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
