Vintage fountain pen

Parker 61 was unlike any other pen at that time or even to this day. It had a different way of filling it with ink. Instead of using a plunger, pump, syringe or any mechanical method, the 61 relied on its capillary ink filling system where you immerse the unscrewed rear end of the pen into a bottle of ink and it will fill up via absorbtion and ink will go.  This is a nice Parker 61 Rainbow. It is the top of the range Heirloom pens sported a rainbow cap made from alternate layers of different colours of gold. The effect is very striking, and the pens are much less common than the standard Classic and Custom pens. The Heirloom caps were discontinued in 1968 due to high production costs and high reject rates. the telfon tube. Much like a piece of cloth which absorbs liquid, this does the same. There are only two models with the Rainbow effect namely this Parker 61 and Parker 75.

I have always wanted to find the German made limited edition Parker Wood pen. In 1980 Parker in Germany produced a large (143 mm) wood limited edition pen with a huge stylised clip. There were eight different wood finishes offered and they were sold in numbered boxes made from the same wood as the pens. There were meant to be made 2 000 numbered pens of each wood, but there seems to have been objections from Parker in the US and production was haltered, so no-one really knows how many pens were shipped. Also some were clearly shipped without the number on the pens, or in the boxes. The cap had a very large gold coloured, wooden clip in the shape of an arrow that protruded from the top of the cap.  Perhaps one of the strangest designs of a Parker pen, some finishes are considered very rare. This jumbo pen reminds me of the early Parker Giant.  As a fountain pen collector, I really like the fountain pen design as it really aimed to break away from the norm like the early Parker Days with