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Authors: Ramón Campos & Daniel Zazove.
A4 landscape-format edition, including 156 pages plus hard covers, Premium Color printed on 80 lb paper (120 gsm).
PARKER PENS: THE PIONEERS. The Parker Early Icons. The definitive work on Parker Pen in its formative years. Discover the most authoritative guide ever published on Parker pens, richly illustrated with exceptional visuals from the pre-Duofold era. This encyclopedia presents, for the first time, a complete and detailed catalog of every model manufactured by the Parker Pen Company in Janesville, Wisconsin, before the Duofold era. This reference work offers a wealth of high-resolution photographs and documentation. It features over 400 Parker pens photographed, showcasing a variety of designs and technical innovations corresponding to an anthology covering 147 distinct model numbers. The collection begins with Parker's earliest fountain pens from 1891. The presentation includes many models and their various versions, ensuring a comprehensive visual exploration of Parker's early fountain pens. These include both design and technical variations—such as barrel materials, filling systems like eyedroppers and button fillers, and cap types with the Jack Knife Safety as a key example. The book presents all overlays and variants, including repoussé, filigree, precious metal overlays, Mother-of-Pearl, Abalone, and Bakelite barrels. Documentation of all models—including those once considered “skipped” or “unrecorded” —clarifies longstanding questions about model numbering alongside original patents and manufacturing insights on Parker’s early filling systems and the evolution of the Lucky Curve feed. The research gives special attention to the identity of Parker’s craftsmen and silversmiths, shedding new light on the creators behind its gold and silver designs.