THIS PEN HAS SOLD!
Hello there! Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video.
Last week on Pen Resurrection Sunday, I restored an enigmatic 1959 Parker Vacumatic in Emerald Pearl Celluloid. The pen was made in the USA.
This was weird because Parker USA, from Jamesville, Wisconsin, stopped making the Parker Vacumatic model in 1948. I was as doing a lot of speculation about what the provenance of the 1959 pens was.
I bought both the Emerald Pearl and the Golden Pearl at the same time from the same seller on New Year's Eve. The gentleman I purchased both pens from said he had bought them at an estate sale. With both pens being almost identical other than the color, I figured they were probably purchased by the same person.
I inquired on the Fountain Pen Network forum to see whether anybody else had seen a 1959 made-in-the-USA Parker Vacumatic. No one has. We've seen them in Canada, we've seen them from the UK, and we've seen them from Australia, but not from the US.
Within minutes of that video going out to members only, the pen sold, and there's a lot of interest in this one as well. I'm going to get after this one.
I'll show you the unboxing here right now so you'll see what the state of the pen was when I got it on New Year's Eve.
THOUGHTS
So what do I think about this pen Resurrection?
This one was a lot easier than the previous green one. It came up just beautifully! I think Golden Pearl is one of my favorites other than the Azure Blue Pearl.
And about these 1959 Parker Vacumatics made in the USA, I still haven't received a definitive answer about how these 1959 Parker Vacumatics USA-built pens actually exist.
I've got a hunch. Since the Emerald Pearl and this Golden Pearl were purchased together from an estate sale, I'm assuming that both pens belong to the same person and were purchased in Canada. I'm further speculating that because Canada continued to make the Parker Vacumatic well into the 1950s, and most of those had been made in Canada with the date code stamped into it, this USA-stamped barrel and cap were actually from the United States but the extra stock was sent sometime in the 50s to the Canadian plant for them to put together and sell to Canadian retailers and it was stamped 1959 in Canada.
I don't have any empirical evidence to corroborate my opinion here but this shape of section is very familiar to me. I've seen Canadian-made Parker pens with this exact-shaped section. That just further fuels my speculation that the cap and the barrel for this pen came from the United States as New Old Stock and the Canadian plant put these together for sale in Canada. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it until someone proves me different.
As to the pen itself; no major flaws on it so it polished up beautifully and that nib is just gorgeous. It only needed some minor tweaking and minor smoothing and now is writing like a champ. It is a very fine nib. For those of you who enjoy extra fine writers, this might be a pen for you.
But you'll have to move quickly because the previous one was only a minute and a half before that pen was sold. Even if you're a member,and you see this video, you're going to have to hop on it quickly because I am putting this pen up for sale.
I paid more for this one than I paid for the Emerald Pearl, so it's going to be a little bit more expensive to cover that cost.
I'm pricing this pen at $200 us plus shipping. THIS PEN HAS SOLD!
And that just leaves it for me to say thank you for watching, and that's all she wrote!
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