Pen 2340 Parker Modern Duofold $SOLD George Bush Vice Presidential Inaugural Pen.
Overall Grade:  NM	Metal: NM	Color:  Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Nearmint	Threads perfect	clarity:    NA
Point:   Med	Imprint:  Exc	Size:	PRICE: $SOLD
COMMENTS:   Serious special edition pen, part of the Erano-Isaacson hoard (not yet advertised here... but soon) acquired from a retired  regional distributor some months back

Pen 1638 Parker Duofold 1941 Button-Fill. Dusty Red Celluloid  $235 SOLD large size "Jeweler's style" cap-band. Sweet
Overall Grade: Exc	Metal: Exc	Color:  Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity:    Exc
Point:  F-Med Semi-flex	Imprint:  perfect	Size: 5 1/8"	PRICE: $235
COMMENTS:  This Vac Quack is fond of striped 1940's Duofolds, having dozens in the collection. Button Fill pens less often can be offered for sale and the vast majority of those are the catalogued smooth-band variety. The factory-issue "Jeweler's" cap-band pens are well less common and represent a serious bump in cachet. Available in four colors and two sizes, one could hunt 8 of these. I've got 'em all. This one is the larger of the two sizes, in Dusty Red celluloid. Very clean pen with minimal  trim speckling here n' there.

Pen 1777 Parker Striped Duofold Senior. Dusty Rose Celluloid 2nd Generation. Vacumatic Fill   $220 SOLD
Overall Grade: Extra Fine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc V-nib	Threads:  perfect	clarity:    nope
Point:  Fine	Imprint:  VG	Size: 5 3/8"	PRICE: $220
COMMENTS:   This Senior represents the  largest model of striped duofold. The series ran from 1940-1948. As large as a Slender Maxima Parker  Vacumatic,  it employs the Vac's filling system.  The Duofold is a high quality pen which  features the marbled-striped celluloid on a pen which essentially is a Parker Vacumatic. More than 100 variants can be identified.  Vacumania actively collects the striped Duofold series. This one has nice color, decent imprint, smooth fine nib and not much barel clarity

Pen 1766 Parker "$3.75 Pen" 1933  Larger Model 1933 SOLD Burgundy Pearl Celluloid  $300 A so-called "Thrift Time Pen"
Overall Grade: Extra Fine	Metal: Specks brass on clip	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity:    NA
Point:  Medium Semi-Flex	Imprint:  Fine	Size: 5 1/8"	PRICE: $300
COMMENTS:  Lumped into the garbage-can term "Thrift Time Pen", the revelation of a Dec 1933 Parkergram allowed specific description of this model for the first time.  Available in four colors and two sizes with the smaller size found with clip or ring, one can collect 12 catalogue described variants. Hefty pens, the stepped clip ties to the 1934 Type II Parker Parkette and evokes pens by Eclipse and Monroe, amongst others. The matching end-pieces add charm. Often found discolored, crazed or quite worn, this one lacks those problems. The only negative are a few specks of brassing on the clip.   Eye-popping color

Pen 2103 Parker Pastel Moire Set. Turquoise $250 SOLD Flex nib
Overall Grade: Extra Fine	Metal: Exc	Color:  Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity:    NA
Point:   Fine Flex	Imprint:  VG	Size: 4 3/8" 11,1cm	PRICE: $250
COMMENTS:   Parker's pastel pens from the late 1920's can be found in a variety of evolutionary styles in both pure and moire patterns. This one is a ratherrrr nice example. Pen has excellent color, minimal trim wear, but does show some central lightness of the imprint. Pencil is excellent.  A nice flexible nib on the pen only enhances the package.

