What Parkers Have Joined Your Collection Lately?

[shalitha33]

While not exactly a new addition or strictly speaking a parker pen, following are two fairly beaten-up Valentines.
I believe these were made in what became Parker's Newhaven factory. 

 

Clips on both pens are broken so I'm not sure what its supposed to look like.
Model numbers for the pen with rotating lines pattern 02 . Unreadable on the black pen. 

 

Valentine may have ended up in Newhaven after acquiring Felix Macauley the makers of sosimple self-filler fountain pen ?   

 

[Glenn-SC]

I got a “51” Modern in Rage Red with a Fine nib.   Inked it with Diamine Party Time. No cleaning. No flossing.  Just inked it up. 
The pen writes absolutely perfectly!  

[donnweinberg]

12 hours ago, Glenn-SC said:

I got a “51” Modern in Rage Red with a Fine nib.   Inked it with Diamine Party Time. No cleaning. No flossing.  Just inked it up. 
The pen writes absolutely perfectly!

 

It’s a gorgeous pen, and I’ve had the same experience with it.  The newer 51s may not satisfy the 51-purists, but they write well.  

[Glenn-SC]

2 hours ago, donnweinberg said:

 

It’s a gorgeous pen, and I’ve had the same experience with it.  The newer 51s may not satisfy the 51-purists, but they write well.  

The “51-purists” claiming that the newer “51”s are not real “51”s is like claiming that the 2025 Ford Mustang is not a “real” Mustang because none of the parts interchange with the original 1964-1/2 model.  
(BTW i have 75 or so combined “51”s, 21s, Torellis, Bexleys and Prathers.)

[cat74]

I think maybe I was lucky to get this lot purchase for just under $30 per pen. 3 Parker 25s(all the rage nowadays!) flighters with blue and black trim and a black version(an M a F and an unmarked..looks like M nib) also a Parker 95 and Vector. After test driving a green and orange Moonman copy of the 25 I figured I'd give the real deal a try!!

[ralfstc]

Hi folks,

 

In a batch of pens I picked up recently for . . . very little . . . were a "51" demi set. I didn't pay too much attention to them. When I got home ad was sorting them out I wondered whether they could actually be plum. The year is right, the filler is right. They are Canadian, and I wasn't sure Canada made plum. The colour is half a shade browner than US plum, but if you shine a bright light through the plastic of the barrel, the purple plum colour shines through no doubt whatsoever.

 

They're in great condition and I am delighted with them. A nice unexpected bonus from life.

 

The middle pen is a British Burgundy, but not bloody . . . darn, plum is hard to capture, isn't it?

 

Cheers,

 

Ralf

 

 

 

[jchch1950]

Plum Parker 51 are always nice acquisitions. Congratulations.

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

very jealous... congrats

 

[inkstainedruth]

I found that with my Plum Demi, it was hard to tell what the color was until I got it outside in the sunlight, and compared it to the black 51 that had come in the same mail (I also compared it to a burgundy 21 that I already had).

That's the pen they're gonna have to pry out of my cold dead fingers.  Unless I can someday manage to score a full sized one (without having to pay an arm and a leg and another arm, of course...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Estycollector]

24 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I found that with my Plum Demi, it was hard to tell what the color was until I got it outside in the sunlight, and compared it to the black 51 that had come in the same mail (I also compared it to a burgundy 21 that I already had).

That's the pen they're gonna have to pry out of my cold dead fingers.  Unless I can someday manage to score a full sized one (without having to pay an arm and a leg and another arm, of course...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

At least when you pass we will all know where to look.....😂

[inkstainedruth]

2 minutes ago, Estycollector said:

At least when you pass we will all know where to look.....😂

Yeah, probably in an auction at some pen show....  Except for the Sheaffer Balance Oversized with the replacement cap that had been my husband's grandfather's -- I'd like to keep that one in the family if at all possible -- maybe my husband's great-nephew (I forget how old the kid is now).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Carguy]

The full size Plum I still have stays inked constantly. Dang I love that pen!

[Estycollector]

14 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Yeah, probably in an auction at some pen show....  Except for the Sheaffer Balance Oversized with the replacement cap that had been my husband's grandfather's -- I'd like to keep that one in the family if at all possible -- maybe my husband's great-nephew (I forget how old the kid is now).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

😂I was going to recommend checking your " cold dead fingers". 

