PA3795 Parker Vacumatic Major Fountain Pen and Pencil Set. (Semi-Flexible Extra-Fine)

PA3795 Parker Vacumatic Major Fountain Pen and Pencil Set. (Semi-Flexible Extra-Fine)

Date: c1953

Size: Length - 133mm capped; 155mm posted.

A very beautiful azure blue striated Parker Vac Mazor set.  Both pen and pencil are in excellent condition; I really can't see any damage on either piece! The fountain pen is date-coded to 1953 so it is a very late production Canadian pen.  The caps have the distinctive "split arrow" gold filled Parker pocket clips which are surmounted by black "jewels".  Around the cap lips is a wide "deco" engraved gold filled band.  

Fountain Pen

The imprint in the barrel is lovely and deep and crisp and includes the date code for 1953.  Along with its matching pencil, the pen was manufactured in Canada.  The blind cap at the end of the barrel unscrews to give access to the amber coloured plastic filling plunger.  When you hold the barrel up to the light, the transparency through the forward part is excellent with just very minor ambering (you always seem to get this with the celluloid Vacumatic pens - it is just a sign of age).  The lovely 14-carat gold Vacumatic nib appears to be in an extra-fine point.  

Pencil.

Again, a lovely glossy example.  The cap pulls off to reveal the eraser socket, but the original eraser has long gone.  This is a propel-repel pencil that works by twisting the cap.  I have fitted a fresh 0.9mm lead into the mechanism and it is all ready to go.  

I have fully serviced this set. The pen fills effortlessly with a very good ink capacity.  The nib writes very smoothly with a great, wet and consistent medium width line.  It is a lovely soft nib, I would classify it as semi-flexible, and it will provide for some beautiful line width variation from an extra-fine to a good medium width.  

A lovely example with, unusually, its matching pencil.