Restorations

Resacced and ready to use!

L-R Burnham, Belgor, Parker.

 

 

The Savoy fountain pen

This one is quite an oddity for me. A vintage Savoy fountain pen in green marbled celluloid, British made, dating back to the late 1930s perhaps.

It sports a large 14kt gold, medium tipped, semi-flex nib. Very smooth writer. The barrel is in three sections:  the top half is a deep red/brown translucent ink window with a rubber sac or 'bulb' attached. The lower half can be screwed off and is in green marbled celluloid like the cap. There is a blind cap also which hides an aluminium button to fill ink, but I don't find it as effective as simply squeezing the sac directly.

The Savoy 'bulb' filler, uncapped

The Savoy 'bulb' filler

14 ct gold warranted nib

'Savoy British made' barrel inscription

Uncapped and 'bulb' exposed

Blind cap opened to show button filler mechanism

The Parker Televisor

Another Canadian Parker, a Televisor. A button filler fountain pen in striated green pattern and has a medium semi-flex stub 14k gold nib made in Canada. 

This was the first Parker model solely made in Canada, a very attractive mid-priced button filler model that was introduced in 1935. 

Made around 1935, I think, this is the MK I version, thought to have been named so because of the visible ink window in the barrel and the growing popularity of the new invention called the television! This being a button filler, I don't understand the need for the ink window, and was probably in the design because of the fad in those times.

The pen has three cap bands and rounded black ends. The Televisor MKI sports the ball ended clip, imprinted with "Parker" inside a raised, elongated diamond shape.

 

 

The Televisor's ink window at the beginning
of the section.