PA3560 Parker 17 Super, boxed. (Medium)

PA3560 Parker 17 Super, boxed. (Medium)

Date: c1960s

Size: Length Capped - 138mm; Length Posted - 144mm.

This lustrous jet black '17' is in excellent, almost pristine, condition.  I can't find any damage at all on this handsome pen.  There is no plating wear on the rolled gold trim and the pen has a very good glossy appearance.  It is a double jewel model with the wide cap band.  The cap has a top jewel with a rolled gold Parker arrow pocket clip and a rolled gold wide cap lip band.  The barrel end also has a jewel with an undamaged rolled gold surround.  The barrel imprint is lovely and crisp and deep, and very unusually, this pen still retains its factory-applied chalkmark to the side if the barrel which suggests to me that it has probably not been used more than once or twice in its entire life. The clutch ring is in steel.  The barrel unscrews to reveal the Aerometric filling mechanism.  This is also in excellent condition - shiny with no damage.  The original pliglass ink sac is still in lovely condition as well and retains all of its original transparency.  The hooded nib is in 14 carat gold, undamaged, with a medium point.  The original Parker paperboard box is decorated on the outside with polka-dots and inside it has a satin pad.  

I have fully serviced this pen.  The nib writes with a lovely smooth, wet and consistent and very nice medium width line.