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Close-up of the barrel end |
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Close-up of the cap |
No production 75 I know has a pattern similar to this, with the converging groups of lines that appears on both the cap and barrel.
When I saw a Parker 51 model with this exact pattern on its cap (the barrel was in plastic), I wrote to Parker historian and expert L. Michael Fultz who responded as follows:
"In the Parker 51 it was called Converging Lines and was done on a Gorton engraving machine using a diamond burnisher rather than a conventional cutter. ... I have never seen this pattern applied to a 75."
Here is a picture of my friend's Parker 51 with a close-up of the cap.
