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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    All my Sheaffer school pens write better than any of my Parker 45s. This was surprising.

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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    I think these are the first Parker ( Eversharp ) fountain pen refills made.

    Any comments please
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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    I remember "Tap-Tank" on the first cartridges I got for my new Parker 45, December, 1960. I must have had a US-made P-45, probably bought at the pen counter of The Hecht Company, a department store in Washington, DC. Cartridges and Quink must have been made in Wisconsin.

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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    The price is definitely 1960s.

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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    Many thanks to Welch and as always, pajaro.

    I now am sure the first ' Parker ' ( Eversharp ) cartridges released for sale were in the third part of 1960.

    Whilst the first Parker ink converters were developed before this date but they were never released for sale - Patent issues with Eversharp original.

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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    This thread confirms what I suspected about my Parker 45. I thought it must have been produced around the same time that cartridges were introduced because of the inclusion of a demonstration cartridge unit along with a full cartridge.
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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    Krazy Ivan,

    I am please that you realised the significance of my post.
    ( Most would think it was of not important at all )

    As you thought the P45 was released with the new cartridge – October – ish 1960.


    I was trying to get my head around a different problem.

    If Parker ( Janesville ) had a initial production run of P51 C/C ‘s in 1958 why did they not released them before 1961.

    The answer is complex, but I now have it.
    In short Parker was developing with ‘ borrowed ‘ Eversharp technology

    What I did not realise is P51 C/C were released in 4 different versions at different intervals, 1961 / 1962 – 4 different branding of the same pens.

    Cartridge only – no chalk marks. ( Pre Chalk Marks )
    Cartridge only – Diamond chalk marks ( Earliest chalks marks )
    Cartridge only – ‘CARTRIDGE’ chalk marks ( First standard chalk marks )
    Full C/C , both cartridge and ink converter – ‘CONVERTIBLE’ chalk marks

    The above is a result of a collaboration between 4 Parker collectors ( only one is here on this forum )
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    Default Re: Some help please - When was the first Parker ink cartridge made.

    Was sent these images today by other Parker collector.

    They are net lifts.


    Have asked jos for copies of Parkergrams of June 1960 & August 1960.( PM )

    I think most Parker archive researchers missed something.

    This pen was made long before the P45, it is just too primitive for 1958-60 Parker development.
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