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A Unique Parker Arrow

Sometimes you are just lucky to find a pen which is unique or very rare. It happened to me to stumble over a Parker Arrow where I couldn't find any additional information on the internet.

Asking around, I was told that especially Parker had one-to-several piece test-runs and this might be one of them.

So, I proudly present a rare or even unique Parker Arrow fountain pen:




On the trimband is written PARKER, the Parker France icon MADE in France AC and another Parker icon.

According to the Parkerpens.net's Parker pen code pages, AC means that this pen was produced in the 2nd quarter of 1982.

Parker seems to have played around with such kind of designs, see the torsade finish of a Parker 180 which is from 1981.

From the 4th quarter of 1981 is my second Parker Arrow, 12K gold filled (cap&barrel), Made in USA.




 cap tassies of the rare and the 12K gold Parker Arrow pens
weights will follow later


The nib writes really smooth. The lines are about 0.5 mm (M). A very nice pen for those who prefer such slim pens. Unfortunately, my pen size is more Montblanc 149 or Sailor KoP.


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