Hello there! Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug and I'm back with another pen Resurrection Sunday video.
I was going to resurrect this Parker Vacumatic Golden Pearl from 1944 this week, but my replacement diaphragms are stuck in transit in a snowstorm in eastern Ontario.
So we're going to take a look at this Parker 51 Vacumatic. I haven't determined the year yet but it's Dove gray with a gold-filled cap and it has some issues on the cap that I'm interested in seeing whether I can fix.
So let's take a look at this pen and see what needs to be done to get it back to the land of the living. It is a Parker Blue Diamond split Arrow clip. The blue is gone but I can replace it. It has a nice pearlescent top final, a gold-filled cap with lots of wear on it, and it does look like someone has repaired what looks like a hole or several holes.
It's a lot of corrosion in there but that gold patch is fascinating to me. We'll see whether we can repair that or not. I've never done anything like that before. The Dove gray barrel seems to be in really good shape with plenty of wear from over 70 years.
Let's take the cap off and we see the hood and a gold nib. It looks like a good amount of tipping material on that nib. There's lots of old ink but no cracks, and some discoloration from the cap being on it for a long long time.
I can't find any imprints of any significance on that Barrel. Let's take a look with my loup. Okay, it says "Made in Canada" with no numbers. It is very faint. Wait a minute! I see something here, a dot 6 dot. That means this is 1946 second quarter.
The Vacumatic pump feels like there's no diaphragm in there at all. I do have diaphragms for the Parker 51 but I don't have the ones for the Parker Vacumatic right now. The Vacumatic standard size pens take standard size Vacumatic diaphragms. I'm out of those. But the Parker 51s take the debutant size diaphragms and I have several of those.
So we'll have to see whether we can take this pen apart. I'm going to try to take that Vac pump out and see whether there are any remnants of diaphragm left in there. I'm going to have to heat that hood off to get at that nib, pull it, and get a date code.
THOUGHTS
This is a beautiful Resurrection. The pen works wonderfully. It's in this lovely Dove Grey color that you don't see often. It has a beautiful gold cap with a split Arrow clip and the blue diamond. It is a Vacumatic filler and takes 1.5 ml of ink; more than some big piston fillers!
The Parker 51 is one of the best posting fountain pens in the world in history. It is beautifully balanced in the hand and has some interesting line variation because of the shape of that nib. I thought the nib might be thicker than it is but that is indeed a fine nib. I got the chip out of the end of the hooded section and you can't even see where it was.
I did this Resurrection because I ran out of supplies for doing the Parker Vacumatic Golden Pearl from 1944. Just as I was filming this, my supplies came in, and here are my three standard-size Vacumatic diaphragms.
So the next fountain pen resurrection might be this one, or it might be this Silver Pearl. So which fountain pen do you think I should do next; the Silver Pearl or the Golden Pearl? Let me know in the comments below.
This pen writes beautifully, but I'm not going to keep it. It writes a bit fine for me. Otherwise, it's just a lovely writer. But because it has blemishes on it and still some vintage wear marks on that cap, and everything else is working perfectly, I'm going to sell it for $140 US plus shipping.
THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD!
If you're interested in purchasing this pen let me know by emailing me at inkquiringminds@gmail.com with your name and your address I'll get you a shipping quote.
The first person that pays for it, gets it. You members are going to get a leg up because you're going to see this video early!
And that just leaves it for me to say thank you for watching.
And that's all she wrote!
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