Pen 2393 Parker Duofold (English) 1950's $75 SOLD Stubby Senior or somesuch. Jet Black
Overall Grade:  G-VG	Metal: VG	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity:  None
Point:   M-B	Imprint:  About GOne	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9cm	PRICE: $75
COMMENTS:   A plump vintage Duofold, this one has the wide "maxima" cap-band, but is stubby in contour. A squat chunky pen. Aerometric self-filler. This english pen is about the size of  a Vacumatic Major.   It packs a smooth broad point. Obviously, the pen has been personalized.  This is the "affordable user" from the bunch. Perhaps i shall plonk it into "Vacumania's Basement" should life give me the couple hours free to address that orphan page. Nice nib.

Pen 2246F Parker 1940's "Striped" Duofold. Button Fill. 1942  $165 SOLD Blue/Gray Celluloid . Smooth Fine Point. Uncatalogued Variant
Overall Grade:  Extra Fine	Metal: Extra Fine	Color:  Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  perfect	clarity:    NA
Point: Smooth Fine Firm	Imprint:  Exc	Size: 5 1/4" 13.2cm	PRICE: $165 SOLD
COMMENTS:  Striped Duofold was the first Parker Series available with two different self-filling systems, either vac-fill or button-fill. This one (as with all black blind-cap DF's) is a button filler.  Button-fill DF's were catalogued with medium smooth cap-band only, but uncatalogued pens crop up with the so-called "Jeweler's" lined band and- in blue/gray only- twith the triple thin band.  No one seems to know why this band appeared only on blue pens.  This one has couple light marks to plastic and capbands. Unbrassed.

Pen 2319 Parker Lucky Curve Pastel  $175 SOLD Magenta Moire Flat Top. 1928-ish
Overall Grade:  Fine	Metal: ExtraFine	Color:  Extra Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc*	Threads:  perfect	clarity:    NA
Point:   Fine	Imprint:  Extra Fine	Size:4 1/2" 11..2cm	PRICE: $175
COMMENTS:  These slender pens were offered in a radical colors spread and made the jump to the streamlined era at Parker. A nice example. Good color, though ont perfect. The fine point Parker Pen  nib is from the mid 1930's. Trim clean with bit of brassing at top of clip as well as the "usual" clip-ball area. Top end piec shows light definition of the knurling.

Pen 2355 Parker Lucky Curve 24 1/2  $145 SOLD Early 1920's Pen with Duofold-esque styling
Overall Grade: VG	Metal: VG	Color:  Oxidation noted	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc+	Threads:  perfect	clarity:    NA
Point:   Medium FLEX	Imprint:  Weak	Size: 5 3/8" 13.6cm	PRICE: $145
COMMENTS:  About the  length of a Duofold Senior, this chased hard rubber, bandless, white-trimmed pen features a #4 Parker Lucky Curve nib. The pen is intact and sound, but shows obvious wear. The hard rubber has olived (I'm not a big fan of recoloring), the white trim still shows some original lustre, but has speckling, brassing, as shown.  Imprint is light and is centrally gone.  Still, a sweet flex Medium point clean Lucky Curve #4, which likely retails not far from the cost of the complete restored pen.

Pen 2363M Parker 22 1/2 Ringtop $185 SOLD Black Chased HR. Near Mint. Superb. Flex nib
Overall Grade: NM	Metal: Exc	Color:  NM	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads:  Perfect	clarity:    NA
Point:   Fine Flex	Imprint:  NM	Size: 4 3/4" 12cm	PRICE: $185
COMMENTS:  The Lucky Curve (Jack Knife Safety imprints early on) preceded and overlapped the Duofold, whose basic looks is shared between the two series.  Often, but not always, underpricing the Duofold, the Lucky Curve JKS series presented a wide variety of sizes and of trim configurations.  This one... pops. Superb original color and chasing, the  imprint is razor sharp (poorly shown in the diffuse-light photo abrove).  This is the cleanest chased (which is what adds the "1/2" to the model number) BHR Lucky Curve i've owned.  If you've looked at worn out black hard rubber pens and wondered why folks rushed to buy them back in the day (not that there was much alternative), this is the sort of pen that makes the aesthetic appeal quite clear.  Flex nib does not hurt. Restored and ready to write.