Wild 51 while antiquing

[Cameo]

Hello to all - this is my first time posting on this part of the forum. I wanted to upload a few pics of the Parker 51 I bought while I was out "antiquing" with my wife. It has a steel cap and the tag said the pen was from 1948 and was labeled parker buckskin. I'm sure it will need some work so I am planning a trip to see a gentleman who has taught me about fountain pens. Thanks for looking and for any information you can send my way. 871387148715

[Jeph]

nice find

[tandaina]

My understanding is those old fillers are pretty tough. I'd try and see if it'll take water, might not need anything at all.

Very nice find. 51s are work horses and I like the less common colors.

[gweddig]

If it is indeed Buckskin, then you have happened upon one of the less common colors. Nice find!

--greg

[sloegin]

Not buckskin, but cocoa. Buckskin did not come in the aerometric filler.

[Cameo]

After reading the replies, and getting some help from google - I also think that I have a cocoa 51 and not a buckskin. In the search images I found, I didn't notice a buckskin with a steel cap... Thanks for all the help!

[Cameo]

Tandaina, I followed your advice and my new friend started to write!8730

[tandaina]

Yay! :)

Did it take water so you filled it with ink...

Or did it take water and revived the ink some owner left there 50 years ago? That's a 51 for you. :) :pound:

[Cameo]

It was a revival of the old ink!

[usk15]

That's a beautiful find! good luck with this workhorse!

[Cameo]

Thanks!

[lisantica]

I love old ink revivals!
Congrats on a marvelous find!

[Frank]

Congrats on your 51 find!!

:)

[amk]

Congratulations. You are now, of course, a lost cause, and will haunt antique shop after antique shop trying to repeat this wonderful stroke of luck...

The good news is that if you do it long enough, sooner or later you get another one :-)

That's really a lovely pen.

[gweddig]

The good news is that if you do it long enough, sooner or later you get another one :-)


I found a Demi Cocoa "51" a few years ago in a shop, I wasn't very excited by the color so I sold it. Shortly after found another one, same thing, different shop (though it was double the price…$20US). I'm thinking someone wants me to have this so I'm going to hang onto this one.

[mastersmith]

Great find!

[Craig Ruhl]

Congratulations on a great pen find. The 51 series is my favorite line of pens. Certain sense of accomplishment to find a great one in the wild too.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Tandaina, I followed your advice and my new friend started to write!8730

My heart is boiling over with white-hot jealousy...

;)

That is SOME spectacular find. I love the color and the fact that it still writes.

[Runnin_Ute]

That is a very nice 51!!

[pajaro]

That is a very nice pen and a great discovery. I used to find 51s at yard sales when I had the time and the energy to visit them. It gives me a lot of pleasure to know others are still uncovering Parker 51s and restoring them to use. This cocoa pen is a wonderful find. Congratulations.

[Hawk]

Very nice find!

[davefeldman]

That is a very nice pen and a great discovery. I used to find 51s at yard sales when I had the time and the energy to visit them. It gives me a lot of pleasure to know others are still uncovering Parker 51s and restoring them to use. This cocoa pen is a wonderful find. Congratulations.

It seems like I've been seeing fewer 51's at garage and estate sales. Makes sense, I guess, if you think about when they were produced. I was finding a few a year, for a while.

[scrivelry]

I've been going to yard sales on and off since I was seven, and I have found over time that the stuff you see changes in the sort of stuff people are selling as different generations clear out the house to go live in Florida, or otherwise exit the area.

Of course there is also the getting rid of the plastic sandbox and car and other toddler toys at which I would not at all expect to find a fountain pen, although I ran into a bunch of journals at one of those.

The scariest part is when you start seeing stuff you wanted, but could not afford,when it first came out, hitting the "old stuff I'm getting rid of" terminals like garage sales and thrift stores...

[jadehawk]

No wonder I can't find nothing down here in Florida. They get sold before getting here!! :)

[pajaro]

No wonder I can't find nothing down here in Florida. They get sold before getting here!! :)

I lived in Pensacola for about 40 years. I found a number of pens, 51s and others, and a good many were gifts the recipient never used. Pensacola, though, is really in the Deep South, and a tad bit different from peninsular Florida. I have lived all over the state, and did find a few 51s in Fort Meyers while visiting my parents.

[KBeezie]

Cocoa Brown looks very attractive.