Legacy GoPens Blog
They're not much of a bother actually, unless you lose it. In fact, they're quite helpful. Piston-fillers and pump fillers often don't fill completely because the air gets stuck and cannot be exp...
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Extraordinary Pens - Parker 51 Buckskin
The Parker 51 is very popular and features some quality design, but one thing I really love about them is the colors. This gorgeous 1945 Parker 51 is a vacuumatic-filler in Buckskin Beige. The 14kt...
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Parker No. 58 Awanyu ''Aztec''
The No. 58 Awanyu Aztec Parker: $12.00! The original retail price was $12.00, that is. Currently, it is a little more expensive: $24.950. If you are looking for something to collect, this is an ext...
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Patent - Fountain Pen Cap Construction
It's fun and interesting to see patents - the originals behind the pens we love so much now. This patent was filed by Lester W. Ormsby, for The Parker Pen Company. Looking at the patent, one may re...
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Handwritten Post: Vintage Pen Brands - Flexed!
I thought this post would be fun to show some flex while listing a few of the pen brands. My favorite happens to be Waterman, because my first vintage pen was a red ripple Waterman 52V with a F-BBB...
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The Parker Vacumatic are some of the most beautiful vintage pens because of their wonderful laminated and striated caps and barrels. They were launched in 1932 and were so popular they soon outsold...
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The Parker Duofold is "unecessarily good." Parker was so certain of their Duofolds that they advertised, "Not one can fail, or we'll make it good free!" The nibs were advertised as "ultra-smooth, ...
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Parker Lucky Curve - Stop Those Leaks
This very interesting ad shows off the Parker Lucky Curve fountain pen, designed with a feed tube that was curved to touch the barrel wall. Where other fountain pens didn't have this, when they wer...
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