PA3354 Parker Slimfold Fountain Pen and Pencil Set, boxed. (Soft Medium)

PA3354 Parker Slimfold Fountain Pen and Pencil Set, boxed. (Soft Medium)

Date: c1960
Size: Capped - 126mm; posted - 146mm.

This Slimfold set is in glossy jet black resin and is in beautiful condition.  Both pen and pencil have unmarked rolled gold trim.  Barrels and caps are in lustrous and scratch-free black resin.  There are no cracks, splits or chips in either pen or pencil.  This is the original model Slimfold with the rolled gold "deco" cap band and the imprint on the side of the barrel.  

Fountain Pen

The arrow clip and cap band are both free from brassing.  The plastic of both barrel and cap are scratch-free.  The imprint on the barrel is lovely and crisp and much deeper than usual.  The nib is a lovely shiny and perfect 14 carat yellow gold Parker No. 5 in medium point.  Opening the pen up, the aerometric filler is shiny and undamaged.  The original pliglass ink sac has just a little blue colour caste.   It retains nearly all of its original transparency.

Pencil

The rolled gold trim, consisting of arrow clip, cap band and the point is all unmarked and perfect.  The cap and barrel have no scratching and exhibit a lovely "as new" lustre.  The propel-repel mechanism works faultlessly by twisting the cap.  Taking the cap off, the original pink eraser looks barely used, but it has hardened over the years.   Beneath there are a couple of spare 0.9mm leads.    On the barre. is a clear imprint "Parker No. 3" / "Made in England".

Box

The original black and white paperboard box with the black polka-dot design is also in nice condition.  Just a tiny bit of corner and edge to the outer; the inside is lovely and clean and sports a cream-coloured satin pad.  

I have fully serviced this set.  During testing, the pen wrote beautifully.  The nib is very smooth and writes with a wet and consistent medium width line.  It is a soft nib and will provide for some very attractive line width variation from a fine to a generous medium width with very little effort.