The Parker Pen Company: A Complete Chronology
Fondo Documental Parker | Colección Ramón Campos | SEDE
This comprehensive chronology offers an exhaustive examination of the Parker Pen Company’s formative years and its subsequent global ascent. Moving beyond a simple list of dates, this record synthesizes primary source material—including rare executive proxies, personal testimonies from George S. Parker, and original patent filings—to reconstruct the firm’s history with unprecedented precision. From the earliest technical collaborations in Janesville and the initial 1889 orders for hard rubber and gold nibs, to the strategic emergence of the William F. Palmer partnership, each entry serves as a verified touchstone. This timeline stands as a definitive scholarly resource, capturing the technical evolution and the entrepreneurial spirit that transformed a teacher’s dissatisfaction with leaking pens into a legacy of international innovation.
| 1887 04 19 | Clarence W. Taylor, Principal of Valentine’s and Parker’s boss a year later, filed underfeed pen patent US361468 (more othe three patents). | |
| 1888 03 00 | “The first time George S. Parker ever saw Janesville was 42 years ago this March week” GSP at Parker Club Meeting on March 4, 1930. In 1887 the writer was a very young man and working in his father’s farm (GSP Proxy 1925.06.10). 1892 05 “”I have worked here (at the School) more than two years and never during that period have I had any word of commendation” (GSP Proxy December 14, 1927). | |
| 1888 03 00 | “Way back in 1887 the writer was a very young man and working on his father’s farm when out of college” Proxy June 10 1923. | |
| 1888 12 04 | Filed patent US416944 overfeed with an independent and removable capillary upper-feed tongue. | |
| 1889 00 00 | GSP in 1889 Janesville Curtis Directory teacher Valentine’s with residence in 8 Milton Avenue. Also the same in Bunn 1889-1890 Janesville directory. | |
| 1889 00 00 | When I started in the fountain pen business many years ago, there were two numbers, one number one and the other, number three. They were both overfeed pens with a funny little kind of feeder (feed nowadays). The number one pen had a flat pen (nib nowadays) in it, and the feeder (feed) extended on the top; the number three was the same except that it had a chased barrel and a curved pen (nib). Proxy August 16, 1931. | |
| 1889 00 00 | “First order for rubber rod placed with American Hard Rubber Co. Davidson of New York City made gold nib” GSP at Parker Club Meeting on March 4, 1930. | |
| 1889 09 28 | Filed patent US423804 overfeed improvement. | |
| 1890 00 00 | GSP Valentines’ teacher, and residence in 8 Milton Avenue (Janesville directory 89/90). | |
| 1890 11 26 | Filed patent US455023. Granted June 30, 1891. Double use; as overfeed or underfeed. One-half assigned to Palmer from the start. First Palmer mention. | |
| 1891 01 02 | Myers Grand Opera House reopened after Feb. 20, 1889 fire. | |
| 1891 03 24 | E.C. Burdick selling Safford fountain pens. | |
| 1891 00 00 | “The first Parker pen was put on the market was in 1891” 1904 02 13 JDG Increase capital stock news. January The Office Men’s Record speak about The Parker Pen Co. | |
| 1891 00 00 | “George S.Parker the sole workman and William F. Palmer the traveling representative” JDG 1904 02 13. | |
| 1891 03 00 | Proxy March 25, 1920 “29 years ago this month Parker Pen Co. first saw the beginnig of their career”.The Company was established a year before its incorporation. (W. Palmer in Proxy). Starting less than eight years ago in a single small room (Side Talks June 1899). | |
| 1891 03 00 | In Myers’ House Hotel. | |
| 1891 07 00 | First Parker pen ad. The Office. Overfeed Reproduced no. 3 (chased). | |
| 1891 11 07 | Parker ad nib 16k. $2.50. New England Farmer. | |
| 1891 12 06 | Parker Pen at $2.50 sold $1.50 The Boston Sunday Globe ad. | |
