Pen 3460:  Parker Vacuum Filler Stubby Ring-Top ~1933  $700 SOLD Rare High-Cachet Variant.
Overall Grade: Fine	Metal: ExtraFine	Color:  Fine
Nib condition: Excellent+	Threads: Perfect	clarity: NA
Point: Fine	Imprint: Light	Size: 4 3/8" 11cm	PRICE: $700
COMMENTS: If you already know this pen, then do skip the history lesson.  Sound example of this very challenging model. Barrel ambering is apparent, though not sever. Nib has correct early style feather-together arrow and is in superb shape. Imprint light but legible. Neat skewed laminations on the cap, an appealing feature sometimes found on early pens. History Lesson:   Isn't this just "a little Vac"?   Nope.  This pre-Vacumatic Parker Vacuum-Filler has full girth and is extra short. Thus, it is  fatter and shorter than typical ladies' models such as the Slender or the Debutante.  Collectors call it the Stubby.  It is known with Golden Arrow and Vacuum Filler imprints. Vacumatic-imprinted pens do turn up, usually with early features, sometimes with obviously early plastic (always opaque with one-piece barrel-section assembly) but  with later "parts blow out" date code.  The Stubby can be found with clip or with ring top (indeed, the parts can be exchanged, if one had spares).  While for most old pens, ring-tops have less cachet than clip pens, this is reversed for Parker Vacumatic, as ring tops in general were phasing out in the early 1930's, and because ring-top Vacs are frankly rare. The ring-top appears in minimal Parker literature.  This pen packs it all, with proper features and-- if not superb shape-- and very nice condition for this sort.  This probably is not an ideal toss-about pen, but is meant for someone seeking recognized high-cachet variants for his collection.  It has be a long time since I've offered a ring-top Stubby for sale.

Pen 3453:  Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima $600 SOLD Azure Blue Celluloid  1940-41
Overall Grade: Fine	Metal: Fine	Color:  Exc
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Exc	clarity: Modest
Point: Med+	Imprint: Fine	Size: 5 3/8" 13.6 cm	PRICE: $600
COMMENTS: The most difficult Maxima color, manufactured double jewel just 18 months vs 5 years for other colors. With full Excellent pens now running $900-$1000, this is offered as a quite decent, but not superb example. NO "fatal flaws". Some brassing to bottom edge of cap-band, visible in photo, nice color, partially present imprint. Great plump medium+ point.

Pen 3455:  Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima Pen with Major Pencil $675 Cap-bands on this slightly mismatched "set" have matching personalizations. Relatively Scarce Injector Pencil
Overall Grade: Exc+	Metal: Nearmint	Color:  Superb
Nib condition: Nearmint	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Superb
Point: ---F-M	Imprint: Superb	Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm	PRICE: $675
COMMENTS: You know my screed on Silver Pearl pens from the 1930's.  Today they are  more common and often less expensive than other colors. Generally they see  less demand today because the pale color shows celluloid discoloration more than other colors and because unlike gold-filled trim the chrome trim cannot readily be polished once worn or pitted.  My assertion is they are common because back in the day, when clean, they were stunningly lovely pens.  When you see one clean, it all makes sense.  When gems turn up, then tend to command a premium. This one is the exception to the rule. Superb color, chrome trim and transparency.  Bright bold clarity, with slight yellow tint.   It is amongst the best dozen silver-pearl Maxima sets I've seen... and I've seen many. The set formally is a mismatch, as the pencil is Vacumatic Major. Injector pencils such as this are uncommon, produced probaby just a couple months in early 1939.  But, both cap-bands have matching elegant engraving "W.A.B" suggesting an original pairing at time of sale. Superb set for the condition-oriented collector.

Pen 3456:  Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima  $640 SOLD Emerald Pearl Celluloid. 1940
Overall Grade: Excellent+	Metal: NM	Color:  Exc
Nib condition: Nearmint	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Exc. Light amber
Point: Fine. 2-Tone	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 3/8" 13.6 cm	PRICE: $640
COMMENTS: The big-boy from the 2nd Generation of Vacdom. Double Jewel. Wide Cap-band. Correct-for-year striped top jewel, two-tone nib, black gripping section and target pattern bottom pseudo-jewel. A superb Senior Max.

