PARKER 51 FLIGHTER FOUNTAIN PEN

PARKER 51 FLIGHTER FOUNTAIN PEN, STAINLESS STEEL

MARKED ON THE INSIDE " PARKER 51"

GOOD CONDITION.

LENGTH 135MM

NOT ORIGINAL CASE

Parker introduced the landmark Parker 51 in 1941. Many collectors see the advent of the Parker 51 as the changeover point from classic fountain pen design to modern, as the 51 introduced numerous completely new design elements. These include, first and foremost, a completely new nib and feed design, with the tiny tubular 14 karat gold nib housed inside a long hood with a large finned collector as a key element of the feed, keeping the ink flow wet. The pen used a new slip-on cap, using a fingered clutching inner cap to grasp the edges of the slightly raised ring that separates the barrel and section. The barrel and hooded section was made from Lucite, a new plastic also used to make the canopies of airplanes.

The new Parker 51 was like no other pen on the market, and Parker advertised it as, "The world's most wanted pen," a truism for even today's pen collectors. Parker used the numeric model name "51" to symbolize the company's 51st anniversary in 1939, the year Parker finished development. The 51 continued in production, through several design changes, until 1972. Parker reissued the 51 as a special edition in 2002.

The biggest improvement to the Parker 51 happened in 1948, with the introduction of the "Aero-metric" Parker 51 with the new "Foto-Fill" filler, replacing the proven Vacumatic system with a much more simplified unit. The new filling system is essentially a simple squeeze filler with a breather tube that allows the clear "Pli-Glass" plastic ink sac to fill more completely and also acts as an air pressure control, allowing the pen to be used at higher altitudes without leaking. The entire line was updated with a removable barrel to access the new filler and the clip design was updated to a simpler, cleaner version of the Arrow clip.

In late 1949, Parker introduced its first all stainless steel pen with gold filled trim, the Parker 51 Flighter. The Flighter was updated in 1950 with a shorter clip and a "squeeze 4 times" filler. Later in the 1950s, Parker dropped the gold filled cap band.

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