| 1891 12 00 | Palmer director of Northwestern Investment and Improvement Co. (newspaper). | |
| 1892 00 00 | Salary Parker = Palmer = §250.00 month. Directors Parker and C. Basset. Palmer president, C. Basset vicepresident, Parker secretary and treasury, Very grateful to Will Jeffris and William Bladon for credit-less collateral. | |
| 1892 02 12 | Incorporation in Neenah of Parker Pen Co. It is granted by Palmer in the presence of Notary Public William G. Brown. Fred Lippert (months later also in Century’s incorporation) is there. Parker is not there. $1,000 capital stock. | |
| 1892 05 27 | Geo. S. Parker resigned at Valentine Brothers School of Telegraphy, for devote his whole time to the Parker Pen Co. | |
| 1892 05 aprox | Geo. S. “boards” in the Myers House. In the same year, months later, he gets married. | |
| 1892 06 00 | Parker have catalog. “Write for catalog”. The Chronicle Kansas city ad. | |
| 1892 09 12 | Century Pen Co. Incorporation in Neenah by Fred Lippert, E.A. Williams, and S.B. Morgan (director of Northwestern Investment and Improvement Company as Palmer) before Notary Public William G. Brown and Palmer. Parker is not there. What is Palmer’s role if he is not a shareholder? | |
| 1892 11 24 | George Parker married Martha M. Clemens, in Chicago. The two met at the Valentine School of Telegraphy. After they were married, the Parkers lived at 451 Court Street. For many years they traveled the world together. | |
| 1892 12 14 | Filed patent US510439 Double feed. A prong deflected at the end as initial idea of later “Lucky Curve”. This patent would be yielded in 1894 to Century Pen Co. as non-monetary contribution. | |
| 1893 00 00 | Parker no. 3, and no. 8 in Nick’s Commercial Guide. | |
| 1893 06 08 | First new feed notice (soon Lucky Curve). American Stationer. Immense sale of Parker. An improvement has been made on the feed, entirely differing in principle from any heretofore in use. The new feed entirely obviates all danger of bleeding. | |
| 1893 09 15 | Russell Clemens Parker is born. | |
| 1893 10 00 | Parker no. 12 mother of pearl in Frank Harrison Shorthand Magazine. | |
| 1893 11 01 | Filed patent US512319 “Lucky Curve” feed -initially called “Curved Tubular feed”-. Witness Jeffris. The feed granted in this patent was called initially «Curved Tubular Feed». Parker, in their file «Lucky Curve» trademark 37,670, claims its «christening» on January 1, 1896, although it is true that it is not until December 1896 when we will see the words «Lucky Curve» in ads. | |
| 1893 12 12 | Parker pens at $1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, and 5.00 ($6.00 in next ad). The Janesville Gazette ad. | |
| 1893 12 31 | Closed the year with two employees (Proxy January 22, 1930). | |
| 1894 01 09 | Granted patent US512319 “Lucky Curve” feed -initially called “Curved Tubular feed”-. Witness Jeffris. | |
| 1894 02 00 | Century Pen Company was apparently without activity or bankruptcy. | |
| 1894 03 00 | First ad (Frank Harrison Shorthand Magazine) “never clogs or blurs” in May 1894 Curved Tubular feed “the end is curved…” | |
| 1894 04 13 | Agreement Parker & Palmer sell half of the stock to J.N. Humprey and elect him to be the company’s secretary and treasurer Century Pen Co. to J.N. Humphrey. P&P assigned trade-mark and patent to the company. Change of registered office from Neenah to WhiteWater and Parker undertakes to render such assistance as possible in the way of supplies at cost. | |
| 1894 04 24 | Parker and Palmer subscribe 49 acc of $ 10 through non-monetary contribution. GSP contributes with patent 510439 and Palmer assign “The Century Pen” trade mark 9,337. | |
| 1894 04 24 | It is not explained how Palmer & Parker take control of the Century Pen Co, and they sell to Humphrey, if they were not shareholders previously, perhaps as an adjudication for supply debts of which we have no record? | |