Pen 3457:  Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima  $725 SOLD Burgundy Pearl Celluloid. USA-Manufacture for South America with "Marca Registrada" Marking. Oh yeah... Uncommon USA-issue FLEX Nib.
Overall Grade: Exc	Metal: Extra-Fine	Color:  Exc
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Exc	clarity: Mild
Point: F-M  FLEX to B+	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 3/8" 13.6 cm	PRICE: $725
COMMENTS: The big-boy from the 2nd Generation of Vacdom. Double Jewel. Wide Cap-band. Correct-for-year striped top jewel, two-tone nib, black gripping section. True double jewel pen with striped bottom jewel, a "late" finding for this, as most 1940 pens have the target pattern pseudo-jewel.  Clean pen with good color, sharp imprint. Trace brass to very bottom edge of cap-band (loupe needed to see) and trace to tassie. Modest clarity to barrel.  Unusual feature: "Marca Registrada" imprint, believed to indicate intent for export to South America.  I have a complete "Marca Registrada"  Maxima set in my own collection, save possibly for Silver Pearl.  Great nib- high flex, something scarce to USA-made Vacs.

Pen 3224 J:  Parker Vacumatic SENIOR set. 1st Gen 1936 $700 Golden Pearl Celluloid
Overall Grade: ExtraFine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Extra Fine	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Strong Red
Point: Fine-MEd	Imprint:  Fine	Size: 5 3/8" 13.6cm	PRICE: $700
COMMENTS: Senior (not to be confused for Senior Maxima or Vacuum-Filler Senior) is a "one-year" model essentially a Slender Oversize and predecessor no doubt to the following year's Slender Maxima. A standard-girth pen with longer parts than the Standard, with greater streamlining at the ends, the hallmark finding is the wide middle cap-band, the only three-band vacumatic to sport such a finding. An oversized nib and feed are stuffed into a standadr size gripping section. Often these are found with replacement later smaller Major nibs.  A quite nice example. The pencil is more rare than the pen (as is typical for most vintage writing instruments). Imprint complete but light in places. Nib writes a smooth fine-medium line. Two-tone nib effect is light and partial.

Pen 3200 JB:  Parker Vacumatic  Major $215  Uncommon (and uncatalogued) "Stacked Coin" cap-band. Golden Pearl Celluloid Broad Semi-Flex nib
Overall Grade: Excellent	Metal: Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Exc	clarity: Nearmint
Point: Broad Semi-Flex	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $215
COMMENTS: 3rd Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are excellent "first" Vacs for collectors, offering good size at relatively affordable price.  The uncatalogued "stacked coin" band likely was used on pens with typical stripes from 1942-1945, also appearing on pens in Shadow Wave plasitc and on the "dread Vacu-Fold" in 1943-early 1943.  A nice twist on an otherwise basic Vac. This one is quite clean with no brassing, with excellent transparency, and with excellent imprint, which looks never to have had a date-code. Nib has plump broad point (uncommon in Vacs). The nib is buried a bit deeply in section. Superb writer.

Pen 3333:  Parker Vacumatic  Major "Jeweler's Cap-band"  1941  $250  3nd Generation. Black Celluloid
Overall Grade: Fine	Metal: Fine	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Fine	Threads:  Exc	clarity: Minimal AMber
Point: Full Medium	Imprint: Fine	Size: 5 3/8" 13.2 cm	PRICE: $250
COMMENTS: The so-called Jeweler's cap-band Vacs are relatively uncommon variants produced from 1939-1941. Factory original, the key finding is an extra-wide lined capband. 16 possible blue-diamond variants can be found- 4 sizes in 4 colors. Only in Nov 2006 did i finally complete this mini-collection, having tracked down the black small Debutante pen.   This one is the 2nd size pen with same contour used for the Major and Slender Maxima of that era, though all pens found with this cap-band have Major nib. This pen and the 1st Size pen (Senior Maxima) share the  larger of the two Jeweler's Band forms found in this variant cluster. A nice writer with full medium point and with nice eye appeal, the cap-band has a few visible tiny ('pin') dings in the cartouche, the imprint is light and the nib has lost essentially all of the two-tone effect. That said, with so severe flaws, it is priced same as excellent example of far more common typical double jewel Major with usual cap-band.

