"Of course" derives from my experience that all i've found are bandless and from my lack of any recollection for catalogue (or other) images showing other forms. My sample is not large. regards David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Kirchheimer" <kirchh_zoss_list@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "fptalk" <fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pens@xxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:15:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [ZossPens] Happy David. Parker Black Hard Rubber. > found a gem of a Parker Duofold Senior. Black Chased HR (Bandless of > course)... Why "of course"? --Daniel -----Original Message----- From: isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isaacson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:54 PM To: fptalk; pens@xxxxxxxx Subject: [ZossPens] Happy David. Parker Black Hard Rubber. Been quite the weekend here at Raleigh Pen Show. Two of my big finds were in arena not quite my main focus... Parker Black Hard Rubber. First, I found a gem of a Parker Duofold Senior. Black Chased HR (Bandless of course) with very crisp chasing and imprint. A quite uncommon and lovely pen. Interesting finding... it has a blind cap marked 6 1/2 for chased JKS Lucky curve 26 model, same saie blind cap. Second, I stumbled across a Parker Jack Knife Safety Lucky Curve... essentially a bland "sub"-Duofold pen, though not all JKS LC's were cheaper than all DF's. This one a big #25 smooth HR pen in the Short model (a catalogued variant). Probably an early pen, it has the JKS imprint on cap and full number (25) on blind cap. The lucky curve "banner" #5 nib with teardrop breather hole is full flex. More later. Having grand time. regards David