Fountain Pens Marketed To Specific Genders was the theme of our last meeting.
I presented a Parker Lady Duofold along with a magazine ad from 1931.
Here is the ad and a photograph of the same model pen. In the photo I've included a tiny 18 kt gold filled Peter Pan and a well made unknown brand hard-rubber and gold plate pen and a Parker Duofold Senior, for scale.
(This ad is courtesy of Nathaniel Cerf of The Pen Market in Illinois <http://www.thepenmarket.com>.
I expect these tiny pens were designed for a ladies purse. Many pen companies advertised lady sized pens in the same style of the Lady Duofold. Parker also advertised a smaller Duofold as the vest pocket pen, for mens waistcoats.
There's another ad I found in my collection, a Canadian one from 1953 that tells us the sex of the Parker 51.
Cheers,
Derek
Friday, January 23, 2015
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Derek, thank you so much for your blog post. Wonderful pen photo, as always!
Cheers,
~Maja
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