Product Description
Type Vintage vacumatic filling fountain pen.
Product Name Parker 51 Vacumatic.
Manufacturer and Year Parker, made in USA -- 1948 (The date code is a clear 8 with no dots).
Length 5-1/4".
Filling System Piston/plunger (Vacumatic) system. We have fully restored it and it's working very well.
Color Black body with a 1/10 16k gold filled cap with a pattern of parallel lines up it in groups of 4 and a blue diamond gold filled clip (blue paint is very good). Pearlescent cap jewel.
Nib MEDIUM 14k gold nib. Very smooth. (This will be finer than a modern medium, FYI.)
Condition Excellent + condition. Both barrel and section are shiny with some light scratch marks and a few signs of handwear. The cap has some light scratch marks but no dents or dings. There are tool marks on the tassie, visible in the pictures below. The clip and blue diamond are in excellent condition, though there is plating wear on the sides of the clip. The imprinti is fairly worn, but still readable.