c.1929 Parker Duofold Juniorette Fountain Pen - MANDARIN YELLOW

Vintage: c.1929 

Make: Parker

Model: Duofold Juniorette

Color: Mandarin Yellow 

Materials: Permanite (celluloid), gold-plated trim

Filling System: Button-filler (resacced and guaranteed to fill to factory capacity). To fill simply unscrew the blind cap, submerse the nib, and depress the brass button once.

Length: This short, slender model measures 4 1/2” capped and 5 1/2” posted. 

Nib: 14k Duofold nib lays down a smooth and consistent XF line.

Condition: Near mint. Mandarin Yellow is a very fragile color and the vast majority of these crop up with cap lip cracks. I’m happy to report that this example has no chips or cracks whatsoever. And the color is superb with no darkening of the barrel. Gold-plated trim is exceptionally clean with no brassing aside from the typical spot on the clip ball. Hard rubber parts are factory black with no oxidation. Manufacturer imprint on barrel is slightly weakened but still sharp and fully legible.

Details: This is a streamlined example in Mandarin Yellow: the scarcest and most desirable catalogued Duofold color. Becuase the color did not sell well when it was introduced in 1927 and was more fragile than Red or Black, one finds hundreds, if not thousands, of these more common colors for every clean Mandarin Duofold today. The cap and barrel are made of Permanite (DuPont’s proprietary celluloid) while the clip lock and blind cap are ebonite (black hard rubber). Deluxe trim configuration with clip and triple, gold-plated cap bands. This pen was made after Parker discontinued the Lucky Curve feed and accompanying LC imprint, having instead the later comb feed and simpler Duofold imprint.