Hello there welcome to Inkcquiring Minds! My name is Doug and I'm back with another pen Resurrection Sunday video. Happy New Year to all of you out there in Inkquiring Minds Land!
Before we were interrupted by the holiday season, I'd done a series of resurrections on Parker Vacumatics. There were three beautiful Stacked Celluloid fountain pens; one in Gold, one in Azure Blue, and one in Burgundy.
I've got several Parker Vacumatics from which to choose to restore. I've got five of them here but I'm not going to restore all five. Some of them have issues that are beyond my control. But let's start with this one and this is what we're going to restore today.
THE PEN
This is a 1944 Parker Vacumatic. It has a nice transparent barrel. Let's continue to triage this fountain pen.
It has the classic Blue Diamond split arrow art deco style clip and there's the imprint with the Dot 4 next to the imprint which says it's 1944 third quarter. I purchased this pen back in July. The feed there has a "T" on it which is interesting. I've done some research on that "T" and the closest I can tell is that there were three letters stamped into the ebonite feeds of the Parker Vacumatics. One was an "A" for the very fine stiff accountant nibs. One was a "W" for wide, which means the channel needed to be wider. I'm assuming that the "T" means thin this is a very fine nib so maybe the feed channel on this is thinner to accommodate the extra fine nib? We'll remove the hardware polish it up and get this pen back in writing condition again.
THOUGHTS
So what are my thoughts on this Resurrection?
Well, this was fairly straightforward because the diaphragm inside this pen was in good shape, there were no major nicks or scratches, and that nib only needed some minor tweaking in terms of alignment and smoothing to make it write beautifully. But, like all resurrections that look like they're going to be fairly easy to start with, these pens always throw me a curve. This is only one of a couple that I've not been able to get that top jewel out of that cap, so it made polishing a lot more difficult, but not impossible.
The good thing was that the clip spun around a little bit so I was able to spin it and polish it. It was never really in the way. But along the way, I discovered that someone had crazy glued that top jewel in and that's why I could never get it out! I've stabilized that clip now and it's not going to move.
This pen is in excellent shape and I've decided to give it up for sale. I'm asking the outrageous price of $150 US for it. Of course, you will pay for your shipping. The good news is Canada Post is back in business again. I'm not going to use them anyway because while the workers were locked out by Canada Post for about a month I found another courier service within Canada that is half the price of Canada Post. I've shipped things to Germany and to the US for half of what I used to charge.
THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD!
If you're interested in purchasing this fountain pen send an email to inkquiringminds@gmail.com with your name and address and I'll get you a quote for shipping and instructions on how to pay my PayPal.
At the beginning of this video, I showed you several Vacumatics that were waiting for restoration. They might have to wait because in just a couple of hours from now I'm going to retrieve two third-generation Parker Vacumatics; one in Emerald Pearl and one in Golden Pearl. One of them has a pretty wonky nib but I got them for a fairly good price here locally.
So, I'll be doing a resurrection of one of those two pens in the next couple of weeks. That's something to look forward to.
Until then I'm hoping you all had a very happy New Year's celebration and are back at the grindstone again.
And that just leaves it for me to say thank you for watching!
And that's all she wrote.
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