For your consideration, we are offering for sale this Gorgeous Restored 1943 Parker Duofold Senior Fountain Pen in the Blue-Gray Celluloid. This fountain pen has been thoroughly taken apart, cleaned, put back together and now is in wonderful writing condition.
I have ultrasonically cleaned the NIB, feed, section, breather tube, and barrel. Replaced the old diaphragm with a new, properly sized one. Hand polished the Gold Filled Blue Diamond Clip, Chevron Cap Banding and 14K Gold NIB. I have also cleaned, buffed, polished, and waxed the barrel, cap, and blind cap to bring back the vibrancy and to protect the celluloid of the fountain pen.
This fountain pen cap and barrel are in magnificent condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs with the cap always securing tightly to the barrel. The cap has the Blue Diamond Gold Filled clip with no brassing. The Gold Filled Chevron Cap Band displays a wonderful gold filled color, also, with no brassing. The top jewel is black and polished to a great shine The barrel is clearly stamped with, "PARKER DUOFOLD MADE IN U.S.A. with date code 3 (for 1943) in the third quarter". The transparency of the barrel is great as one can easily see through it with minor ambering. The blind cap securely fits. There are no monograms or personalizations on the cap or barrel. This Senior Parker Duofold Fountain Pen measures 5 3/8" in length capped and 6 1/8" posted.
The Vacumatic Fill System works great, typically in my tests with water about 7 to 9 presses and it will fill full. This Vacumatic Filling unit is in excellent condition; it has been greased and now operates smoothly and works flawlessly.
This Parker Duofold has the highly sought after 14K 2-Tone "V" NIB. The 2-Tone Platinum Masking is nearly all intact - it is a real treat to find them with the 2-tone effect, normally the platinum masking is worn away. The actual writing portion (iridium) of the 14K Parker "V" NIB has a fine point measuring roughly .52mm when measured with digital calipers. When writing a sample, the NIB writes with a fine to medium stroke line. The writing sample provided in the image has a fine stroke measuring at .53mm and can flex to a medium stroke of roughly .77mm with medium to firm pressure when measuring with digital calipers. The writing sample was done with the actual pen in the images that are listed for sale. The writing sample was used by dipping the NIB in Parker Quink Blue Ink.
Any specks of white in the images are from the cotton that I used to clean the barrel and cap.
This is a gorgeous Senior Parker Duofold Fountain Pen in the Blue-Gray Celluloid that is increasingly harder and harder to acquire, especially in this condition. I would grade this Parker Striped Duofold in Excellent Condition. Certainly, a collector grade writing instrument and is ready to write or just add to writing arsenal collection.