Pen 3346 NB:  Parker Vacumatic Late Streamlined Standard $235 1946 Emerald Pearl Celluloid Exotic Variant Alert
Overall Grade: ExtraFine	Metal: Fine	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Bright Red
Point: Medium (fine side)	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9cm	PRICE: $235
COMMENTS: Vacumatic Standard is catalogued as a lockdown-fill, first generation pen. It is well known that the triple cap-band look survived into the 2nd Generation as the collector-named "Streamlined" Standard, of same shape as the "Long' Major.  Less well known is that while Streamlined Standard seemingly was discontinued late 1941, perhaps early 1942, the triple cap-band crops up again on pens dated (so far) 1945-7 in typical "non-Long" Major (same as Junior) contour.  Most of these scarce variants are found in black, gray and brown. I've handled perhaps four green pens during the last 12 years. One must watch for mixes, with 2nd generation caps on 3rd generation pens. Key is color match (for green and gray; earlier pens had different shade) and cap length.  This one is all there.  Bit of brassing to bottom cap-band. Uncommon variant at modest price bump, as the esoterica thing can be pushed just so far.

Pen 3348 NB:   Parker Vacumatic Debutante 2rd Generation 1940 $110 Golden Pearl  Celluloid
Overall Grade: Fine	Metal: Excellent	Color:  Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc 2-Tone	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Superb
Point: Fine	Imprint: Light	Size: 4 5/8" 12cm	PRICE: $180
COMMENTS: Serviceable double jewel Debutante.  Color  a bit subdued, later plastic filler instead of metal. Clean two tone nib. Light imprint. Clean trim (cap-band will get  a wipe-down to remove tarnish; it is not brassed).

Pen 3203 JB:  Parker Vacumatic  Major 1944 $135   3nd Generation Azure Blue  Celluloid
Overall Grade: Extra Fine	Metal: Exc	Color: Extra Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Exc	clarity: None left
Point: Fine-Med	Imprint: Fine	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $135
COMMENTS: 3rd Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are excellent "first" Vacs for collectors, offering good size at relatively affordable price.  Imprint fully legible but not razor sharp. No transparency left. Barrel color a bit subdued. Nicely writing typical Vac fine-med firm point.

Pen 3212 JB:  Parker Vacumatic Major 3rd Generation, 1945  $165 Golden Pearl  Celluloid. Variant "seamed" plastic. Vacsoterica alert.
Overall Grade: Exc	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Mild  Red
Point: Medium	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9cm	PRICE: $365
COMMENTS: 3rd Generation Major and Junior offer nice combination of good size and reasonable price, making for popular "first Vac" status.  Seamed (wrapped, not typical bored) plastic seems to have been tried in late 1945-e arly 1946. Found sometimes just on cap or just on barrel, this one has both, a nice match. Nib is more plump than the typical Vac nib, pushing full Medium.

Pen 3214 JB:  Parker Vacumatic Major 3rd Generation 1946 $140 Golden Pearl Celluloid
Overall Grade: ExtraFine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: mild Red
Point: Fine	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9cm	PRICE: $140
COMMENTS: 3rd Generation Major and Junior offer nice combination of good size and reasonable price, making for popular "first Vac" status.  Clean trim, color and imprint.  Nice writer.

