Product Description
Type Modern cartridge/converter filling fountain pen with hand-painted barrel.
Product Name Sonnet - Mark 1
Manufacturer and Year Parker – 1996 (the cap band is marked with the date code Y).
Length 5-1/4"
Filling System Fills via Parker style cartridges or with a converter. A brand new Parker piston converter is installed.
Color This gold and brown mottled finish was called "Chinese Laque Ambre." The trim is 23k gold plated. We've heard that this is one of the hardest to find finishes, and was only available in the first series of Sonnets. The design contains some Chinese characters which are written in red on the cap (see photos). The loose translation we understand had something to do with not being machine-made....
Nib MEDIUM solid 18k nib is very smooth with lovely tipping. It has just slight flex to it, the springyness you find in modern nibs, not real, vintage flex. (Please note that while this nib is from the first Sonnet series, these Chinese lacquer pens originall had two-tone nibs with an extra band on the section.)
Condition New old stock, never used before. There's a little very light microscratching on the cap band from storage and a tiny bit of patina on the cap tassie ring, but otherwise the pen is essentially brand new.
