Model identification guide: Top Line Lockdowns
ith
the Vacuum Filler Parker developed a Top Line and a Bottom Line, that
continued with the new Vacumatics, the difference being mainly price and
size, and later also design. The Top line had a life time guarantee, while
the Bottom Line had not. The Top Line had "jewels" at both ends
of the pens in the same colour as the pen (while the Bottom Line pens
had black jewels). Top Line Lockdown pens also had coloured sections (the
bottom part that holds the nib and ink-feed), while the bottom line pens
subsequently had black sections. The most noticable feature of the Top
Line pens was of course the three cap rings, while the Bottom Line only
had two.
There were four sizes of pens in the Top Line.
Click
on the pen that
correlates with Yours in size!
From
left: Oversize, Slender Oversize, Senior, Standard and Slender. The Slender
Oversize may not have been in the regular line up it replaced the unevenly
ringed Senior in 1936 and was subsequently discontinued for the Slende
Maxima.
