The
pens below are from Vacumania's 2008
December Update:
Holiday Parker
"51" Insanity.
I
suspect
that in the 30 or so years of existence
of the organized hobby of collectable
pendom (using the publication of Cliff
Lawrence's first book for our starting
point), this update constitutes
the largest single retail offering of
Parker "51" fountain pens. No
auction, no catalogue, no website has
had so many. Of course... i could be
wrong ;)
Below take a gander at about 230 Parker
"51" fountain pens. A few
have sold or are on-hold from want
lists, but most are up for grabs. A few
will be available for shipping in
January '09, as I found couple minor
tweaks still to be done.
Included find:
- A gold Empire cap.
- Scarce red-band pens in three colors
- ALL the catalogued colors
- A few uncatalogued colors
- 49 double jewel pens (yes, 49)
- First Year pens
- A Mark-III Flighter
- 19 Plums
- Mint, boxed, stickered pens and sets.
- And, of course, much much more
Thanks to the pen
restorers:
I collect pens. I have them restored by the
pro restorers. As fate and timing would have
it, I was lucky to have a number of the pens below
restored by Joel Hamilton, Ron Meloche and Danny
Fudge. Grand work as always. But, I do owe a special note
to Sean Gosse of Toronto, who on short notice and
trying circumstances was able to get 60 or so of
these up and running. And, finally, this
special offering could not have fallen in place
without Ron Zorn's help. Friend, neighbor and well
respected restorer of old pens, Ron-- in order
to accomodate a large portion of these pens,
which could have set his usual queue back by a
month-- let me drop by on multiple evenings so
he could do overtime to get many of these done,
while still providing timely service to...
everyone else. If you happen to have pens
needing repair, do give these guys a yell. You won't
regret it.
Will I ever do this
again?
Doubt it, at least not to this scale for "51"
alone. A fun but exhausting project.
After this, back to the usual 100-pen mixed
updates.
Please be tolerant
of typos:
Even if i priced the Empire at $25 by mistake, final
call on prices is mine. No malice intended with
prices, but errors happen. Thanks. Feel free to drop
me a note with questions.
-David Isaacson
isaacson@frontiernet.net
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