Hello there! Welcome to my channel. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Inkquiring Minds Pen Resurrection Sunday video.
Last week, on Sunday, I resurrected a Parker 51, which sold very quickly! Thank you, Enzo!
I asked you guys whether you wanted to see this Parker Vacumatic Golden Pearl or this Parker Vacumatic Silver Pearl to be the next resurrection. Well, the ayes have it! The gold is going to wait, and we're going to resurrect this Silver Pearl.
Let's get to it! Let's triage this pen and see what it needs to survive!
The silver Pearl Vacumatic looks so black in the photographs that you couldn't tell it was silver. It must have been the photography because it looked pretty black. This is not too bad. It's covered in grime, and the silver needs polishing.
This one's made in Canada, but the nib should have a date code. The nib doesn't look as bad as it did in the photographs. It's fairly dingy, but that will shine up quite nicely. No date code is visible from here. The Registered Trademark is visible at the base. The feed looks in good shape.
Let's take a look at the nib tines. They're a little bit corroded and a little bit asymmetrical, but they're nothing I can't work with. That section won't come off.
Let's check the pump out. That's even stuck in there. It is probably a desiccated sack that's keeping that from traveling, but it looks like this barrel might be transparent once it's cleaned up.
The top final is in good shape, and that black plastic jewel and clip are solid. This is a non-Blue Diamond clip. It is a split arrow with Parker down the center, silver-plated, has two silver-plated cap bands, and the section is in good shape.
I don't see any major scratches, just a lot of grime and no teeth marks, so I'm expecting that this is going to clean up quite nicely.
I watch for these kinds of pens on eBay that look grimy and dingy. People don't want to bid on them because they look awful, and they're not functioning. They're not restored at all. So that's right up my alley because I can get them fairly inexpensively and fix them up.
We'll get that section off and pull that nib and feed out and see whether there's a date code. It's a third-generation Parker Vacumatic, so that means that this is from the mid-40s. I would guess maybe 1945 to 1948 when the Vacumatic was discontinued.
But Vacumatics continued to be made in Canada well after that into the 50s, so it's hard to tell exactly when this might have been built, except for there might be a date code on the nib.
THOUGHTS
So what are my thoughts about this Resurrection?
This one was very satisfying. It was all grimy and grungy. Look how beautifully pearlescent it is now - especially the silver hardware!
This is a model that doesn't have the blue diamond on it and has two cap bands. These were the more budget-friendly versions. The Vacumatics that had the blue diamond and the full cap band with the chevrons on it were the top-of-the-line Vacumatics at the time.
I'm particularly pleased with how this nib turned out. It is a fine nib, but it writes a fairly thick fine line. It's between a 0.5mm, which is fine, and a 0.6mm, which is medium. It's very juicy, indeed!
This is a lovely writer. It is completely restored and ready for everyday use. It did throw me a few curves with that pump not working properly. It took me a few adjustments on the diaphragm to get it working properly. The section was a bear to get out because someone had shellacked it shut! It's not shellacked anymore!
It's got some good amount of silicone oil on there now, but those threads on the Parker Vacumatics are so fine, and there's so many of them that these pens don't leak even without silicone grease on them. With the silicone grease, it makes it easier to remove that section to clean out your pen by using a syringe or a bulb syringe.
THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD!
If you're interested in purchasing this fountain pen, I'm selling it for $180 US plus shipping. Shipping to contiguous North America is roughly about $10 US.
That just leaves it for me to say thank you for watching.
And that's all she wrote.
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