[Mercian]

On 3/11/2025 at 3:15 AM, cat74 said:

I think maybe I was lucky to get this lot purchase for just under $30 per pen. 3 Parker 25s(all the rage nowadays!) flighters with blue and black trim and a black version(an M a F and an unmarked..looks like M nib) also a Parker 95 and Vector. After test driving a green and orange Moonman copy of the 25 I figured I'd give the real deal a try!

 

Ooh, very nice haul - and at a price that is very much a bargain! Well done you!

 

I would like to get a 25 Flighter with the black trim - and I'm in the UK, where they were made, so one would expect them to be easy/inexpensive to find.
But they very much aren't! 😥

[Beechwood]

On 3/16/2025 at 12:17 PM, Mercian said:

 

Ooh, very nice haul - and at a price that is very much a bargain! Well done you!

 

I would like to get a 25 Flighter with the black trim - and I'm in the UK, where they were made, so one would expect them to be easy/inexpensive to find.
But they very much aren't! 😥

 

 

There was a vogue for the 25 about 5 years ago with any coloured trim apart from blue, they were fetching silly prices which I put down to aging men wanting the pen that took them through school work when the 25 was new.

 

As my mail delivery person says, 'men will buy anything shiny that reminds them of their youth, but at least it keeps me in work'.

[Mercian]

3 minutes ago, Beechwood said:

As my mail delivery person says, 'men will buy anything shiny that reminds them of their youth, but at least it keeps me in work'.

 

Hmm. It sounds as though your mail delivery person might previously have worked around here...

 

I like the ugly, boxy, 'no-nonsense' design/shape of the 25.
Despite its 1970s-'Futuristic' packaging, it has an unapologetically-practical (almost Soviet) appearance in that it is a product of a basic, uncomplicated, approach to industrial design.

 

I (also) appreciate the 25 for its quality of being built like a tank. To me, it seems even more robust than an all-steel Vector.
Ok, so it doesn't have an 'exciting' flexy nib, and I bet it's a right pain to try to clean out thoroughly if one were to let an ink dry-out in it, but one could take it anywhere, and not fear damaging it.

Although, sadly, at the prices that are currently being asked for the (very common) black-trimmed ones, I would still be frit of the prospect of losing it (I have Yorkshire blood).

[Sheptonian]

25 minutes ago, Beechwood said:

 

 

There was a vogue for the 25 about 5 years ago with any coloured trim apart from blue, they were fetching silly prices which I put down to aging men wanting the pen that took them through school work when the 25 was new.

 

As my mail delivery person says, 'men will buy anything shiny that reminds them of their youth, but at least it keeps me in work'.

 

12 minutes ago, Mercian said:

 

Hmm. It sounds as though your mail delivery person might previously have worked around here...

 

I like the ugly, boxy, 'no-nonsense' design/shape of the 25.
Despite its 1970s-'Futuristic' packaging, it has an unapologetically-practical (almost Soviet) appearance in that it is a product of a basic, uncomplicated, approach to industrial design.

 

I (also) appreciate the 25 for its quality of being built like a tank. To me, it seems even more robust than an all-steel Vector.
Ok, so it doesn't have an 'exciting' flexy nib, and I bet it's a right pain to try to clean out thoroughly if one were to let an ink dry-out in it, but one could take it anywhere, and not fear damaging it.

Although, sadly, at the prices that are currently being asked for the (very common) black-trimmed ones, I would still be frit of the prospect of losing it (I have Yorkshire blood).

Spot on, both!

 

Couldn't afford a P25 when at school so I used one as my only FP for about a quarter century after I got a proper job.  I wouldn't pay silly money for one now, mind.

[cat74]

Yeah...sadly I didn't know of the 25 until the clone version was released and then prices got real crazy real quick!!! - I feel lucky for the pickup that I got - I think these will make decent pens for use at the office or just and EDC pen. It's crazy that people are asking basically what I paid for all 5 pens for just one 25!!

[Beechwood]

 

Parker 61 with a special cap and a working Liquid Lead pencil and matching cap to the pen

[senzen]

On 2/26/2025 at 7:02 AM, 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.

 

Gorgeous!