Pen 3215 JB:  Parker Vacumatic Junior  3rd Generation 1947 $180 (shipping will be delayed a bit) Golden Pearl  Celluloid
Overall Grade: Exc-Nearmint	Metal: Ex-NM	Color:  NM	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Superb
Point: Fine	Imprint: Nearmint	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9cm	PRICE: $180
COMMENTS: 3rd Generation Major and Junior offer nice combination of good size and reasonable price, making for popular "first Vac" status. The differ in trim style and slightly in nib contour.  Nearly mint pen, superb in all respects. Terrific transparency, obscured in the photo, above, by the angle of hte stripes. Beautiful pen

Pen 3217 JB:  Parker Vacumatic Major 3rd Generation 1946  $125 Black  Celluloid
Overall Grade: Exc	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Mod Red-amber
Point: Fine-Med	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9cm	PRICE: $225
COMMENTS: 3rd Generation Major and Junior offer nice combination of good size and reasonable price, making for popular "first Vac" status.   Writes a smooth fine-medium line.

Pen 3079 R Parker Vacumatic Standard $225 1st Generation. Burgundy. 1938
Overall Grade: Very Good	Metal: Fine	Color: VG.	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: NA	threads: Perfect	clarity: NA
Point: Fine-Medium	Imprint: Faint	Size:   5 1/8 " 12.9 cm	PRICE: $225
COMMENTS:  As most of my pendom acqainteaces know, I am fond of high-line 1st Generation Vac which feature lockdown filler, triple cap-bands, and all the luxury features (striped section and end jewels, two tone nib).  The gripping section on Standard is heftier than that found on the later niche-equivalent, Major. This one has no fatal flaws but is well worn and will make a serviceable user.  Cap-bands have moderate (about 30%) brassing.  Clip has high point brassing. One ding on cap-band. Cap is bit lighter in color than barrel, noting the barrel has nice color, better than picture shows.  Imprint is faint. Plastic has light marks.  Nib is an early (1933-ish) "feather-together" Vac nib, which actually is of greater cachet than a 1938-nib, but has  just a bit of the two-tone effect remaining. Nice smooth typical fine-medium Vac point.

Pen 3109 S:  Parker Vacumatic "late" 3rd Generation  1952 Canadian Burgundy Celluloid   $275
Overall Grade: ExtraFine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Fine	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Superb
Point: Fine	Imprint:  Extra Fine	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $275
COMMENTS:  Burgundy Pearl last appeared in USA Parker catalogues in 1940, though 1941 pens are both well known and prevalent, and even rare (I've seen 4 total in ten years hunting) first quarter 1942 single jewel "long" Major and "long" streamlined Standard are known.  Most collectors thus figure their single jewel collections will comprise 5 colors not 6. However, Parker continued Vacumatic production in Canada until 1953, not stopping in 1948 as in the USA. Pens after 1948 of course lack the blue diamond, even in models that once had it. By 1950 Parker created a new 2-digit date code (lopping off the "19" from 195x for the year, stamping the final two digits of the actual year to serve as date code).  Canada in 1950 reintroduced Burgundy. While these late Vacs thus had some style tweaks relative to most 3rd generation pens, it is thus possible to add red Vacs to one's collection of 3rd Gen Vac Major and Debutante (I know of know Maximas produced this late, in any color), by embracing this late Canadian finding. Many late Canadian pens, often returning to the USA from southern continents, are heavily worn and rather sun-fried.  This one is quite nice. Superb color and superb barrel clarity (poorly shown in the pic), the trim is free of brassing.  Imprint well better than average, still  a bit light here and there. Fine Point.

Pen 3084  Parker Vacumatic Standard Pencil Black 1937 $70 Match to First-Generation Pen.
Overall Grade:  Extra Fine	Metal: Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: NA	threads: Mint	clarity: NA
Point:  NA	Imprint:  Exc	Size:  5 " 12.9 cm	PRICE: $70
COMMENTS:  Early pencils are found far less frequently than later generation product.  This 1937 example has the three rings on the cap (not split with barrel) and has the short ferrule, all appropriate for a late first generation pencil. Matches the Vacumatic Standard pen, of which many examples can be found on the website.

Pen 3099 NB Parker Vacumatic  Major 1946 $135 SOLD  3nd Generation Black Celluloid
Overall Grade: Excellent	Metal: Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Exc	clarity: Exc
Point: Fine	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $135
COMMENTS: 3rd Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are excellent "first" Vacs for collectors, offering good size at relatively affordable price.  This one is quite clean with no brassing, with excellent transparency, and with excellent imprint.

