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Theo’s mom here. Just bought another Christmas gift for my pen collector, but I don’t know what it is except that it’s a duofold. Do any of you know?

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Hi,
I am by no means any kind of expert on Duofolds, so caveat lectrix….
 

I looked at this webpage on Tony Fischier’s brilliant website on the history of Parker pen models.

Your pen seems to me to be a ‘Senior DeLuxe in Moderne Pearl Green and Black, aka Sea Green Pearl’.
It looks very much like the pen that is tenth from the top of the first ‘group’ photograph.

 

If you scroll past nearly all of the pictures, you will see a block of text that says that this was the last colour-scheme to be introuduced for the Duofold, in 1932. It also says that Parker stopped making Duofolds in the USA in 1933.

 

At the very bottom of that page is a table that details the sizes of each different Duofold model. Measuring your pen should enable you to identify which particular model of Duofold it is.

 

Slàinte,
M.

Foul in clear conditions, but handsome in the fog.

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Tony's website is just great!

 

My guess is, the nib on your pen is a later replacement, as the original nib would have said 'Parker Duofold'

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Yes this is the sea foam green Duofold. I believe these were only made in the streamlined. And that nib is definitely a replacement. Possibly a replacement nib of the original owner as the later Duofolds would have overlapped with the vacumatic nibs so if the pen was sent in for nib repair it could have gotten this nib from parker 

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