| 1894 05 14 | “All interest in the Century Pen has been sold to Professor J. N. Humphrey of Whitewater, by the Parker Pen Co. of this city.” JDG. | |
| 1894 05 28 | James Nelson Humphrey, who signed the capital increase, was elected Century director and also as the company’s new secretary; Parker became the company’s vice president. | |
| 1894 – 1895 | Celadon Basset vicepresident of theParker Pen Co. In the Janesville City Directory (1896-7 nor 98-99 say nothing regarding Parker only Basset & Echelin). | |
| 1895 01 01 | George S. Parker Pen Co , will manufacture its own stock barrels hard rubber (JDG December 21, 1894). | |
| 1895 00 00 | According with Directory of Janesville, Palmer President, Parker secretary-treasury . | |
| 1895 03 00 | First national ad (Ladies’ Home Journal) Curved Tubular feed | |
| 1895 04 08 | Kenneth Safford Parker is born. | |
| 1895 09 11 | Parker Letter speaking on nos. #24 and #25 as men’s pens | |
| 1895 12 00 | The Western Telephone Construction Co. incorporated by Parker, Palmer and Pipelow, Capital $5,000 | |
| 1896 00 00 | Five years ago not more than one | |
| 1896 01 01 | hundred Parker Pens were in existence; to-day there are SEVERAL HUNDRED | |
| 1896 03 12 | SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND pens Five years ago not more than one hundred Parker Pens were in existence; to-day there are SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND in daily use, not only in this country, but in every civilized country on the face of the globe. 1896 catalog. | |
| 1896 07 00 | The small sized Underfeed Pen “Special” in Side Talks | |
| 1896 09 00 | in July “Side Talks,” has since found many new | |
| 1896 09 00 | friends. .It is a seller, for there is an unmistakable and | |
| 1896 11 00 | Tip Dip desk pen furnished with E. S. Johnson; Aiken, Lambert & Co., and H. M. Smith & Co. nibs | |
| 1896 11 00 | growing demand for a first class, medium priced, underfeed | |
| 1896 11 00 | Pen. If your trade demands a lower priced Pen Be | |
| 1896 12 00 | than our No. { Parker, write us for quotations on the BS | |
| 1896 12 07 | “Special” Pen. | |
| 1897 00 00 | According with Directory of Janesville, Palmer Parker Pen Co. President, Parker secretary-treasury | |
| 1897 03 00 | First mention known of “Silver Dollar” a fountain Pen that will retail for $1.00″. Parker gives the privilege of returning unsold material to exchange it for another pens (Side Talk) | |
| 1897 04 04 | Palmer was replace as director and president of the Century. Parker, however, remained the company’s third director and became its Vice President. On June 9, J.N. Humphrey was appointed General Manager, with a salary of $100.00 per month. | |
| 1897 06 26 | Filed patent US606231 Lucky Curve improvement I and under-feed | |
| 1897 07 00 | Parker introduced a new style holder with slip fit cap in #18 and #2X models. One of the problems of hard rubber was caps on fountain pens will in time wear loose (Side Talk July & Youth’s Companion July 29 ad) | |
| 1897 09 00 | We see Parker ink –probably from Hull Manufacturing. New numbers no. 18 with new style holder at 2$ and no. 23 at 3$ (Side Talk) | |
| 1898 00 00 | 11 employees. (H. Morrissey). During this time in this building, it was always one of Mr. Parker’s duties or jobs to set-up our chasing machine. This machine, hand operated, did one cap or barrel at a time. We had SIX different patterns which were catalogued and when ordered the machine had to be changed to make that pattern. Mr. Parker, very strict about this machine, did all the adjusting himself. Another job that was always very carefully done was the turningdown to size of our feed rod. This was taken care of by Mr. Palmer and he always set the fixture up and followed this particular work thru himself. Raw stock from the American Hard Rubber Company | |
| 1898 01 00 | Side Talks speaks for the first time on Jointless | |
