Product Description
Type Restored vintage fountain pen
Product Name Parker 51 Custom Vacumatic ("Custom" refers to the cap design.)
Manufacturer and Year Parker, made in USA -- 1947 (The date code is a clear 8 with no dots).
Length Full size pen, 5-4/16"
Filling System piston/plunger (Vacumatic) filling system. We've restored it with a new diaphragm and it's working well. It has the later vacumatic plastic plunger system which is the correct plunger for the Parker 51 vacumatics.
Color Cedar blue body with a 1/8 14k gold filled cap. (The photos make it look black, but it is definitely the correct dark blue.) The cap has a lined pattern and a pearlescent cap jewel. The clip is in the shape of an arrow (one of the "transitional" clips you see from 1947 and 1948).
Nib FINE to EXTRA FINE gold nib is smooth and very symmetrical.
Condition Excellent + condition. There is some wear on the edges of the clip. The barrel imprint is legible, though there is a scratch in the area of the imprint (se close-up below.) The patterning is quite nice on the cap, with no dents except for a very small one at the top of the cap. It has been fully restored and is working very well.