PA3718 Parker 61 Custom Fountain Pen and Pencil Set, boxed. (Broad Oblique)

PA3718 Parker 61 Custom Fountain Pen and Pencil Set, boxed. (Broad Oblique)

Date: c1960s

Size: Capped - 135mm; posted - 150mm.

A very nice English grey with rolled gold Custom caps Parker 61 fountain pen and pencil set in their original Parker hardshell case.  Try as I might, I can find no plating wear - the only thing I could find was some scoring to the Teflon coating of the capillary filler inside the pen and a small scratch on the pen at the end of the barrel adjacent to the barrel end tassie - this is likely to have been caused by posting the cap whilst the pen was in use.  The caps are decorated with repeating groups of vertical incised lines.  They both have clear grey top jewels and gold-filled Parker arrow pocket clips.

Fountain Pen

There is a clear grey jewel at the end of the barrel to match the one at the top of the cap.  The barrel unscrews to reveal the capillary filler covered Teflon.  The hood is glossy and also grey and has the inset golden arrow near the point.  The 14 carat hooded nib is in a very unusual broad oblique point. 

Pencil

The cap pulls off to reveal the original and apparently unused pink eraser in its little metal eraser holder.  I have fitted a fresh 0.9mm lead into the mechanism.  It is a propel-repel pencil and works by twisting the cap.  It has a rolled gold point.

Box

A large white polka dot hardshell case with cfeam coloured satin lining.  It has a few grubby marks outside and some little ink staining mainly to the lid lining. 

Both pieces are working perfectly.  The pen writes very smoothly with a good bold width and nice wet line.  As this is an oblique nib it will provide you with some lovely crisp and effortless line width variation as you write.