It's a Parker 51 Aerometric. It used to be my dads, from his "flash youth" when he liked to sigh with a florish of a fountain pen. I suspect those were the days he wore white silk-satin shirts, red velvet waistcoats and winklepickers. I have a vague memory of my mum mentioning green trousers too, but that may just be wishful thinking on my part.
He handed it over on the 25th suggesting it might be a good idea to give it a bit of a wash out before I tried to use it.
Wise advice indeed. It turns out papa put the pen away, about 50 years ago, quite full of bright blue ink. Peacock blue really. The flushing process took most of the afternoon and a little bit of this morning.
It's done now, I filled it with beautiful Noodler's Periwinkle Blue.
I even did a little photoshoot, with 'help' from my beautiful, furry studio assistants.
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Vurry, vurry jim dandy. Wise man, your dad.
Oh, and the ink! Is it opaque? Drool.
The Periwinkle? It's an odd one, it's opaque in the bottle but not on paper. However, under a uv light it fluoresces I understand, yet to test that. It smells like Perkins Paste! Do yyou have perkins paste in the US?
I feel so clever for spotting the opacity, because I need ego boosts sometimes.
We don't have Perkins Paste, but I bet it smells just like the white paste I used to eat in kindergarten. A little minty?
Not at all minty, more ... poster painty - but it was eaten by many, many Australian schoolchildren.
I've a couple of other opaque inks, one is a very pretty, minty green!
What a special, thoughtful and sentimental gift.
Quite perfect.
;o)
Lee, and he didn't think of it until he asked what I was going to keep in my box - then a tiny memory dug it's way out and bingo! As you say, perfect.
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