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[pen-deco]

I wanted to share this pen because I'd love to learn more about early Parkers. Is it relevant that this pen isn't an eye dropper, though it has a slip cap?

 

Here's a Parker #20 Self Filler in mottled red hard rubber. I thought it was pretty unique to see that this pen had a slip cap with a button filler. I am so used to seeing slip caps on EDs. Would you  guys agree that Parker ended the MRHR and Slip-caps around the same time that they introduced Button Fillers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[John Danza]

Parker offered their button filling mechanism on both their safety pens (Jack Knife Safety) and their older, eyedropper pens in the early-to-mid teens. They don't show up that often but I wouldn't call them scarce. I've got three or four of them, in different model sizes.

 

As for RMHR, that's harder to gauge as they didn't really advertise the RMHR or RHR much, with the RHR really being trumpted only with the early Red Giant until the Duofold came along in 1921. But RMHR isn't that hard to find in the slipcap pens going back to pre-1900, but certainly the BHR pens is the common variety. RMHR was used in the Jack Knife Safety series but is pretty scarce. RHR is scarce in both the slipcap and Jack Knife Safety models.

 

Nice pen BTW!