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Parker Duofold 100th Anniversary Limited Edition Blue
Parker Duofold 100th Anniversary Limited Edition Blue
The Parker Duofold 100th Anniversary Limited Edition Blue will be a favorite for many - classic styling and modern engineering combine to create a luminescent and beautiful writing instrument. The pen is provided with an 18k solid gold two-tone nib in your choice of Fine or Medium - we can also provide regrinds to finer nib sizes.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences. Parker 18k nibs also make an excellent starting point for many of our optional nib customizations, which can add to the character of your writing.
Produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this iconic fountain pen, the Parker Duofold 100th Anniversary Limited Edition series will be available for a limited time only. Each of the three pens in the series is hand-assembled from twenty-one finely engineered components, and multiple layers of precious resin are used to create the unique striped pattern on the cap and barrel.
The pen can fill with any bottled fountain pen ink when fitted with the provided converter, and can also use convenient high capacity Parker or Aurora brand disposable ink cartridges. Each pen ships in an attractive presentation box, makes this an excellent choice as a very special gift item. We are an authorized Parker dealer.
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Customization Guide
Stub
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Above is the same size nib after a regrind to Stub. A regrind to Stub is often a good place to start for your first customization. A Stub nib provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes while writing, and is less position-sensitive on the paper than the crisper and slightly more demanding cursive italic.
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Cursive Italic
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More demanding, but also providing crisper edges and more line-width variation, is the very popular customization to Cursive Italic. This also provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, but is also more position-sensitive in terms of how the pen is held and requires more skill on the part of the user. This is a common customization for artists and calligraphers, but is still smooth enough to make for a good everyday writer.
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Formal Italic
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Formal Italic is an even crisper and more demanding customization than either cursive italic or left oblique, and is usually utilized for calligraphy and by the most experienced users. This provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, with even crisper corners and edges than a cursive italic - this is an extremely position-sensitive customization.
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Left Oblique
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Commonly used for signatures and correspondence, the Left Oblique customization provides broad diagonal strokes and narrow cross-strokes, and like a cursive italic, is more position-sensitive and demanding than a stub. The whole pen must be rotated to the left in order to write smoothly, without skipping. The "Left" in Left Oblique refers to the cut of the nib itself, and does not refer to the handedness of the writer. |
Architect's Point (Also for Arabic and Hebraic writing)
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A more exotic regrind is that to Architect’s Point. Named after the style of writing used by Frank Lloyd Wright, this regrind is the opposite of cursive italic, and provides for broad cross-strokes and narrow down-strokes. This also tends to be a particularly useful customization for those practicing Arabic or Hebraic calligraphy. |
Spencerian
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Perhaps our most popular customization, but also one of the most advanced, the Mottishaw Spencerian Customization has gained special attention from being featured in a customer's YouTube video which has now received over twelve million views! The Spencerian starts from a semi-soft 14k nib and adds additional flex and a regrind to needlepoint to create a specialized writing point used for copperplate calligraphy. For more details, visit our special Spencerian page.. |