What Parkers Have Joined Your Collection Lately?

[Bo Bo Olson]

Not joined, but seen.

Today, I saw my first P-21, and now know why I always thought there were two versions of the P-45, one with a round P-51 type of barrel. From my '58 4th grade starting with fountain pens it was around as a school pen. The P-21 that had a barrel that looked like the P-51, and the other with the regular tapered barrel of the P-45.

The P-21 had somewhat off from expected, and not too prominent, triangular gripping surfaces on the front section.

[inkstainedruth]

2 hours ago, Sheptonian said:

 

@inkstainedruth OK: Apologies for the scribble but you did ask.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks! 

What are the inks in the two pens?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Runnin_Ute]

A Slimfold arrived this week. Broad nib. Bought it from Teri at Peyton Street Pens. 

[Sheptonian]

12 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks! 

What are the inks in the two pens?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Well now, the P61 is my much-loved yet abused day-to-day workhorse that hardly ever gets cleaned-out properly. Whenever the ink runs out it gets whichever variety of blue Quink is in the spare cartridge that I keep in my laptop bag so it is hard to say, really, beyond "blue Quink", what that blue is actually made up of.

 

Knowing your interest in inks I should have found a converter for the Slimfold and used my only posh ink (Diamine Imperial Blue) but I didn't. There was a cartridge to hand so I am afraid that it is simply Quink washable blue of unknown vintage. 

[Sheptonian]

6 hours ago, Runnin_Ute said:

A Slimfold arrived this week. Broad nib. Bought it from Teri at Peyton Street Pens. 

 

Oh, that's rather nice. 

 

It is great to see a Slimfold without the fading to the colour that you find often with the Newhaven aerometric Duofolds. And English Broad nibs really are quite broad...

[mitto]

This just landed at my doorstep.  A Canadian Arrow with black section and green barrel in pristine condition. 

 

[jchch1950]

Thank you for posting the photos of your new pen. It is an uncommon writing instrument.

[JonSzanto]

I just restored this Lucky Curve #2-1/2 the other night. I purchased the body, sans internals and nib, from 5 Star Pens via eBay. It was beyond reasonably priced and it was the crispness of the chasing that got me. I wasn't dead certain about my parts box but damn, sure enough, I had the right nib for it from a beater and a pressure bar from another. Put the sac in and only gave it a light wipe down, as this pen seems to have been stored somewhere safe most of it's life, with no discernable discoloration. I have a #4-1/2 to pair it with in the same condition, though I might try to source a clip for this little one so they really do match. Happy with how it turned out.

 

[jchch1950]

6 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

I just restored this Lucky Curve #2-1/2 the other night. I purchased the body, sans internals and nib, from 5 Star Pens via eBay. It was beyond reasonably priced and it was the crispness of the chasing that got me. I wasn't dead certain about my parts box but damn, sure enough, I had the right nib for it from a beater and a pressure bar from another. Put the sac in and only gave it a light wipe down, as this pen seems to have been stored somewhere safe most of it's life, with no discernable discoloration. I have a #4-1/2 to pair it with in the same condition, though I might try to source a clip for this little one so they really do match. Happy with how it turned out.

 

Good restoration.

[Sheptonian]

Shortly after finding the late New Slimfold I came across this - a late UK Aerometric Duofold with the Parker 45 style cap and clip:

 

 

The pen has not been used very much but I imagine from the scratches to the barrel and cap that it might have lived loose in a drawer for some time. It certainly hasn't seen much sunlight.

 

 

 

The nib will be original:

 

 

And the educational point for me was finding no barrel imprint but this on the cap (my late slimfold caps don't identify the model).:

 

 

 

 

 

[cat74]

On 2/2/2025 at 3:15 AM, mitto said:

This just landed at my doorstep.  A Canadian Arrow with black section and green barrel in pristine condition. 

 

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

[Penguincollector]

On 2/2/2025 at 8:36 PM, JonSzanto said:

I just restored this Lucky Curve #2-1/2 the other night. I purchased the body, sans internals and nib, from 5 Star Pens via eBay. It was beyond reasonably priced and it was the crispness of the chasing that got me. I wasn't dead certain about my parts box but damn, sure enough, I had the right nib for it from a beater and a pressure bar from another. Put the sac in and only gave it a light wipe down, as this pen seems to have been stored somewhere safe most of it's life, with no discernable discoloration. I have a #4-1/2 to pair it with in the same condition, though I might try to source a clip for this little one so they really do match. Happy with how it turned out.

 

 This is just lovely 🥰 

[Penguincollector]

On 2/6/2025 at 11:04 AM, Sheptonian said:

Shortly after finding the late New Slimfold I came across this - a late UK Aerometric Duofold with the Parker 45 style cap and clip:

 

 

The pen has not been used very much but I imagine from the scratches to the barrel and cap that it might have lived loose in a drawer for some time. It certainly hasn't seen much sunlight.

 

 

 

The nib will be original:

 

 

And the educational point for me was finding no barrel imprint but this on the cap (my late slimfold caps don't identify the model).:

 

 

 

 

 

  I am so coveting your pen right now.

[Sheptonian]

Two unusual Victories in decent condition but with faint imprints:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Geometric Duofold style Victory is Canadian from c. 1943, the other (Challenger style cap and Streamlined Duofold style body) has an English imprint and is probably from around the same time.

[inkstainedruth]

Wow!  Those are both really cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[donnweinberg]

Very nice, Sheptonian.

[Penguincollector]

The plating on these is in really good condition! Both are super pretty. The “toothbrushes” always make me smile. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

More...too pretty pens.

[Sheptonian]

On 2/11/2025 at 10:17 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Wow!  Those are both really cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

9 hours ago, donnweinberg said:

Very nice, Sheptonian.

 

6 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

The plating on these is in really good condition! Both are super pretty. The “toothbrushes” always make me smile. 

 

6 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

More...too pretty pens.

Thank you all. 

 

I fell lucky with these two lovely pens. The one with the Challenger cap came from eBay. I bid on it out of curiosity (the listing was rather vague) and was delighted but not altogether surprised to discover when it arrived that it was a Victory. As for the lovely Geometric Victory, there was a Geometric Duofold shaped hole in my collection and I am fascinated by the Parker Victory so the pen ticks both boxes until I find a Geometric Duofold with a Duofold imprint. The pen was my first purchase from Brian Toynton at Penamie. It certainly won't be my last.

 

Both of these pens are from the mid-WW2 years when the maximum price pens were allowed to be sold at was restricted by law (as was the cost of producing a pen) at less than half the pre-war price of a top of the range Vacumatic or Duofold. 

 

 

[Beechwood]

Thanks for posting Shep, we don't see the Toothbrush often enough.