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Parker Pen Company

American fountain pen maker, best known for the Duofold and 51.

Kind: pen manufacturer
Country: United States
Active: 1888 – present

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Batch1928 44

fountain pens

Parker 51

from 1941

The Parker 51 is a fountain pen developed by the Parker Pen Company, an American writing instrument manufacturer founded in Janesville, Wisconsin. Development of the pen concluded in 1939 to mark the firm's fifty-first anniversary, which inspired its numerical designation and avoided translation difficulties across…

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