Parker Blue Striped Duofold Vac Fill Restoration

[Jeph]

In your case the barrel is marked Vacumatic and in my case the barrel is marked Duofold. In both cases those are the official names. Mine is a vac fill Duofold and yours is a striped Vacumatic. I think that DuoVac was coined by collectors. The Duovac moniker is pretty common but I have yet to see it in any Parker literature.

[GAtkins]

Does yours have: 1) a regular Duofold clip or a split-arrow Vacumatic clip, 2) a Duofold or Vacumatic nib, and 3) a Duofold filler or a plastic Vacumatic plunger filler?

According to Shepherd the six things that set a true DuoVac/Vacufold apart are: 1) It is made out of DuoFold stock, 2) It is marked “Vacumatic” on the barrel, 3) It sports a split-arrow Parker Vacumatic clip and not a DuoFold clip, 5) It came with a regular Vacumatic nib, 5) It uses the traditional Vacumatic plastic plunger filler, and 6) It has what is known as a “Jewellers” or “coin-stacked” cap band.

Does yours have these attributes? Hopefully it does.

Glenn