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    Default Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Inkyrimoo who looks rather more rounded here.
    Visconti Wallstreet - IMO inspired by the Vacumatic not the Manhattan skyline as Visconti claims.
    Canadian Vacumatics from Mrs Bogon's father:
    Brown Gold 53 - broken nib but works semi ok after sanding nib.
    Gold Green 50 - seems to have ink sac problems and missing cap ring, maybe threads striped slightly.
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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogon07 View Post
    Inkyrimoo who looks rather more rounded here.
    Visconti Wallstreet - IMO inspired by the Vacumatic not the Manhattan skyline as Visconti claims.
    Canadian Vacumatics from Mrs Bogon's father:
    Brown Gold 53 - broken nib but works semi ok after sanding nib.
    Gold Green 50 - seems to have ink sac problems and missing cap ring, maybe threads striped slightly.
    Vac-Wall.jpg
    Very nice. Is that visconti the non-LE version...and are the sizes b/w the LE and non-LE versions different?
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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Looks LE? Their sizes tend to be the same or similar, but there is something much more substantial about the LEs - more expensive material, often heavier, and nicer nibs. I have a non-LE red version of Wall street, but it looks different than his blue one somehow. Just seems "less" than what I see here. My LE Operas are all the same size as the non-LE, but they are different in all of those ways. Just my take, what a great trio of pens here!!

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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Bogon, love the moo. What a cutie!

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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    The blue one!
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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    LOL. I really need to read the forums before I write letters. So in your letter dated today Bogon, these are the exact same colour vacumatics that I was talking about in my letter. Too bad I just sealed up the envelope too, how eerie.

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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Quote Originally Posted by fountainpenkid View Post
    Very nice. Is that visconti the non-LE version...and are the sizes b/w the LE and non-LE versions different?
    Quote Originally Posted by Tracy Lee View Post
    Looks LE? Their sizes tend to be the same or similar, but there is something much more substantial about the LEs - more expensive material, often heavier, and nicer nibs. I have a non-LE red version of Wall street, but it looks different than his blue one somehow. Just seems "less" than what I see here. My LE Operas are all the same size as the non-LE, but they are different in all of those ways. Just my take, what a great trio of pens here!!
    FPK & Tracy Lee I'm fairly sure it is not the LE version. The Blue could be a limited version of each type there appears to be less of them around and may be blue looks bigger than red in photos.

    If you look at the two versions over at the OnlinePenCompany you can see the difference the Le has a clear ink window and while the mundane version has a chrome grip section. It is much easier when you see them without the cap on. I should have taken a 2nd set of photos uncapped.
    The LE at nearly twice the price has a fancy 23K Palladium nib vs the 14K rhodium plated nib and a double RSV power filling system vs a cartridge converter arrangement. The Blue could be a limited version of each type there appear to be less of them around and maybe blue looks bigger than red in photos.

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    V_WallStreet_green_FP_L.jpg

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    http://www.theonlinepencompany.com/p...p?sku=V000380N
    V_LE_Wallstreet_Green_FP_L.jpg
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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    I like the flat bottom barrel of the blue one. Does it have a jewel on that end?
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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Quote Originally Posted by KrazyIvan View Post
    I like the flat bottom barrel of the blue one. Does it have a jewel on that end?
    No it has the usual metal Visconti seal thingo. However in some of their other pens like the Rembrandt it is held by a magnet and maybe interchanged with jewels, initials, stars signs from their pen personalisation kit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bogon07 View Post
    No it has the usual metal Visconti seal thingo. However in some of their other pens like the Rembrandt it is held by a magnet and maybe interchanged with jewels, initials, stars signs from their pen personalisation kit.
    Oh, I meant the Blue Parker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KrazyIvan View Post
    Oh, I meant the Blue Parker.
    The top blue pen is a Visconti Wallstreet which has a similar stripe celluloid look. Sorry for the confusion.
    From what I've seen people like to call blue Vacumatics ...Azure.
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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogon07 View Post
    The top blue pen is a Visconti Wallstreet which has a similar stripe celluloid look. Sorry for the confusion.
    From what I've seen people like to call blue Vacumatics ...Azure.
    My Visconti lack of knowledge is showing. I guess Parker too. Slaps forehead.
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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Sure looks more substantial than my red one, but thanks for telling the difference. I never paid much attention, honestly, to LE versus non-LE in that particular pen.

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    Default Re: Canadian Parker Vacumatics

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogon07 View Post

    Quote Originally Posted by Tracy Lee View Post
    Looks LE? Their sizes tend to be the same or similar, but there is something much more substantial about the LEs - more expensive material, often heavier, and nicer nibs. I have a non-LE red version of Wall street, but it looks different than his blue one somehow. Just seems "less" than what I see here. My LE Operas are all the same size as the non-LE, but they are different in all of those ways. Just my take, what a great trio of pens here!!
    FPK & Tracy Lee I'm fairly sure it is not the LE version. The Blue could be a limited version of each type there appears to be less of them around and may be blue looks bigger than red in photos.

    If you look at the two versions over at the OnlinePenCompany you can see the difference the Le has a clear ink window and while the mundane version has a chrome grip section. It is much easier when you see them without the cap on. I should have taken a 2nd set of photos uncapped.
    The LE at nearly twice the price has a fancy 23K Palladium nib vs the 14K rhodium plated nib and a double RSV power filling system vs a cartridge converter arrangement. The Blue could be a limited version of each type there appear to be less of them around and maybe blue looks bigger than red in photos.

    Mundane
    http://www.theonlinepencompany.com/p...Fountain%20Pen
    V_WallStreet_green_FP_L.jpg

    LE
    http://www.theonlinepencompany.com/p...p?sku=V000380N
    V_LE_Wallstreet_Green_FP_L.jpg
    How odd. Mine is definitely the upper one in the photo (that colour, too) with the metal nib section, and the nib looks like the one in the photo, but it is definitely the Palladium nib, and not a 14k rhodium-plated gold nib. The nib is marked, '23K Pd 950' and 'firenze'.

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