| 1898 03 07 | Filed patent US622256 Under-feed Jointless Lucky Curve section. Witness William Palmer, and May Norris. | |
| 1898 04 07 | First Jointless ad. Youth’s Companion. | |
| 1898 05 00 | Side Talks. Parker Beauty Contest under supervision of advertising managers Lord & Thomas. Parker offers ink | |
| 1898 05 00 | Side Talks. Parker open a branch office at 184 La Salle Street, Woman’s Temple, Chicago | |
| 1899 05 11 | GSP $5,000 new home at the corner of Harrison and Court | |
| 1898 06 00 | We see gothic typography, and capitular letter for the first time (Side Talks) | |
| 1898 11 00 | Circa Adquisition of Hull Manufacturing company of Milton Junction(December 9 JDG). When they move to their newly purchased quarters in South Main they will enter into the manufacture, of type writer ribbons, paste and ink that was formerly manufactured by the Hull Manufacturing company of Milton Junction, the Parker company having recently bought this firm out. They will also make their own paper pen boxes. The company has asked for no bonus, and remains there of its own accord in spite of the fact that Rockford, Oshkosh, Chippewa Falls and Whitewater made tempting offers to move. Daily Northwestern Oshkosh Dec. 14, 1898 | |
| 1898 11 00 | (JDG 12 12 1898) The Company purchased for $9,500 the McKey Building Block, later known as the Beverly Theatre Building, at 17-19 South Main Street. they were using the top three floors of the McKey building. The upper floors were 44 X 85 feet each. When the Janesville Clothing Company vacated the first floor of the McKey building in late 1905 or early 1906, they chose to not take over the ground floor. Instead, the street level of 17-19 S Main was occupied by “Roy Pierson, auto garage”. | |
| 1898 12 10 | Judge Day affised his signature to the Teatry of Peace at Paris with a Parker Jointless No. 023. | |
| 1898 12 00 | Parkeris employing a force of about forty 40 hands | |
| 1899 00 00 | According with Wright’s of Janesville, Palmer Parker pen Co. President, Parker secretary-treasurer | |
| 1899 02 16 | Ad in The Youth´s Companion $800 1/4 page. It is said to be the largest and most expensive advertisement ever devoted to the subject of fountain pens. 600,000 circulation, aprox. Seen by 3,000.000 people. it may be of interest to you to know that we are to-day the largest fountain pen advertisers in the world, said Parker. | |
| 1899 03 00 | In the spring of 1899, the Parker Pen Co. was already located in their new home The Jointless Home. South Main Street (McKey Building Block-later Beverly Theater Building) | |
| 1899 03 00 | In the new factory they added new lines. these are the manufacture of Inks, Office Paste and Mucilage, also the manufacture of Typewriter Ribbons (From Hull Manufacturing Co.). | |
| 1899 05 04 | The Parker Pen Company are. moving into their new quarters on South Main street (JDG) | |
| 1899 05 05 | Hathan J. Hull has engaged for special work with the Parker Pen company, of Janesville. | |
| 1899 05 08 | Parker Pen Co. at work in their new quarters (JDG 1899 05 09) | |
| 1899 06 00 | More than 6,000 dealers (Side Talks) | |
| 1899 06 03 | Parker emploees picnic | |
| 1899 06 00 | Parker Jointless Physician’s Thermometer #025 adaptep. Price, S5. A small bottle of the finest Parker ink is sent free with each Parker pen. Parker continues making repairs (Side Talk) | |
| 1899 06 30 | Filed patent US642151. Jointless simplified construction I. | |
| 1899 06 30 | Filed patent US635700. Jointless simplified construction II. | |
| 1899 10 25 | Parker Baby Contest under supervision of advertising managers Lord & Thomas | |
| 1900 00 00 | 36 employees (H. Morrissey). 40 employees (22 male, 18 female) Wisconsin docs. | |
| 1900 01 00 | The fountain pens (jointless) begin to be fitted with the antibreak cap (Side Talks Jan. 1900). Cap warranted for a year. | |
| 1900 01 00 | Siver Dollar or Palmer’s Improved Fountain Pen | |
