For this update, I am happy to say that there is a new contributor -- Howard Edelstein. Those of you who have been interested in the Parker 75s may recognize this name. Howard wrote the first definitive piece on the 75 FPs and its various patterns that appeared as a 2-part article in Pen World back in 1993. It was Howard who provided me with access to the additional Parker documents containing the internal model numbers for the various models and the years of production. These documents were the response from Parker France to Howard's query when gathering facts to write that article. Thank you Howard!
Also, thanks to Mike Lewandowski who runs a pen shop called Signatures of York in England. Mike provided me with a close-up picture of the signed lacque jasper red and a picture of the Flighter variant with the gold band.
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Corrected the omission of the Ecossais page. Previously this model had been incorrectly identified as the 11-band Prince de Galles.
The Spanish Treasure Fleet silver used to make the limited edition pens cannot be identified as to which ship was the source of the silver. It was just one of the 10 that sank. The previous reference to the ship Atocha was incorrect. The Atocha sunk on September 6, 1622.
Added picture that was taken at the signing of the INF Treaty, the leaders the USA and USSR exchanging their Keepsake 75s.
Added pictures of the vermeil Damier and sterling Fougère.
Additional facts gleaned from the Parker documents on the Rainbow, Flighter, Lacque, Vermeil, Ambassador,
Added internal model number designations for many models. It appears that Parker sometimes preceded the model designation with "5-"; for example, the sterling grid FP is known as both #131-100 and 5-131-100 I do not know why they found it necessary to do so.
Table of prices obtained from annual Parker US catalogs & price lists.
Added pictures of a 2 more signed Chinese lacques -- lapis blue and jasper red.
For lacque color comparison found another blue lacque variant, this time with white speckles.
Discovered another unknown pattern, a lined variant, and this one is made out of solid 18K gold! Based on the number of lines around the pen, this is not the Godron or the Milleraies.