Parker
Founded 1888 · Janesville, Wisconsin, United States · George Safford Parker
Parker is the house that made the pen a mass product without giving up the engineering. Its founder began selling other people's pens, got tired of repairing them and decided to make them properly himself. Out of that came two of the most influential pens of the twentieth century: the Duofold and the 51.
History
George Safford Parker sold pens for the John Holland Pen Company and, being a good salesman, undertook to repair them; the volume of repairs taught him exactly what failed. In 1888 he founded his own company in Janesville, Wisconsin. In 1921 he launched the Duofold, with a striking orange body and a high price, which broke the idea that a pen ought to be discreet. In 1941 he presented the Parker 51, with a hooded nib and a cigar silhouette, designed to write with fast-drying inks; it became one of the best-selling pens in history and an exercise in industrial design still studied today. The brand is now part of the Newell Brands group.
Iconic models
Duofold (1921)
An orange body and a high price on purpose; the pen that proved visible luxury could be sold.
Parker 51 (1941)
A hooded nib and a cigar line; one of the best-selling and best-designed pens of the century.
Jotter (1954)
The click ballpoint with a steel body; probably the best-selling refillable ballpoint in the world.
Sonnet
The house's contemporary mid-range fountain pen, in lacquers and metals.
IM
Today's doorway: a metal body, a broad format and an accessible price.
Worth knowing
With a Duofold of his own, twenty years into its life, General Douglas MacArthur signed the document that ended the war in the Pacific in 1945.
Parker at Reserva de Marcha
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