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In 1888 he founded the Parker Pen Company and the next year he received his first fountain pen patent. By 1908, his factory on Main Street in Janesville was reportedly the largest pen manufacturing facility in the world. Parker eventually became one of the world's premier pen brands, and one of the first brands with a global presence.
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.
The first model was produced in 1921 and was a large pen – 5.5 inches long when capped. It was made of a showy bright red hard rubber and expensively priced at $7.00, equivalent to $120 in 2023. The original full-sized Duofold was soon joined by the smaller Duofold Junior, Duofold Special, and Lady Duofold.
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.
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The pen with the Lucky Curve. The success of the pen age. You cannot soil your fingers with a Parker Jointless.” "Sour Look, soiled fingers and spotted clothes identify the man who did not use a Geo. S. Parker fountain pen.” His invention of a "Jointless" fountain pen -without joints- added extra security to the use of these writing ...
When Parker crony Gabe Tucker threw a magazine piece on the Colonel’s desk that insinuated that Elvis was gay, Parker didn’t say a word until his friend stopped sputtering.