| 1900 02 16 | Sentence Waterman vs Parker Circuit Court. E.D. Pennsylvania. | |
| 1900 04 00 | Parker adds Ivory paste | |
| 1900 04 09 | Filed patent US653818 Anti-break cap | |
| 1900 06 30 | GSP Trip. Geo. S. Parker sailed for Europe. The trip about 5 weeks. (Paris, Vienna and Germany, to see Parker history in Pennant). + Daily Democrat June 20, 1900. + Iowa County Democrat | |
| 1900 07 07 | 1900 07 05 Trip. George S. Parker to Europe American Stationer | |
| 1900 07 28 | Cable received from Parker today saying he had sailed on the steamship New York for home. | |
| 1900 08 09 | Bernard Morey Palmer (William`s son) representing to Parker Pen Co. at Oshkosh | |
| 1900 09 00 | GSP Trip. GSP in first person wrote “The writer has just returned from a trip to Great Britain and Continental Europe, where he went to look up trade and observe business conditions. (Sep. 1900 Side Talks) | |
| 1900 09 00 | Beginning of gothic typeface in Side Talks | |
| 1900 11 00 | More than 6,000 dealers (Side Talks) | |
| 1900 11 00 | November Side Talks. December 15 SEP. Pens totally, barrel and cap, gold covered pens introduced. «No. 30, price $10.00, (shown on the left), one of the most beautiful pens ever made. It is indeed a pen of such rare beauty that a Queen might well feel proud to own. Barrel and cap covered with pure 18k gold of rare and rich design. Makes a present that would be treasured for a lifetime.» | |
| 1900 11 00 | November Side Talks. December 15 SEP. Parker introduces No. 021 jointless, a variant of No. 20 mounted with two gold bands in the barrel and Jointless 026. | |
| 1901 09 00 | Side Talks. Threaded end. Parker incorporates this option for fingers grap in screw joint pens. These pens could be made, optionally, with a smooth or threaded theaded section. | |
| 1901 03 22 | Sentence Waterman vs Parker Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. | |
| 1902 01 00 | Initials and names can be engraven in Parker Pens, either upon gold covering or upon the vulcanite itself (Side Talks. 1902) | |
| 1902 01 00 | Start Certificates of Membership “Lucky Curve” Club | |
| 1902 01 08 | First (?) Parker’s Convention. Six Parker’s travellers -Pilcher, Rider, Thomas, Weber, Colling, and Rohn- asist at a elaborate dinner at Geo. S. Parker home | |
| 1902 01 27 | Armand Frey, Berlin, -european manager- and G. Lowental, Paris -agent- visit Janesville as guests of Mr. And Mrs. Parker. | |
| 1902 04 09 | Geo. S. Parker attends to Century Pen meeting at Whiteweather. | |
| 1902 04 19 | 8,000 dealers. American Stationer | |
| 1902 04 00 | Parker Pen Co. puts into practice a system to reward employees’ seniority; five years, $50; ten years, $100, and twenty years, $200. | |
| 1902 04 00 | John Gollner (Iwan Göllner) entered Parker’s employ in charge of the foreign list. | |
| 1902 04 00 | ¡Ojo! Tiene imprint two lines 94 because litle hexagon faces. Parker introduces No. 023 Hexagon, $3.00. New. Just out. The coming favorite. | |
| 1902 05 00 | Bell-Shaped “Lucky Curve” feed. American Stationer. August in Side Talks. | |
| 1902 07 25 | 55 men employees in factory (JDG) | |
| 1902 09 00 | Paper boxes with a Milwaukee firm. Some $1,500 per year. | |
| 1902 10 00 | A Parker vest pocket pen, called the Bulldog Special, was introduced in USA. (October Side Talks. December Everybody’s Magazine) | |
| 1903 00 00 | 1903 the company established in Copenhagen, Denmark, its first overseas distributorship | |
| 1903 00 00 | Wright’s Janesville Directory: Palmer, president; Parker, secretary-treasurer. | |
| 1903 07 00 | Poster litograph 45×54 cm. “lady looking over her shoulder and holding in her hand a pen box” | |
| 1903 11 00 | The feed “Spear Head’’ overflow ink preventer in Side Talks | |
| 1903 11 00 | Side Talks introduces the first fountain pen (mod. 40) covered with solid gold. Also the #14 and #16 (November 1903 side talk), both filigree pens. They were offered either in Sterling Silver (#14) or 18k gold plate (#16). | |
