PA3567 Parker 51 Aerometric Whitefriars Glass Desk Set (Medium-Fine)

PA3567 Parker 51 Aerometric Whitefriars Glass Desk Set (Medium-Fine)

Date: c1960s

Size: Pen length 1643mm.

A lustrous India black English Parker 51 Aerometric desk pen and Parker trumpet with its original and beautiful blue Whitefriars glass bauble paperweight.  The barrel has a long taper with a gold plated end.  By the style of the taper, clutch ring and the Aerometric sac guard, this pen can be identified as probably from the mid 1950s, and the whole desk set can be dated from this.   Both barrel and hood are in very good conditionged with no splits, cracks or chips and no noticeable surface scratches either; the only damage that I could see on the pen is some foxing to the plating at the end of the taper.  The undamaged 14 carat gold hooded nib is in an excellent fine to medium point.  Unscrew the barrel to expose the aerometric filler.  This is polished stainless steel, and is still in excellent condition.  The original pli-glass ink sac still retains a little of its original transparency.  The black trumpet has a gold plated magnetic ball and stem.  The metal plate on the top of the glass base is also gold plated and shows a little wear to the plating at the edges.  The beautiful blue Whitefriars glass paperweight base has a lovely bubble grid decoration.  Mounted in the centre is an indentation that the magnetic trumpet ball sits in.  The magnet inside holds it steady at any angle.  

I have fully serviced this pen.  It writes superbly with the very smooth, wet and fine-to-medium width line that you would expect of a Parker 51. 

A very beautiful desk set.  I very rarely find these Whitefriars sets and this one is still in very good condition, and really looks the part.