PA3620 Parker Duofold Junior Fountain Pen and Pencil Set, boxed. (Medium-Fine)

PA3620 Parker Duofold Junior Fountain Pen and Pencil Set, boxed. (Medium-Fine)

Date: c1950s

Size: Capped - 136mm; posted - 159mm.

This lovely glossy India Black Duofold set is in excellent condition.  Both pieces are free from cracks, chips and splits.  They have a beautiful glossy sheen and there are not even any noticeable surface scratches.  This is an example of the earlier style of Duofold Junior with the Parker arrow pocket clips and the rolled gold "Deco" engraved cap lip bands.  The caps have a black top "jewel".  All the trim is undamaged with no plate loss at all. 

Fountain Pen

The barrel imprint is nice and crisp and easily read.  The 14 carat yellow gold Parker No. 10 nib is undamaged and in a fine-to-medium point.  It has a large blob of iridium at the tip and will last for donkey's years.  The aerometric filler is accessed by unscrewing the barrel.  It is also undamaged with the original pliglass ink sac which shows some internal ink staining but it does retain a little of its original transparencyl.  The sac guard is chrome plated.  It is nice and shiny and shows none of the usual discolouration.

Pencil

This is the slightly larger Duofold Pencil.  Like the pen, it is in excellent condition.  I have installed a fresh 0.9mm lead into the mechanism so it is all ready to go.  The cap pulls off to reveal the original mostly worn pink eraser.  There is also an imprint on the pencil and it., too, is clear and crisp.

Box

The paperboard fur-textured box is in good condition with some edge and corner wear to the outside.  Inside, the pad is made from an ivory coloured satin that does have some age spotting and slight discolouration.

I have fully serviced this set.  The fountain pen writes very smoothly and produces a wet and consistent medium-fine width line.  The pencil works perfectly.