| 1903 11 30 | Filed patent US758930 Self filler Click Filler -similar to Conklin Crescent-. No used. | |
| 1903 12 22 | The shape of a larger fountain pen new sign at the entrance of South Main factory. | |
| 1904 02 11 | To see Proxy March 25, 1920 written by Palmer. Increase capital stock to $100,000. Parker elected president. Palmer elected secretary-treasurer (H. Morrissey). Mr. Parker was elected president of the company and Mr. Palmer secretary and treasury. Formerly Mr. Palmer had been president and Mr. Parker, secretary and treasurer. (February 13, 1904 Janesville Daily Gazette) | |
| 1904 | GSP traveled to Florida and Cuba (History of Parker in Pennant Magazine) | |
| 1904 02 13 | 60 to 65 employees (Janesville Daily Gazette) | |
| 1904 02 13 | Parker increases capital stock to $100,000. Parker was elected President, and Palmer, secretary and treasurer. Formely Palmer had been President, and Parker secretary-treasurer. | |
| 1904 02 16 | The Parker Pen Co. and others (James Bunt, stock buyer and Eugene W. Lowell, president Lowell Hardware Co.) lease 160 acres and embark in zinc mining | |
| 1904 03 00 | Side Talks. Spear head with only a deep recess (notche) in feed | |
| 1904 03 14 | Louisiana Executive Committee aprovals Parker Pen exhibit | |
| 1904 05 09 | Filed patent US778997 Lucky Curve “Christmas tree” (incorporates recesses -notches- in the sides of the feed) | |
| 1904 05 16 | Parker sends his employees August Elser and Warren Clark to take charge of Company’s display at the St. Louis World Fair. | |
| 1904 06 07 | Parker sends his employees Joseph Flaherty and Ms. Mande Winship to Company’s display at the St. Louis World Fair. | |
| 1904 06 00 | In the second half of 1904, begin to use the «Lucky Curve» banner imprint. | |
| 1904 07 19 | Parker pen makes a deal to sell its pen in Chile (JDG) | |
| 1904 08 00 | Side Talks Louisiana World’s Fair. “If you go to St. Louis (and you ought) we want you to visit our “Exhibit” in charge of Mr. Colling. We have several workmen from our factory to show some of the many processes through which fountain pens go in process of manufacture.” | |
| 1904 10 15 | On October 15, the Final Jury Sessions of the Louisiana World’s Fair awarded Parker a Gold Medal of the Exhibition. | |
| 1904 12 20 | Trip. John Gollner returns from 5 weeks tour of Europe establishing agencies in London and continental countries. JDG. Galalith-Casein. John Gollner, an exile from Serbia an Parker General Superintendent accounting department at the beginning of the century (1928 Proxy). Went to Germany – returned with galalith porous material only apt for self filler. (Parker Ivorine Pens, later) | |
| 1905 00 00 | Parker reports in their 1905 catalog that 3,000,000 people carry the Parker pen. | |
| 1905 01 23 | Filed patent US791466 Click filler. Edward M. Heylman (agricultural machinery builder in Janesville) | |
| 1905 02 | Side Talks presents for the first time the Spear Head Feed with three deep recesses as a “Christmas tree. | |
| 1905 02 | Parker introduces two new pens No. 23 1/2, and No. 24, Falcon | |
| 1905 04 11 | Filed patent US787152 Button Filler patent granted to John T. Davison of Brooklyn, Kings, N.Y. (GSP speaks about Mr. Pikard??). I don’t know the year GSP bought this patent. | |
| 1905 09 00 | Self-filler (click-filler) was first offered to the trade in the September 1905 Side Talks (to see Side Talks October). There are no known ads in newspapers or magazines for this fountain pen | |
| 1905 10 00 | 10,000 dealers (Side Talks October 1905) | |
| 1905 10 00 | We have gotten out a very handsome box for the Christmas trade. The box is covered with a beautiful design in holly leaves and berries colors. On the top is placed this inscription: “Merry Christmas. Geo. S. Parker Lucky Curve Fountain Pen and with it my best wishes. From……” | |
