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Pens for Sale:
Parker  "Other Early"
Eyedropper Lucky Curve, Challenger, Parkette,  Thrift etc
All in working order unless noted.

Pens for sale in relative scale.
"Sold" pens shown with small images. 

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Parker Vacumatic
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Parker 51
Parker "Other Late"



Pen 2564R Parker True Blue 1929   $265 Flex Nib SOLD

Overall Grade: Exc
Metal: NM Color:  Fine CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: NM
threads:  Perfect clarity: NA
Point: Fine Flex Imprint:  Exc Size: 4 1/2" 11 1/2 cm
PRICE: $265
COMMENTSTrue Blue, a pen that connects with Parker's so-called Thrift Time pens has seen a resurgence of popularity due to the release of a modern Duofold in tribute plastic.  This one is quite clean. Color is not  perfect but is well above average (many of these have gone brown). Trim is immaculate. Nib has marked flex but also is a bit scratchy. 

Pen 2563R  Parker Deluxe Challenger Type 1 Set  $190
Emerald Pearl Plaque-on-Black Celluloid 1936

Overall Grade:Exc
Metal: Exc Color:  Exc CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
threads:  Perfect clarity:  NA
Point: Fine Imprint:  Exc Size: 5 1/8" 13.9cm
PRICE: $190
COMMENTS:  Excellent condition and color. Clean trim.  The Deluxe would switch to Type 2 styling in 1937

Pen 2596 Parker "Toothbrush" Duofold Slender   $185
Silver Pearl Celluloid 1939

Overall Grade: Exc
Metal: Exc Color:  Fine CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: exc
Threads:  Exc clarity:    NA
Point: F-M Semiflex Imprint:  Exc Size 4 3/4" 12cm PRICE: $185
COMMENTS:  Essentially a one year model, this 1939 pen resurrected the Duofold name following a several year hiatus.  The geometric pattern today is commonly referred to as "toothbrush". This one has superb trim (the chrome trim is often found trashed) and has one splotch each on the cap and barrel of ambering, otherwise bright white. Nice semi-flex Fine-Med Nib.

Pen 2568R Parker Challenger set $240 SOLD
Blue Pearl Mottled Celluloid 1940. A "one year" color
 (note two views given of the one pen)

Overall Grade: Exc+
Metal: Exc+ Color: Exc CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads perfect clarity:  NA
Point:  Fine SemiFlex Imprint:  Exc Size: 5 1/8" 13cm
PRICE: $240
COMMENTS:  This one more or less is the king of the regular Challenger series, which ran 1934-1940. With a couple key generations, all 7 years saw production of Black, Green, Red, and Grey. However, Blue was intro'd at very end of 1939, making it a one year color. Far less common than the others. As with all Challengers, tough to find clean. This set is the cleanest Blue i've handled, with superb trim, color, imprint, etc.

Pen 2598 Parker Challenger Slender  $125
 "One Year Color" Blue Mottled Celluloid

Overall Grade:  Extra Fine
Metal: Extrafine Color: Exc CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads:  perfect clarity: N/A
Point: F-M Semiflex Imprint:  None Size: 4 3/4" 12cm
PRICE: $125 
COMMENTSThe regular Challenger series, which ran 1934-1940. With a couple key generations, all 7 years saw production of Black, Green, Red, and Grey. However, Blue was intro'd at very end of 1939, making it a one year color. Far less common than the others. As with all Challengers, tough to find clean. This one is decent.  Light speckling of brass to the clip. Cap-band is free of brassing but some of the clear laquer found on 1940's pens is gone. Nice imprint and color. 