Pen 3166 Parker Vacumatic Major $ 195 DETAILS PENDING Golden Pearl Celluloid
Overall Grade:  Extra Fine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Exc
Point: F-M	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9 cm	PRICE: $ 195
COMMENTS:  Double Jewel 2nd Generation saw frantic evolution. This is the final iteration of the 1937-1941 pen.

Pen 3181 -NB  Parker Vacumatic 3rd Gen Major. 1945  $ 145 Emerald Pearl Celluloid. Fine Point
Overall Grade:  Extra Fine	Metal: ExtraFine	Color:  Extra Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Minimal
Point: F	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9 cm	PRICE: $ 145
COMMENTS:  3rd Generation Major and identical size/shape Junior make excellent "first Vacs", offering good size at reasonable price. This one packs a firm smooth fine point nib. Excellent point for daily scribble.

Pen 3052 JB Parker Vacumatic "Long" Major 1938  $185 SOLD  2nd Generation Double Jewel Golden Pearl Celluloid
Overall Grade: ExtraFine	Metal: Fine	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: VG	Threads:  Exc	clarity: VG
Point: Fine-Med	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/4" 13.5 cm	PRICE: $185
COMMENTS: Double Jewel 2nd Generation Vacs were manufactured from mid 1937-1941 and saw a remarkable number of evolutionary tweaks during that time. This one is an early pen with feather clip, double striped jewels, striped gripping section and, of course a two-tone "arrow" nib.  Clean pen with excellent color and trim.  Mid-Late 1938 seems to be when the Major's contour was "grown" by Parker to match that of Slender Maxima. This is about the first of the "long" Majors. Clean color. Excellent imprint. Clean plastic. Bit of high point edge brassing at the ridges on tassie (bottom metal ring) and at top of clip ring. Nib is very smooth and responsive, but has lost most of the original two-tone effect and has a shallow ding at "RK" of "PARKER". I could replace the nib, but figured a somewhat "better" variant that is a great writer with nice eye appeal at reasonable price  might work.

Pen 3012-S  Parker Vacumatic Junior 2nd Gen  1939   $285 JET BLACK SHADOW-WAVE. STAR CLIP. STUNNING BARREL CLARITY
Overall Grade:  Nearmint	Metal: NM	Color:  Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Perfect	clarity: Superb	Personalized "W E M"
Point: M	Imprint: Superb	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $285
COMMENTS:Ahhh.... where to start. I won't repeat all the long explanations. Perhaps time to post some pages.  First, Shadow-Wave WAS made in black. Most seem opaque due to loss of shadow-wave clarity and of course the cap and blind cap ARE opaque. Star Clip was issued on high-line pens before being yanked for the blue diamond... in early 1939. It was "blown out" (as it was never advertised) on junior-line pens in late 1939 and early 1940. Thus we get Shadow-Wave with Star Clip (this one is last quarter 1939 issue). This one is amongst the three most transparent black Wave's I' ve handled in ten years. The yellow clarity showing in the pic underrepresents the degree of clarity found. Trim and imprint are superb.   The pen is personalized "W.E.M." in neat small heat-stamped gold letters. I could have swapped  the barrel or have had  the name heated away, but ultimately I opted not to mess with this one. It is just superb. Smooth medium point.

Pen 3014-S  Parker Vacumatic Junior 2nd Gen  1939   $225 (Ships Late July) Jet-Black Shadow-Wave. Excellent Barrel Clarity
Overall Grade:  Exc	Metal: Exc	Color:  Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Excellent
Point:   (pending)	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $225
COMMENTS: Shadow-Wave WAS made in black. Most seem opaque due to loss of shadow-wave clarity and of course the cap and blind cap ARE opaque. A 2nd Generation Double Jewel pen with of course the post-early-1939 "pseudo-jewel" construction to the blind cap.  Very clean trim and excellent clarity woefully underestimated in the photo above. This one has bright yellow clarity.  I will fit it with a nib shortly, likely a typical fine-medium point.