| 1905 10 00 | Parker introduces model No. 15. One of the prettiest in the Parker line of fancy pens. Mother Pearl barrel with gold bands, and gold filigree on cap. Name plate, so the name of owner can be engraved on same. Also No. 28 in respond to a demand for “the largest pen you make.” | |
| 1905 12 30 | Parker 60 employees. Janesville Weekly Gazette | |
| 1906 01 20 | Parker Pen Co. experimenting with new substance “Galalith” trying substitute costly hard rubber | |
| 1906 02 00 | Side Talks presents the #24 and #25 numbers, so far only plain, now offered they in a chased version too. | |
| 1906 06 27 | William Fink Palmer and Geo. S. Parker in Baxter Mining Co. Darlintong-Lafayette | |
| 1906 08 20 | Filed patent US854584 Disappearing clip. Arnold Martinelli. New Jersey. It was introduced in August 1908 Side Talks | |
| 1906 09 00 | Parker presents nums. 37 and 38 Snake models. | |
| 1906 09 00 | Parker presents the Emblem pen. The emblem is on solid (not plated) gold band. Makes a fine present for some secret order man. Prices $12.00 each for K. of P., of C., I. O. O. F., Elks, Blue Lodie Chapter, Shrine, Knight Temple ( last two $12.50 ) and others. | |
| 1906 09 00 | Side Talks Parker Pen introduces the new models #33 (a gold filled filigree in barrel and cap crown) and #35, with both cap and barrel covered in gold-filled metal 18k gold plated overlay pen with a floral design. The number #36 was its Sterling silver version. Both pens was offered in two sizes, a Ladie’s and a Gentlemen’s pen. | |
| 1906 09 00 | The #31, priced at $7.50, was a large size pen with Sterling Silver leaf and vine filigree on both the cap and the barrel. the #32, it was similar to the #14 but with a more intricate filigree on the cap and barrel. | |
| 1907 01 00 | By January 1907, a new building was planned at 200-204 E Milwaukee, to house both Parker Pen and the Janesville Gazette. This building was finished at the end of 1908. | |
| 1907 | GSP traveled to Vermont and Canada (History of Parker in Pennant Magazine) | |
| 1907 | 42½, 41, 43, 44, 100 Parker introduces double nib Bookkeeper pen | |
| 1907 01 09 | 60 employees, $25,000 payroll year. $5,000 December ads. Janesville_Weekly_Gazette_1907_01_09_Page_2 | |
| 1907 05 18 | Parker Pen Co. employees decided to have a Baseball team | |
| 1907 05 23 | Parker Pen Co. comtemplates building a new factory on Milwaukee St. | |
| 1907 05 23 | Parker employs sixty 60 persons. JDG | |
| 1907 11 20 | the Baxter Mining Co., and the American Lead and Zinc Co. In 1907 they contributed to the initial public offering shares of the Consolidated Zinc Co., Chicago | |
| 1908 02 00 | Cap Fast Clip in Side Talks. Parker could apply to its pens the clip patented by Levi Van Valkenburg to the cap by special machinery, at an additional cost of 25 c. nickel and 50 c. gold covered. This clip was marked “Parker VV Pat. Feb. 12, 07″. | |
| 1908 02 00 | «The Red Giant». Parker announced to its dealers that they were preparing to place this pen on the market (Side Talks) | |
| 1908 02 01 | Parker Side Talks had a print run of 23,000 copies and 4-page circulars had a run of 46,000 copies, printed at the Janesville Daily Gazette Printing Department (February 1, 1908, JDG). | |
| 1908 05 07 | The printing department of the Janesville Gazette informs that the edition of Side Talks, printed in two colors and eight pages, reaches 25,000 copies. They are sent to agents, dealers, and foreign countries. | |
| 1908 08 00 | Parker employed more than 108 people (JDG) | |
| 1908 08 00 | Parker introduces in Side Talks the Level-Lock clip; the Disappearing clip. | |
| 1908 09 12 | $6,000 cost of the SEP ad double page, according with “Bookseller and Stationer”. | |
| 1908 12 00 | Ad with No. 45. Lucky Curve alternating corrugated mother-of-pearl and/or abalone slabs, with a gold band holding a Galalith-casein pearl in place, and the Cap with the Colored Crown colored disc of Galalith-casein | |
