Richard Nixon "Bill Signer" Parker pen with legislative document in shadowbox
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
May 11, 1973
This collectible shadowbox display features a "Bill Signer" Parker pen used by President Richard Nixon to sign an Act of the 93rd Congress on May 11, 1973. The Act amended the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
The fountain pen, measuring 5.25 inches in length, features a silver facsimile signature of the President. The presentation includes the pen housed in its original box, alongside a two-page printed copy of the legislative Act, which measures 10 inches by 15 inches. The entire collection is professionally mounted within a shadowbox frame measuring 23.5 inches by 26.75 inches. The display serves as a historical memento of executive action in the United States government during the early 1970s.
The set provides an insight into the formal instruments used for official presidential signing ceremonies.
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Physical characteristics
- Pen length
- 5.25 inches
- Frame dimensions
- 23.5 inches x 26.75 inches
- Document dimensions
- 10 inches x 15 inches
Technical characteristics
- Pen type
- Bill Signer
- Document type
- Act of the 93rd Congress
Design
- Pen feature
- silver facsimile signature
Identification
- Source note
- Described from a single auction-house listing published on Invaluable (reproduced with Invaluable's permission). Details apply to that one example; other examples of the type may differ, and the listing is supplementary evidence, not authentication.
- Maker named in listing
- Parker
Catalogue references
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