Product Description
Type Restored vintage fountain pen
Product Name Parker 51 Custom Vacumatic ("Custom" refers to the cap design.)
Manufacturer and Year Parker, made in USA -- 1948 (The date code is a clear 8 with no dots).
Length Full size pen, 5-9/16"
Filling System piston/plunger (Vacumatic) filling system. We've restored it with a new diaphragm and it's working well. It has the later vacumatic plastic plunger system which is the correct plunger for the Parker 51 vacumatics.
Color Cedar Blue body with a 1/8 14k gold filled cap. The cap has a lined pattern and a dark pearlescent cap jewel. The clip is a blue diamond clip.
Nib FINE to EXTRA FINE gold nib is smooth.
Condition Excellent + condition. There are a few tool marks on the section and one pin-sized impression on the cap which is very hard to see and barely qualifies as a dent. The barrel imprint is legible and the patterning is quite nice on the cap. The plunger isn't ambered. It has been fully restored and is working very well.