Pen 2548R Parker Royal Challenger Slender  $225
1940 Final Trim Configuration SIlver Pearl Celluloid

Overall Grade:  ExtraFine
Metal: Exc Color: Exc CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads:  Exc clarity: N/A
Point: Fine Imprint:  Exc Size: 4 3/4" 12.1cm
PRICE: $225
COMMENTS:  Superb Royal. The first -Vacumatic to hit $5 price point after the discontinuation of the original Duofold. Royal Challengers are by the top tier of the Challenger Family. You probably know my "silver pearl" screed by now. That color tends to underprice other colors in the Parker/Sheaffer 1930's pens, often because the chrome trim is trashed and the pale celluloid shows ambering more easily than other colors. But, clean Silver Pearl pens carry extra cachet. This one is clean with essentially perfect trim and plastic color. Nice clarity to the visometer gripping section. Only imperfection is a couple-mm  nick just below the cap-band. Very pretty pen. Very tough to find this clean.

Pen 2502 Parker True Blue  $150
Long Streamlined Model ~ 1929

Overall Grade:  VG
Metal: VG Color:  Fine CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads:  Exc clarity:  NA
Point: Fine Imprint:  Fine Size: 4 7/8" 12.4 cm
PRICE: $150 
COMMENTSA classic sub-Duofold-line pen by Parker, recently given tribute via the modern True Blue Duofold. Plastic is clean. Clip-ball shows brassing as does about 2/3 of the cap-band. Barrel has moderate ambering. Gripping section is a smidge short.

Pen 2457 Parker Deluxe Challenger 1937   $135
Green "Plaque on Black" celluloid

Overall Grade: Fine-XF
Metal: Lite brass in places. Color: Superb CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads perfect clarity:    NA
Point:   F-M. Some Flex Imprint:  Exc Size: 4 3/4" 12.1cm
PRICE: $135
COMMENTS:  I've had a nice run of Deluxe Challenger the last couple updates. This one is a clean Green Slender model. 1937.  Nice color, trim, imprint. Nib has honest flex going from typical Parker Fine-Med to just about Broad. It is not a wet noodle.  Flex is not common in 1930's Parker pens.

Pen 2523 Parker Challenger Standard 1937  $50 SOLD
Unrestored. From Vacumania's Basement

Overall Grade:  ExtraFine
Metal: ExtraFine Color:  ExtraFine CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads:  Exc clarity:  NA
Point: F-M Imprint:  Exc Size: 5 1/8" 12.9 cm
PRICE: $50 
COMMENTS:  A sound pen that will look nice when cleaned up.  Restore it yourself or send out to one of the guys. If i get around to having it retored at my end, figure it will be up at around $100. No warranty on this unrestored pen.

Pen 2400 Parker Baby Lucky Curve
Gold Filled Metal Pen ~1920  $255

Overall Grade: Exc
Metal: Exc Color:  NA CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc later nib
Threads:  perfect clarity:    NA
Point:  Smooth fine-med Imprint:  Exc Size: 3 1/2"
PRICE: $255 
COMMENTSThis late 1910s-early 1920's Button-Fill all gold-filled Parker is a wee charmer. Excellent condition with neat elegant initials in the cartouche- not uncommon as these were cherished gifts back in the day.  About the cleanest of the three or four i've owned during the last 9 years. The nib is a late 1920's-early1930's Parker nib, and is smooth writing. Crisp pen.

Pen 2280 Parker Lucky Curve Bakelite Eyedropper-filler  $625 SOLD
Flex Nib. Excellent imprint. ~1920

Overall Grade:  ExtraFine
Metal: Exc Color:  Fine CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads:  perfect Clarity:    Exc
Point:   Fine Flex Imprint:  Exc barrel Size: 4 7/8" 12.5cm
PRICE: $625 
COMMENTS:  Parker's first dance with transparent barrel material. The Bakelite Lucky Curve pens are far less common than typical Hard Rubber. The correct hard rubber cap has a light "Jack Knife Safety" Parker imprint,  The barrel imprint is excellent. Metal is clean. 

Pen 1895 Parker Lucky Curve flat-top Modernistic (True) Blue  1928  $
Aggghhhh. I cannot do it. Withdrawn from sale. Staying with me a bit longer

Overall Grade: Extra Fine
Metal: Extra Fine Color:  Exc CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc
Threads:  perfect clarity:    NA