A fellow contacted me two days before I left Janesville for the LA Pen show, from which in turn I traveled to Florida to visit family for a week of vacation before returning home to NYC, the town that more or less passes as my home base. He had collected Parker pens for a few years about 10 years ago, but long out of the hobby and with the pens merely rolling about in a drawer all this time, he decided it was time to let them go. He lived about an hour from Janeville, so I invited him to meet me at the restaurant now familiar with pen show and tell, as our Janesville Pen Club meets there every so often. We had dinner. I spent an hour reviewing the pens. A fair bunch had issues, needing beyond simple restoration a nib retipping or two, replacement pumps and so forth. I bough the collection 15 hours or so before flying out to LA. Fun stuff.
Here's a link to my prior Janesville find (images still not fully posted) October 2013 Janesville Oct 2013 Pen Hoard Link
The tragedy in the bunch was an otherwise near-mint Parker Vacumatic Golden Web, made in Canada, with marking for importation by France and including the appropriate only-for-France 18k gold Vac nib. He had given it to his daughter and she accidentally let the puppy get it. The cap is thoroughly chewed. I will try some heat, but I fear the cap will never be normal. Even for me this is not an easy cap to find.
A couple pens are missing, having been sold at the LA Show, a modern Duofold Centennial in black-pearl. The Sheaffers don't belong. I had run out of storage at LA before shooting this folder on the fly.
Yes, the five pens at top left are Vacumatic Oversize/Maxima. One has a double broad stub nib.
The OS Wahl set is intact (clip hiding in pic) though somewhat discolored.
One pen from this bunch goes into my personal collection. Kudos if you can figure out which.
One hour. A pile of pens. Happy David.
regards
-d
Congrats, again!
