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GordonH
July 26th, 2013, 03:21 AM
I was viewing Stephen Brown's video comparison of the plastic Vector and the current all metal Vector.

However, back in the 1990's I was given a black all metal fountain pen by Parker which was identical to a Vector, but all metal. Can anyone remember what this model was called? I recall it was not called a Vector and had a different name.

I looked here and there is nothing like it:
http://parkerpens.net/vector.html

It had a gold clip and a gold plated nib and a gold coloured circle set into the end cap. It cost about £25 - five times the cost of a Vector at that time.
Although the nib unit was the same as a vector I found it clogged badly - on numerous occasions. I am sure it eventually ended up being thrown out as there was no easy way to clean the nib. If I had had access to an ultrasonic cleaner back then I might have been able to fix it.

Any ideas what this pen model was called? i think I was given it in 1994, but it may have been later.

erpe
July 26th, 2013, 03:49 AM
Could have been an "88" or Rialto maybe? Check this page on the same site http://parkerpens.net/parker88.html

GordonH
July 26th, 2013, 03:53 AM
That's the one!

I knew somebody round here would know.

pencils+pens
July 26th, 2013, 05:03 AM
Those are good pens, I own two of them. I purchased them off eBay. Once I got the prior ink out of them, they wrote well. They also fetch a tidy sum on eBay.