This resurrected 1960s Parker 45 Set is now for SALE!
Hello there and welcome to Inkquiring Minds! My name is Doug and I'm back with another pen Resurrection Sunday video.
When I was in Ontario for my wife's book launch we hit a favorite antique shop of mine near Niagara on the Lake called Lakeshore Antiques, and I found this beautiful Parker 45 pen and pencil set.
Generally, I look for fountain pens that need resurrection, and this set looked pristine, but I had to have it anyway. So, I cleaned these 45s up, got them writing, and we'll offer them for sale to you inquiring minds out there. I want to show you the process, so let's get started right now.
Here is the Parker 45 pen and pencil set in its original box. Let's take them out and see what they need in terms of restoration—not much, actually. These Parker 45s are very, very simple to fix if they need fixing. They were the first cartridge converter pens made by Parker when they made the Parker cartridge back in 1960.
There are a few abrasions on the body. They need some cleaning the cap is in good shape with no dents just needs some polishing The pencil is in very good shape with no dents in the cap body just needs polishing and it retracts and expels lead. Those are 1 mm leads.
I'll focus on the Parker 45, to begin with here's an original pamphlet from the Parker 45 from the' 60s on how to insert the cartridges and how to use a cartridge converter. Very cool vintage stuff!
Let's take the cap off and we'll see the body. The shell is in good shape and there are some scratches here that are probably deep enough to need micromesh but, these pens, as I said, are really easy to take apart. I put a pen BBS converter in it for now that fits. It will take Parker long and short cartridges or a Parker converter. On the Parker 45s there was no shell to take off the nose own unscrews very very simply he said as he struggled to open it. And that's all one unit.
As we get closer we can see the gold nib and collar unit, and feed assembly. It comes apart easily but if it's difficult for you to take apart, just soak it overnight in a glass of water. Just pull that little collar back and remove the nib. I've been dip-testing this so it's got a little bit of ink on it. There's the little collar and here's the very tiny Parker 14 karat gold made in the USA. It doesn't say whether it's medium or fine but I think this is a medium. It might be a fine; we'll find out when we put it back together again and write with it.
All of this stuff is going to go in the ultrasonic bath for a final rinse to get any old ink out of the inside of the cap, and then we'll come back and polish up the shell and the barrel get and then use some metal polish and some Jewelers polishing cloth on the cap to get it all polished up. Then we'll go after the pencil as well so we'll get the set working like it's new again.
Let's put the whole thing back together again. The nib fits right on that feed perfectly aligned and then you slide the collar on with the wide part to the top. Simply screw the nose cone back in and you'd be hard-pressed to say whether that was New Old Stock or vintage. It is in beautiful condition and there we go. Beautiful! Let's put the converter back in it again. This is a pen BBS converter that fits perfectly and we are ready to Ink this pen up for a writing test.
Writing Test
This is a Parker 45 from about early 60s and here we go the writing sample with this Circa 1960s Parker 45. It's got a medium if not a broad medium 14 karat gold nib and it's very wet and smooth with just a touch of feedback. Let's check this line thickness. It is a 0.6-millimeter line which is a Western medium.
History
The Parker 45 was developed in the 1950s and released in 1960. It was designed by Don Doman, who also designed the Parker 61, Parker VP, Parker T1, and Liquid Lead. He based it on an Eversharp design called the Eversharp 10,000, which was a cartridge pen designed by Eversharp. Parker acquired Eversharp in 1957.
Doman initially kept the metal cap and the arrow clip of the Parker 51 but redesigned the clip to be like the Parker 21 Super that was introduced in 1956. Parker made the Parker 45 model for an astonishing 48 years, making over 75 million of them!
The Parker 45 is sleek, lightweight, and balanced, and it is one of the best, if not THE best posters in Fountain Pen history. It takes modern Parker cartridges, either one long or two short, with one in the pen and one in the barrel as a spare. The small 14-karat gold nib is as smooth as silk and the disassembly of the 45 is the simplest you'll ever see. It can be taken apart completely for cleaning and maintenance and reassembled in seconds with no special tools. This set was cleaned and polished up easily and the set and it looks and writes as if it was brand new.
I'm offering this Parker 45 pen and pencil set for sale for $120 US plus shipping let me know if you're interested by sending me an email at inkquiringminds@gmail.com and I'll let you know how to pay using PayPal and get you a shipping quote.
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