Pen 2844-R  Parker VACUUM-FILLER  "Middle Size" 1932- 1933 $475 Pre-Vacumatic in trim/color arrangement not done for Vacumatic, proper. Burgundy Pearl
Overall Grade:  Fine	Metal: Fine	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity: Minimal
Point:	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 4 7/8" 12.4cm	PRICE: $475
COMMENTS:  Considered to have been manufactered about 7 months leading into the claimed start for Vacumatic, proper, in July 1933, pens marked "Vacuum-Filler" are high cachet items in the Vacumatic universe (Vacuverse?).  This middle size pen, the first Vacuum-Filler illustrated in ads (March 1933), has what would be high -line features in later Vacumatic pens- striped barrel, striped section and jewels, etc- but is a size which in the Vacumatic would only be found with Junior features (double cap-band, black section and jewels, etc).  Parker seemed to solidify its profile for what would be upper and lower line pens AFTER Vacuum-Filler ended its run.  It off course has the one-piece barrel-section assembly. This pen has nice color and clean clip and cap-bands. Bottom ring (Tassie) at the blind cap has marked brassing.

Pen 2988-S  Parker Vacumatic 1946 Golden Pearl $115  (Ships Late July)
Overall Grade: Fine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Exc	clarity:  Moderate Red	Plastic: Fine
Point:  Fine	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $115
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost.   Nice pen with some light toothmarks in the blind cap.

Pen 2996-S  Parker Vacumatic Major.  3rd Gen. Azure Blue 1944 $155
Overall Grade:  Extra Fine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Perfect	clarity: Exc Yellow	Plastic: extra fine
Point:  F-M	Imprint:  Extra Fine	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $155
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost. Azure Blue is the pen with greatest collector cachet from the regular issue USA 3rd Gen run.  Excellent color with bright yellow (not as ambered as photo suggests) barrel clarity.   Slight surface wear. Nice fine-medium point.

Pen 2997-S  Parker Vacumatic 3rd Gen Golden Pearl  1945  $150 Uncommon Seamed Barrel Plastic found on some late 1945-early 1946 pens
Overall Grade:  Extra Fine.	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Perfect	clarity: minimal red
Point: F	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $150
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost The seamed barrel plastic found on this one is a bit of an esoteric variation from the norm, well known though  to those who know.

Pen 2999-S  Parker Vacumatic 3rd Gen. Golden Pearl 1945 $130
Overall Grade:  ExtraFine	Metal: ExtraFine	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Perfect	clarity: minimal Red
Point: M	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $130
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost. Couple light marks to blind cap.  This one packs a nice  full medium nib.

SOLD Pen 3005 -TB  Parker Vacumatic. 3rd Gen Emerald Pearl  $175 SOLD
Overall Grade:  Exc+	Metal: Exc	Color:  Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Extrafine	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Superb
Point: Med Semi-Flex	Imprint:  Exc+	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $175  SOLD
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost. Superb color, imprint and clarity.

Pen 3010-S  Parker Vacumatic Major. 3rd Gen. Golden Pearl  $175 Pearl Uncommon Seamed Plastic (cap AND barrel) 3rd quarter 1945
Overall Grade:  Extra Fine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Extra Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Perfect	clarity: Moderate Amber
Point: F-M smooth	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $175
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost.  Seamed plastic seems to crop up mid 1945-early 1946, often just on cap or barrel.  Appears to represent a trial with new process to making the rod stock. Uncommon if esoteric variant. Less common still  to find with both parts seamed.  Nice smooth fine-medium point.

Pen 2897-WD Parker Vacumatic 3rd Generation Major 1944   $165 (Shipping Late July) Azure Blue Celluloid
Overall Grade:  Exc	Metal:  Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: perfect	clarity: PENDING
Point:  lush Medium	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 12.8 cm	PRICE: $165
COMMENTS:  Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost. Very clean pen. Wet very smooth medium point.

