The PARKER #11 cable chased design overlay, eyedropper filled taper cap pen was made in two versions : one gold filled already posted on this blog ( and a sterling silver one ). Both pens have no PARKER imprint or any other imprint on the barrel ( for instance the pat. , sterling silver or gold filled or whatever! ) but instead of that both have the pat. and the Parker imprint on the black hard rubber taper cap. This happens also on the #11 aluminum Parker version. Besides that the sterling barrel ends in an abrupt way on the bhr barrel's end wich doesn't happen with the gold filled version wich ends like in the section's junction with a kind of ring. I was intrigued with this and the possibility of a defect but when I consulted the first Fischler & Schneider book I could see not only in the cover but also in the page iii ( introduction ) a similar pen.
This is a scan of the pen represented on the Fischler & Schneider book.
The referred abrupt end....
The end of the sterling barrel on the section with a kind of a ring.....
The cap imprint ( partial ) . Later on I will add more pics
My gold filled version with similar barrel's ends.
Now some questions: why George S. Parker decision not to mark these very early overlays ?
Were they also made by Heath ...or not yet? If not who was the maker ?
As a matter of fact I have a dip pen and a pencil in sterling silver with exactly the same pattern only marked sterling silver but not Heath !
Have a look at them
The sterling imprint on the dip pen
The sterling imprint on the pencil
And now a late dip pen (?) more ergonomic but with different pattern and imprinted sterling and also with the H inside a square wich was Heath hallmark
So I think that everything is correct with my pen and I would like to thank to George Kovalenko who helped me to find the year of the manufacture of this pen ( sometime after 1894 ) .
On the last days a nice discussion about this pen was open on the facebook group " fountain pen collectors".
Here is the link for those who use the FB:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/pen.collectors/permalink/10151683533943659/?comment_id=10151686241293659&offset=0&total_comments=17
To the others who do not use FB here is the complete discussion:
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