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    Default Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    Hello!
    I found Parker Sonnet France P.III and don't understand is it fake or not? There is no any signs on ink container.
    Could you please help me?
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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    Looks genuine to me. I have a couple of dozen Sonnets of various vintages. Looks like a later Sonnet.

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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    Looks legit.

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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    Thank you very much! Could you me the approximate price of this pen? Or links to exactly this pen?

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    https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/p...k-ink/38132513

    Probably as close as you can get buying new.

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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    Thanx! And that is about this Parker instruction? It hasn't any stamps and dealer signatures. is that OK for original Parker pens?
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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    Pretty sure the sonnet I bought online for my dad didn't have any stamps in it. I would have to check though. I think it is something that gets neglected when buying on line from the likes of Amazon et al

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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    dannyboy

    Your Parker Sonnet is one of the last Mark III’s

    The pattern is Matt Black CT ( Chrome trim )

    2003 -2007 Parker / Waterman factory at Saint Herbain, Nantes, France

    Your pen cap has a date of February 2007

    I have spent a lot of time at this since the early 1990’s Mk I fakes ( I have a small collection of them )

    The article ‘ Attack of the Clones ‘ is now vastly outdated

    Currently there are 4 UK ebay sellers selling fake Chinese Sonnets , nib and lower shells.

    A complete chinese fake Sonnet pen can be bought for £2.29 ( approx $3 ) if you know where to look.

    Can you tell me what you paid for this pen please ?

    Next to no pen dealers actually stamp pen documentation these days unlike the old days.
    I would not read anything into it.

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    Proteus

    It was gift. I think that approximate price of it was 50$. There some Parker shops in Kazakhstan.
    From your words it follows that this is the original pen?

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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    The steel nibs generally seem pretty smooth, I prefer the 18k nibs which you can easily upgrade at a later date, they have a slight bounce/spring to them which I find very pleasant. Enjoy your new pen.

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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    RocketRyan
    thank you, sir!

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    Default Re: Fake Parker Sonnet or not?

    dannyboy

    Your Sonnet pen is 100% genuine.

    The Sonnet mark III nib shown has never been 'copied'


    You have mentioned ' There some Parker shops in Kazakhstan. '

    Can you tell me how you know that please.

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