David,
I noticed the lucky curve you published yesterday is (or seems to be)
clipless. I recently picked up my first Lucky Curve, equally clean and
bright (but with a severely worn barrel imprint). The clip on mine is
unplated, unmarked steel - I am fairly confident that it's not original, but
is it possible that it was a later addition to a clipless pen?
Regards,
Tristan
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:25 AM, isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was pointed out to me the link failed. Seems an extra letter croppe
dup.
Try this
http://vacumania.com/penteech/parkerluckycurvedchasedplastic850a.jpg
regards
d
Quoting "isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> Amongst the pens I grabbed at the Ohio Pen Show this month was this
> Parker Lucky Curve.
>
> A small pen, its mint condition and original barrel band with
> model number and price tag are not common findings on 1920's Parkers.
>
> What interested me, as I realized I might have handled similar
> before without such awareness, was that the pen appears to be chased
> plastic, rather than the more commonly seen chased hard rubber
> found on some sub-Duofold Lucky Curve pens from the 1920's (such as
> parker DQ).
>
> http://vacumania.com/penteech/parakerluckycurvedchasedplastic850a.jpg
>
> I've handled chased plastic Conklins. Have no recollection of
> seeing such for Waterman, Sheaffer or Wahl. Again, prior to this
> pen I had not seen (or at least not recognized) this finding in any
> Parker.
>
> Given that DQ (iirc) and some other similar chased non-DQ Lucky Curves
> I've handled appear to be rubber, I'm left wondering when Parker
> introduced this chased plastic. Given that by the 1929 catalogue the
> pens had gone streamlined and lost the Lucky Curve imprint (Parker
> Raven being a smooth plastic low end black pen filling- i'm guessing-
> a similar niche to the pen I now discuss) and given that DQ (rubber
> lined pen) was intro'd iirc 1924, we probably see a maximum window of
> 1925-1929, though offhand I do not know if these chased plastic pens
> represent evolution from prior chased rubber pens or were produced in
> parallel.
>
> I brightened one of the two views of the pen to highlight the
> chasing. This one is clean as the proverbial whistle. Pretty pen.
> Again, the link.
>
> http://vacumania.com/penteech/parakerluckycurvedchasedplastic850a.jpg
>
> Input invited.
>
> regards
>
> david
