Office Parker Stash

**MelanieWI** · November 19th, 2014, 08:14 AM

I work in a small nonprofit near the former Parker HQ in Wisconsin. We have a lot of Parker pens that have been donated to us over the years...mostly some very leaky Vectors that no one wants. But in cleaning out the closet, we came across a bunch of fountain pens! I was super-excited. No one else there appreciates fountain pens, and I immediately went online in search of info about them. Anyone know what they are? I was able to figure out that they are probably late 1990s, so I don't think they are super-valuable or anything. But if they have any worth to anyone, I'd try to sell them and give the proceeds back to my work.

The pens are all black, metal, and pretty slim. The clip and other parts are gold metal. The metal piece inside that you squeeze to fill it is labeled "Parker." At the broader end of the cap, it's embossed with "Made in USA," "Parker," and "IIIO". Some of them are marked with other letters instead, such as "IIIN".

Anyone have any info? I've done some googling, etc. but all I could find was info on the date codes...I couldn't find any pictures of that exact kind of pen.

**Laura N** · November 19th, 2014, 08:32 AM

I'm no expert, and probably wrong, but it looks a little like a Parker 180. That site parkerpens.net is a really good resource. But someone who's better at this probably will know exactly what pen it is.

**Spikey Mike** · November 19th, 2014, 08:40 AM

They are Parker Classic Fountain Pens.

The date codes IIIN refers to 1989, "III0" probably is actually IIIQ which would be 1990 which is bang in the middle of the Classic production dates.

Have a look here: http://pencollect.co.uk/parkerclassic.htm