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[david i]

Have impression the rounded top pens are slightly later. Now to figure how to back that claim...

regards

david

[Rick Krantz]

I dunno, but I will admit, I never really cared for true blue's until the original post in this thread, that middle example, the pattern is hypnotic, wow, freaking wow. Nice pen.

[david i]

This one, not being bandless, perhaps is a smidge less interesting than the pen seen from the Wisconsin library display last page, but it is still lofty Zaner-Bloser edition of the Parker True Blue.

The most valuable plastic sub-Duofold of the twenty's and thirties?

regards

David

[John Jenkins]

This one, not being bandless, perhaps is a smidge less interesting than the pen seen from the Wisconsin library display last page, but it is still lofty Zaner-Bloser edition of the Parker True Blue.

The most valuable plastic sub-Duofold of the twenty's and thirties?

regards

David

Hard to know the value since they appear so infrequently, but surely in the top strata. I'd lump it in with some of the very hard to find Moderne & Premier colors. I recall a dog eared red Moderne (US version) at the Ohio show auction going for $900 some four or five years ago. On any given day......
JJ

[John Danza]

This one, not being bandless, perhaps is a smidge less interesting than the pen seen from the Wisconsin library display last page, but it is still lofty Zaner-Bloser edition of the Parker True Blue.

The most valuable plastic sub-Duofold of the twenty's and thirties?

Hard to know the value since they appear so infrequently, but surely in the top strata. I'd lump it in with some of the very hard to find Moderne & Premier colors. I recall a dog eared red Moderne (US version) at the Ohio show auction going for $900 some four or five years ago. On any given day......
JJ

My thoughts exactly John. I think the Zaner-Bloser Parkers, regardless of color, are pretty close to the top of the list. Of all the Z-B Parkers that pop up, they seem to pop up most often in the True Blue plastic. I've seen a black one before, but only one.

I was thinking of that red Moderne as well from a price perspective. There was one on ebay for years where the seller wanted $900 as a BIN.