Parker "Jotters"... ball point and mechanical pencil.
Made, in former days at least, in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Came as a set or purchase separately. Somewhere in my pen collection I have a Parker 21 fountain pen and my wife bought me a Parker 51 sterling silver fountain pen. I used only green ink it it. Do you remember who else used only green ink?
During my working career I probably bought, used and either lost or destroyed a hundred of those. They were my favorite personal pen, at least when I could get them. Thanks for the memory.
fjdarling wrote:
During my working career I probably bought, used and either lost or destroyed a hundred of those. They were my favorite personal pen, at least when I could get them. Thanks for the memory.
you can still buy them at amason I use them still.
Reminds me of my late father-in-law David Pillow, MD, who always had a Parker T-Ball Jotter in his shirt pocket.
The father of family medicine speciality, he wrote many a prescription with a T-Ball Jotter.
whfowle
Loc: Tampa first, now Albuquerque
Mansfield Smith-Cumming other wise known as "Control" in the novels. Known from the John Le Carre' spy novels. Mansfield, it was said, always signed his name as "C" in green ink.
My favorite Parker pen is a collectors fountain pen where the case was said to be silver dredged up from sunken Spanish galleons off the coast of Florida. Bought it some time in the 60's from a shop in Tampa.
twosummers
Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England
When I was a local authority auditor we used green ink - the only ones allowed to use that colour
I could never understand the "T-Ball" jotter...
(I still have my Parker 61 and a stainless Jotter.)
They are still available. I use mine each day. I have both old and new, and the parts are still interchangeable.
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