9:37 PM, Mercian said:

 

If this helps you at all, none of my four 45's has '45' stamped on its cap.

My pens are:

• a 'Flighter' Ballpoint that was made in England in the late 1960s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in France in the early 1970s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in England in the early 1970s;
• a 'Flighter' FP that was made in England in the mid-late 1970s

 

Slàinte,
M.

Turns out that I have accumulated a few more P45s than I remembered over the years. Here is the distribution of "45" marked metal caps in case it is any help, @inkstainedruth. In a nutshell, all my USA pens have "45" engraved caps, ²/₃ of my Newhaven ones don't, and my only French variant isn't marked, either:

 

 

Best, S

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 4, 2025 by Sheptonian
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[Targa]

Got a 50th anniversary present (and also a big let-down- another story) - a 1999-2000 (exactly!) Duofold "Greenwhich", one of theoretically 1000 made ( max 1000 more as rollerballs) for the Greenwich Observatory to commemorate the turn of the 1900s to the 2000s.  There is a nice wood box inside the outer box.  It is a bit peculiar in that the nib is a "banner-over-arrow nib of that time,., and the barrel is of the contemporary streamline style, but the cap is a"flat top".  The BCHR look is very appealing IMHO.  

The let down was we ordered flown-in lobsters, next AM shipping at hideous cost, and they did not arrive.  Suppliers answer 2 days late was "caveat emptor" except not in Latin.  What a bunch of crooks.

In the end we went to a very nice local place for seafood, and had a very nice champagne (Perrier-Jouet) at home afterwards, and opened our presents.  

 

This post makes me think about another thread in this forum - I like and have a number of modern Duofold special or limited editions, and I am certain many others here do as well.

Would that make another good thread, or is it here already and I just missed it?  

 

[Targa]

PS, I just now inked it up (Private Reserve American Blue Fast-Dry) and it is very very smooth.

[Bo Bo Olson]

 I'm so behind the moon, I thought that was '20-30's.

Still a superb pen.

[inkstainedruth]

@Sheptonian Thanks for the information!

I have to look the pen over some more after I flushed out the dregs of the dried up cartridge in it -- Super Quink in what appeared to be blue or blue black ink a few days ago -- but because of having issues with my laptop (some of which I'm still having -- even after resetting both my sign in password and my account password ) with both it deciding to log me out after just a few minutes if I have to walk away from it for some reason and having trouble with email -- I don't seem to be getting mail on EITHER of my main email accounts; had to send email to the person running OPS next month and the message sat in my outbox for something like a day -- gave up and copied and pasted it into the gmail account, which is basically ONLY used as a spam filter and (up until recently) to log into one of the "phone spam report" sites....  So I haven't had a chance to look up the old Tyler Dahl video someone on FPN pointed me to when I got my first 45, so as to take the nib assembly apart for *really* thorough cleaning.

Not even quite sure of the color (as to whether it would be considered "Burgundy" or "Rage Red") because I haven't had a chance to look at ParkerCollector.com either (half my afternoon was taken up with a guy writing up an estimate on repairing a bunch of water pipe issues in our house, and then dropping my husband off down the hill at the car mechanics to pick up the minivan which was supposedly fixed).  Then went to a library in a town in the area to check out a book I wanted to read and the GPS took me this really convoluted back route; then it turned out that the book's cover is basically coming off  (the desk librarian made a note of the condition (so I wouldn't get blamed for it) and put a couple of big rubber bands on the book as well.  Right after I got back on the highway (what SHOULD normally have been the more direct and "sane" trip home) my husband called to say that the van is STILL having problems  and could I pick him up at the mechanic's.  Only in order to talk to him I had to pull off the highway (PA passed a law prohibiting handheld phone use while driving) to call him back, and then (for some unknown reason, INBOUND traffic was worse (wondering if Pitt had a football game tonight) and I had trouble getting back on the road...).  

So by the time I got home it was almost 5 PM and I'm still something of a wreck.  And have to dig through a huge bunch of papers to find the checkbook for the trust fund that I'm the trustee for, since the new checkbook came in the mail this morning....  So, at this point?  I'm just a basket case....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[lamarax]

9 hours ago, Targa said:

Got a 50th anniversary present (and also a big let-down- another story) - a 1999-2000 (exactly!) Duofold "Greenwhich", one of theoretically 1000 made ( max 1000 more as rollerballs) for the Greenwich Observatory to commemorate the turn of the 1900s to the 2000s.  There is a nice wood box inside the outer box.  It is a bit peculiar in that the nib is a "banner-over-arrow nib of that time,., and the barrel is of the contemporary streamline style, but the cap is a"flat top".  The BCHR look is very appealing IMHO.  

The let down was we ordered flown-in lobsters, next AM shipping at hideous cost, and they did not arrive.  Suppliers answer 2 days late was "caveat emptor" except not in Latin.  What a bunch of crooks.

In the end we went to a very nice local place for seafood, and had a very nice champagne (Perrier-Jouet) at home afterwards, and opened our presents.  

 

This post makes me think about another thread in this forum - I like and have a number of modern Duofold special or limited editions, and I am certain many others here do as well.

Would that make another good thread, or is it here already and I just missed it?  

 

 

 I've found one of these NOS a couple of months ago and didn't get it... 

[Penguincollector]

  Wow, @Targa, an amazing gift for a momentous occasion! Congratulations to you both! What a gorgeous Duofold, the chasing is so beautiful. 

[TheRedBeard]

On 10/1/2025 at 1:32 AM, Glenn-SC said:

My vote goes to Rage Red. 

+1  

[fullfederhalter]

I got this very nice circa 1939 green Parker Duofold (often referred to as Geometric or Toothbrush pattern).  Only the second one I've ever found, and this one is in much nicer condition.  The nib could stand to be straightened a bit, but it actually writes very well as it is.