Pen 2867-M Parker Vacumatic 1st Gen Standard.  1939 $285 SOLD  Burgundy Pearl Celluloid.  Late Production Piece.
Overall Grade:   Fine	Metal: Extra Fine	Color: Extra Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity: ?? Opaque ??
Point:  Medium. "Sproingy"	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/8" 13.0cm	PRICE: $285
COMMENTS:  I'm fond of first generation pens, as the chunkier-vs-later contour yields a larger look and feel (objectively larger gripping section) than later similar niche pens. Early high line Vacs pack the "luxury" features which add charm to the series:  two tone nib, striped end jewels and gripping section, and triple cap-band. Burgundy is considered a "better" color. This one is bit of an odd duck. Late code for 1st Gen and gripping section with greater hour-glassing than earlier product. Nib wit "9" date code to match the 1939 barrel imprint. Barrel appears wholly opaque. Given the known history of 1937-1939 "blowout" of 1932-33 opaque rodstock, this could be a Vac of truly opaque plastic. Otherwise, figure extreme ambring of the transparent zones. Overall condition is fine. Sharp imprint. Nice color to cap and blind cap with bit of ambering to barrel color. Partial brassing to bottom cap-ring. Scattered light marks to plastic. A decent example of a somewhat anomalous Burgundy Pearl Vac.

Pen 2859-M  Parker Vacumatic 2nd Generation Debutante. $150  Double Jewel. Azure Blue Celluloid
Overall Grade:  Exc	Metal: Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity: Slight Ruby
Point:  Fine-Med	Imprint:  Exc	Size:4 5/8" 11.7cm	PRICE: $150
COMMENTS:  Blue is the least common 2nd generation Vac color, having been introduced in mid 1940. 2nd Generation ran 1937-1941, with all other color having been produced  nearly five years. Clean pen with smooth point (note, the nib is monotone, not two tone as would be expected), sharp imprint, nice color, proper metal filler, etc.

Pen 2532 Parker Vacumatic 3rd Generation Major 1944 $150 Nib adjusted by Mike Masuyama Emerald Pearl Celluloid.
Overall Grade: Extra Fine	Metal: Extra Fine	Color: Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Exc	clarity:  Moderate Ruby
Point: Fine-Med	Imprint:  ExtraFine	Size: 5 1/8" 13 cm	PRICE: $150
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost. Smooth wet writer. Touch of brass to edge of cap-band.

Pen 2535 Parker Vacumatic 3rd Generation Major 1944 $160  Golden Pearl Celluloid.
Overall Grade:  Exc	Metal: Exc	Color:  Extra Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Exc	clarity:  Modest amber
Point:  XF	Imprint: Fine	Size:  5 1/8" 13 cm	PRICE: $160
COMMENTS:  Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost. This one packs a really fine point.

Pen 2537 Parker Vacumatic 3rd Generation Major 1944 $160  Emerald  Pearl Celluloid.
Overall Grade:  Exc	Metal: Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity: Modest
Point:  Fine-Med	Imprint:  Exc	Size:  5 1/8" 13 cm	PRICE: $160
COMMENTS:   Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost.

Pen 2540 Parker Vacuamtic 3rd Generation Major  $185  Jet Black Celluloid. 1942. A "First Year" third generation Variant
Overall Grade: Extrafine	Metal: Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads perfect	clarity: Rich Ruby
Point:  Fine-Med  Twotone	Imprint:  ExtraFine	Size: 5 5/16" 13.6cm	PRICE: $185
COMMENTS: Third Generation Vacumatic Major and Junior are popular entry-to-series pens, providing good size at reasonable cost.  Often ignored is the subtle variation from usual seen with the roughly first year of production for the third generation. These pens continued the longer rod stock of the 2nd generation and only slowly gave up the "luxury" features found before.  This one has chromed metal filler unit and had two tone nib. It has the longer early-type rod stock both cap and barrel. Nib packs "2" imprint. Barrel imprint is sound save for "made in USA" and the date code pretty well gone. Clarity, whilst ambered, is well better than the top-lit photo shows.