Restoring a vintage Parker Duofold Big Red at the Atlanta Pen Show, April 2025
New friends and old friends reunite at the Ohio Pen Show, November 2024
The Pen Paladin Table at the Ohio Pen Show, November 2024
Restoring a customers Vintage Fountain Pen at the Orlando Pen Show, September 2024
Vintage Parker Pens restored by The Pen Paladin Displayed for Sale at the Orlando Pen Show, September 2024. On display are Hard Rubber Pens from the 1910s with Button Fillers through Celluloid Vacumatics from the 1940s.
A portion of The Pen Paladin display at the Orlando Pen Show, September 2024, that included rare finds such as Vintage Brass Letter Openers and Newer Fountain Pens in discontinued or limited colors
On November 1, 1893, Parker filed patent US512319, for the first "Lucky Curve" feed, then known as the "Curved Tubular Feed".
An 1897 photograph of the newly formed Parker Factory on the second floor of the Myers Grand Opera House in Janesville, Wisconsin
As the Parker Pen Company grows, business expands and the Parker Section Factory moves to the 3rd floor of the Gazette Building in Janesville. This picture was taken in 1911.
Founder George Safford Parker in his private office in the Gazette Building, 1911.