PA3687 Parker 65 Classic. (Soft Medium)

PA3687 Parker 65 Classic. (Soft Medium)

Date: c1960s

Size: Length - 136mm, capped; 158mm posted.

This beautiful lustrous teal coloured '65 is in very good condition with the only damage that I can find being some small surface marks to the hood which were no doubt caused by the cap clutch.  The '65 was a variation on the '61 with an open cropped nib replacing the tubular hooded nib of the '61.  Both cap and barrel have a lovely clear grey "jewel" held in with chrome plated tassies.  The cap is made from Lustraloy and is delicately and beautifully frosted, making this the "Classic" model.  The chrome plated pocket clip has a long arrow "flight", again in the Parker 61 style.   The barrel unscrews to allow the fitting of a standard Parker ink cartridge or you can the original squeeze-bar ink converter that is already fitted to the pen.  The nib is shiny and undamaged with lots of iridium and in 14 carat gold.  It is in a medium point.

I have fully serviced this pen.  I did just dip the tip of the nib to test it.  The nib is very smooth and lays down a wet and medium width line.  It does have some softness and will even produce a tiny bit of line width variation whilst you write.