Oxford Endurable
#1
Posted 09 October 2013 - 10:56 PM
I've just received a pen from Holland with the inscription Oxford Endurable on it. There is no other information. The nib is marked 'Oxford 14ct' and the ball clip is also marked 'Oxford'.
To my eyes it is clearly a Parker product, more specifically a 1930's streamline two ring Duofold Junior, right down to the Christmas tree feed. Apart from the lack of marks the nib and clip looks Parker too.
Does anyone have any information on this brand?
#2
Posted 10 October 2013 - 01:26 AM
John Danza
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#3
Posted 10 October 2013 - 02:07 AM
Now we can speculate !! If the pen originated or sold in the UK Phillips would have the right to the "Oxford" name on a nib at least. So are we looking at a collaboration between Phillips and Parker where Phillips provided the nib and the market and Parker the pen appropriately marked?
Regards
Hugh
#4
Posted 10 October 2013 - 02:54 AM
A couple of nice photo's of the pen would be great, and may give the pieces of evidence the 'brains trust' may notice in the determination of the pen origins.
I like Hugh's thoughts...
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#5
Posted 10 October 2013 - 04:53 PM
and a photo next to a Duofold / Junior Streamlined.
I once researched its origins and there was much speculation of where in Europe it was produced, though no firm answers. I would tend to think that it was not a Parker product, but a
nice copy.
Phil
Edited by philm, 10 October 2013 - 04:53 PM.
#6
Posted 10 October 2013 - 09:58 PM
At 115mm it the same size as a Junior while the clip is the same as on the Lady. Apart from the markings there is nothing on the pen that wasn't produced by Parker and we know that they produced pens for others. The lack of a country of manufacture is intriguing but did anyone else produce the Christmas tree feed?.
Having looked around my conclusion is that it is probably a sub brand of the Danish Penol company. British pens obviously represented quality in Denmark with Big Ben using British patents and other pens such as the 'Sheffield' and I feel it is more than a nice copy. But that is just my opinion!
Edited by Peterg, 15 October 2013 - 01:29 PM.
#7
Posted 11 February 2014 - 02:11 PM
That is the pen Phil, and better photos than I could get.
At 115mm it the same size as a Junior while the clip is the same as on the Lady. Apart from the markings there is nothing on the pen that wasn't produced by Parker and we know that they produced pens for others. The lack of a country of manufacture is intriguing but did anyone else produce the Christmas tree feed?.
Having looked around my conclusion is that it is probably a sub brand of the Danish Penol company. British pens obviously represented quality in Denmark with Big Ben using British patents and other pens such as the 'Sheffield' and I feel it is more than a nice copy. But that is just my opinion!
Oxford Everdurable was made by the German company Siebert & Löwen (Matador) for a danish trading company - it is not connected to Christian Olsen and Penol
Edited by Simplo, 16 February 2014 - 09:22 PM.
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