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The Parker Pen Company is an American manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 [1] by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. In 2011 the Parker factory at Newhaven, East Sussex , England, was closed, and its production transferred to Nantes , France.
An 1898 advertisement for the pen Jointless and spring lock Parker anti-break cap US653,818 patent Parker Pen at 17-19 South Main Street, Janesville. The Home of the Jointless fountain pen. The Parker Jointless "Lucky Curve" is a range of fountain pens released by the Parker Pen Company in late 1897.
Parker was careful to print prominent warnings on caps, labels, and boxes that the ink could only be used in the 51 (and, later, its economy version, the 21), and would damage any other pen. Prior to the full public introduction of the Parker 51 in 1941, selected market testing of the new pen was carried out, starting in 1939.
The Parker 180 is a fountain pen developed in the 1970s by the Parker Pen Company. Introduced to market in 1977 as an attempt to modernize the then-floundering fountain pen industry, the 180 was a slender pen with a very unusual flat nib design. [ 1 ]
The Parker Jotter is the Parker Pen Company's second and best-selling retracting refillable ballpoint pen. The first was the Hopalong Cassidy ballpoint (Later a fountain pen , mechanical pencil and rollerball pen were introduced to the line).
The pen and the ink were both named "51" to mark 1939, the company's 51st anniversary, during which development for the pen was completed (U.S. design patent No. 116,097, U.S. patent 2,223,541 filed). By giving the pen a number instead of a name, Parker avoided the problem of translating a name into other languages.
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