Well this was quite an interesting month of full of new and interesting information from old and new friends alike. I welcome again another contribution of an engraved Parker 75 model in a floral pattern from the accomplished nib repair expert, John Mottishaw. Also, I heard from Mike Smarinsky, who provided me with details on two prototypes which he owned at one time.
Yet another continuing contributor is Larry Shelton. He provides me with relevant portions of the paper archives that he amassed from copies of the vast PCA library and other sources.
Our first new contributor is Lynn Sorgatz. As a former Parker employee, Lynn was able to provide me a picture of another prototype pattern, this time in vermeil that never made it as a production item. He was also my source for the transparent section and internal collector that was pictured in the section's exploded view.
Another new contributor is Stephen Overbury of Pens Unlimited. He provided me with information and photos of Parker's space pens. If you are a PCA member, you may remember seeing these in Stephen's article that appeared in the Fall 2000 issue of the Pennant magazine.
I want to publicly thank all these fine folks to let me share their information and pen photos with all of you.
As always, I welcome your feedback/criticisms on this site. Or if you are selling your Parker 75s, let me know what you have. I also have some spares 75s for sale; just let me know what you are looking for. Send me email at the LTW@Parker75.com address.
Thanks for visiting!
Components of a section disassembled into its components can be seen in this exploded view.
With the growing number of unknown patterns, this page was reorganized so that pictures you are interested to see may be downloaded faster. Thus the main page for these unknown patterns will have thumbnails with links to view a larger picture and more information about each pattern.
For a similar reason as with the unknown pattern, the prototype page was also reorganized.
For those of you trying to identify your Parker 75 pattern I have created a new page with thumbnails of all the production 75s. Follow the link to see the corresponding details of that pattern.
Speaking of unknown patterns, a sixth one was added, an engraved floral pattern in silverplate.
Photograph of another prototype pattern, this one made of vermeil with rings going down the length of the pen. Unfortunately only the cap was available.
In the limited edition section, we present Parker's pens that commemorated space travel: John Glenn's orbit around the earth and man's reach to the moon.
Bicentennial limited edition in the rarer pewter colonial writing desk package.
When did US production of the Parker 75 end? View this page to find out.
Additional details were added to prototype patterns 4 and 6. One correction is that prototype 4 is made of sterling silver instead of silverplated brass. The other correction is the gold Ambassador prototype #6 was actually 14K not 18K.
Parker advertisement (150K in size) for the Spanish Treasure Fleet was found although publications where this ad appeared are not known.