What Parkers Have Joined Your Collection Lately?

[inkstainedruth]

Very nice find!  

I don't think I've ever seen one in person -- let alone found one for sale in the wild....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[samba]

Parker 65 classic in Teal Blue, Made in England, Medium 14k nib.

[cat74]

29 minutes ago, samba said:

Parker 65 classic in Teal Blue, Made in England, Medium 14k nib.

Beautiful!

[samba]

Parker '17' Super Duofold in Dark Blue, Made in England, 14K Medium nib. Currently inked up with Pelikan Royal Blue.

[Targa]

Just got a nice "modern" Mandarin yellow..,  Have not tried it out yet.

[inkstainedruth]

Am I reading the imprint right?  Is that some sort of (semi) limited edition?
Because that does look like a nice bright cheery color, now that daylight savings time has ended and it's November (and getting really overcast at the moment around here, just outside Pittsburgh -- and it's not even 4:30 PM here yet....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[donnweinberg]

Gorgeous pen.  I obtained one a few year ago and haven’t inked it.

[Carguy]

54 minutes ago, donnweinberg said:

Gorgeous pen.  I obtained one a few year ago and haven’t inked it.

I have one also, but without the box and papers. I haven’t inked it either.

[Targa]

2 hours ago, Carguy said:

I have one also, but without the box and papers. I haven’t inked it either.

I will likely use it.  I'm too old to forgo such pleasures.  It looks like it ought to be a smooth wet nib ....

[jchch1950]

17 hours ago, Targa said:

Just got a nice "modern" Mandarin yellow..,  Have not tried it out yet.

A very nice limited edition.

[Glenn-SC]

14 hours ago, Carguy said:

I have one also, but without the box and papers. I haven’t inked it either.

I have one also, #6872.
Mine is still unlinked. 

[titrisol]

Cisele Parker 75, I wanted this pen for  a long time

It says XF but feels more like an F

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting.  I have a couple, one with a B nib and one with a F nib.  And both of them keep getting filled with purple inks.  I had to stop using the one with the B nib because I was running the MB Jimi Hendrix ink through it -- and while it looked SOOOOO good coming out of that pen?  I realized that I was going through the bottle WAAAAAY too fast.  And of course I paid full retail price for the ink and am now kicking myself that I didn't buy a second bottle while it was still readily available -- because now?  The prices of that ink are through the roof.... 

The one with the F nib is currently inked up with Waterman Tender Purple (also a really nice combination, and a lot less expensive an ink).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[titrisol]

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting.  I have a couple, one with a B nib and one with a F nib.  And both of them keep getting filled with purple inks.  I had to stop using the one with the B nib because I was running the MB Jimi Hendrix ink through it -- and while it looked SOOOOO good coming out of that pen?  I realized that I was going through the bottle WAAAAAY too fast.  And of course I paid full retail price for the ink and am now kicking myself that I didn't buy a second bottle while it was still readily available -- because now?  The prices of that ink are through the roof.... 

The one with the F nib is currently inked up with Waterman Tender Purple (also a really nice combination, and a lot less expensive an ink).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I wanted one for ever... my dad bought one at the time I was ready for my first communion but gave it to my cousin a week before.

I have a couple of stainless (M and F) but the cisele is something else.

 

And Waterman Tender Purple... hell yeah!

[TheRedBeard]

On 11/5/2025 at 9:18 PM, Targa said:

Just got a nice "modern" Mandarin yellow..,  Have not tried it out yet.

Very nice one  Congratulations! 

[Beechwood]

On 10/30/2025 at 12:30 PM, samba said:

Parker '17' Super Duofold in Dark Blue, Made in England, 14K Medium nib. Currently inked up with Pelikan Royal Blue.

 

 

I would be going through the age old dilemma of what do you do when you have bought a pen with the original chalk marks. 

[samba]

22 hours ago, Beechwood said:

 

 

I would be going through the age old dilemma of what do you do when you have bought a pen with the original chalk marks. 

I would love to simply ink it up and write 🙂

[Sheptonian]

A speedline Vacumatic pen and a Vacumatic pencil, both with a Royal Air Force badge attached. The vendor told me that they were from an attic clearance in the UK.

 

 

Both pen and pencil are of Canadian manufacture. The pen is dated 1939 Q3 but there is no date code on the pencil. The badge is the the Royal Air Force eagle. 

 

The badge has been affixed to the barrel exactly opposite the imprint in both cases which makes me wonder if Parker might have had something to do with it. I have seen wartime Parker advertisements for sets in cases carrying the insignia of branches of the armed services but nothing about pens with emblems attached. Alternatively (and more likely, I guess) whoever did fit the badges paid great attention to detail.

 

The pen and pencil both must have been sold during the earlier part of WW2 (that is, beginning September 1939 over here) when Vacumatics and Duofolds were available for sale in the UK for a fairly short period (perhaps 18 months or so IIRC) before Govermnent restrictions prevented the production and sale of more expensive pens. Those restrictions, of course, led to the introduction of the many different Parker Victory models.

 

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.

 

I was wondering if anybody could shed any light on this unusual pair or on wartime decoration of Parker pens more generally.

 

 

 

 

[InkyProf]

Well, I guess I have a new Duofold Junior. Yesterday, I stumbled across two Parkers for six dollars each: a grey 61 capillary filler, in excellent condition from the outside; we’ll see what happens when I flush it. And a red/orange Permanite Duofold Junior, from 1926 or 1927, with a later comb feed, missing its blind cap and a little ink-stained on the exterior but with a sound-looking nib that looks like a medium or maybe a broad stub.

 

Yesterday and today, it got a thorough cleaning and polishing and a new sac; it cleaned up very well, and after just a little tweaking, the nib writes beautifully. Although I already have one of these in my collection, with an intact Lucky Curve feed, and hadn’t necessarily planned to keep this one (though I also don’t really have a strategy for the pens I’ve been fixing up this year; they’re just going into a different mental box for now), that other pen has a very fine nib with a totally different character. I like the way this writes enough that it might be a keeper, at least for now!

 

[inkstainedruth]

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