Hello from Germany
#1
Posted 10 May 2013 - 09:18 AM
Mark here from Frankfurt, more a user than a collector at the moment, also developing an ink addiction.
I have a Parker 51 which I was given new as a schoolboy in the 70s and am horrified to hear it now described as a "vintage pen" - does that make me a vintage person? Turns out to be a lousy pen for messing around with different inks because it takes so long to flush the feed out. Still writes like a dream though.
I also have a "LeBoeuf" of which there are some pictures in my Gallery. I'll open a new thread about that though.
Looking forward to talking to you all
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Mark
#2
Posted 10 May 2013 - 09:28 AM
Hi everyone,
Mark here from Frankfurt, more a user than a collector at the moment, also developing an ink addiction.
I have a Parker 51 which I was given new as a schoolboy in the 70s and am horrified to hear it now described as a "vintage pen" - does that make me a vintage person? Turns out to be a lousy pen for messing around with different inks because it takes so long to flush the feed out. Still writes like a dream though.
I also have a "LeBoeuf" of which there are some pictures in my Gallery. I'll open a new thread about that though.
Looking forward to talking to you all
--
Mark
Welcome
The running joke (or not a joke?)... the definition of a "vintage" pen: "Any pen that was around before I started using pens..."
regards
david
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#4
Posted 10 May 2013 - 10:24 PM
You will find the folks here on the FP Board really nice, and quite knowledgeable when it comes to the finer points of collecting, identifying, and valuation.
Don't be afraid to ask questions or have any fear any sort of retribution, or to be steered in the wrong direction; you will, for sure, get misguided suggestions and information on that "other" forum, but not here!
If there is something I can do for you nib wise, please let me know, I am at your service!
Greg Minuskin
greg@gregminuskin.com
www.gregminuskin.com
Edited by Greg Minuskin, 10 May 2013 - 10:31 PM.
#6
Posted 16 May 2013 - 06:01 PM
However, I lean toward thinking that "vintage" is any pen designed to be repaired by a specialist, in particular by someone in a pen company's service center. That puts vintage at about 1960, and convinces me that the Parker 45 was one of the first modern pens: all components meant to unscrew for replacement, cartridge/converter.
This would make your P51 Mark III a vintage pen, and a treasure if you have owned it from the beginning. It would make modern piston-fillers mostly non-vintage, because their companies make cartridge / converter pens...a little fuzzy, but life is fuzzy.
#7
Posted 18 May 2013 - 08:17 PM
Only problem is, the clip is broken and various searches and enquiries have turned up no replacement so far.
Any ideas?
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