| 1908 12 31 | Finished building at Milwaukee corner with Bluff Streets for Parker Factory (Gazette Building) | |
| 1909 00 00 | 1909 Parker production $202,000 and capital 100,000. Source Rock County a new history of its cities… | |
| 1909 00 00 | From Jointless Home South Main Street to Gazette Building (H. Morrissey). Sanborn map 1909 February Parker still in South Main St. The company also rents more space in other East Milwaukee Street office buildings to keep up demand (JDG Century) | |
| 1909 04 10 | $800 ad for litle in SEP | |
| 1909 05 01 | Parker change office furniture | |
| 1909 06 | We are now prepared to furnishing Nos. 20, 23, 24 and 25 in red barrel. Try one or two in your next order. Side Talks | |
| 1909 07 00 | Side Talks. Parker introduces the Jack Knife Safety pen. With an unmistakable cap top denominated by actual collectors as the «Turban top». First ad 1909 09 18 SEP. The Fra, March 1910. | |
| 1909 07 00 | Side Talks. Parker introduces School and College pens. The cap with the colored crown. A idea aimed at students who are loyal to their School and College colors, these caps was offered at an extra 10 cents, two colors an extra 25 cents. | |
| 1909 07 31 | Filed patent US1028382 Safety Cap. Witness Helen Morrissey. | |
| 1909 12 00 | First Parker Safety ad (The Fra). The new safety (non leakable) Jack-Knife Parker (Hampton’s Magazine) | |
| 1910 00 00 | 71 employees (H. Morrissey) | |
| 1910 01 00 | Side Talks. In 1910 two new models were supplied with a good luck symbol design, as it was the Swastika. A good luck symbol from millennia Indian Sanskrit culture. These fountain pens were finished in a sterling hammered overlay, model #52, for $12.00, and the #53 Swastika furnished in 18k gold overlay for $15.00. | |
| 1910 03 10 | Kenneth Parker to sail for Germany to spend eighten months in German training school. Janesville Daily Gazette | |
| 1910 05 00 | Jack Knife Safety pen with cup shape. Side Talks | |
| 1910 06 16 | Filed patent US990288. Improvement Lucky Curve feed IV. Witness Helen Morrissey. | |
| 1910 winter | George S. Parker traveled to Mexico Santa Fe (Parkergram August 1911 narrating Awanyu Aztec) | |
| 1911 01 16 | 75 employees in banquet at Myers (Janesville Daily Gazette) | |
| 1911 07 08 | Filed patent US1078513 Thumb filler. Not used by Parker. Century manufactured thumb pens. | |
| 1911 08 00 | Side Talks. Awanyu Aztec. The design features an 18k gold filled surface delicately hammered by hand with symbols and the head of an Aztec Indian depicted on the barrel and cap. The fountain pen was manufactured in sterling silver – model 59 – for $ 16.00. Model 60 in 18k gold was $ 20.00. There are «half» versions -models 57 and 58-, with the caps in exposed hard rubber crowned by a band with Aztec motifs in silver and gold, respectively, at the price of $ 10.00 and $ 12.00. | |
| 1911 08 00 | The level-lock clip. The clip that disappears in Side Talk. 15c. | |
| 1911 08 00 | Helen Morrissey and Gollner are in Gazette Building factory (see Side Talks). Soon after Gollner returned to Europe and settled in Stuttgart. | |
| 1912 00 00 | Parker introduced mod. #39, a magnificent pen with a cap and barrel covered with an 18K heavy gold plate. Its price was $20.00. Beautifully worked with a pattern of forget-me-nots, each set with semi-precious stones and pearls. The end of the cap was made flat, so it can be engraved for a seal. There is a second version, mod. #54, without stones, at the price of $12.00 | |
| 1912 03 00 | Side Talks. Full-Length Safeties. This year Parker have now done; all of the regular safety styles may now be supplied with regular length barrels. Silhouette of the Jack-Knife sections concave | |
| 1912 09 23 | Kenneth Parker to Howe Military Academy, Indiana, secondary school | |
| 1913 00 00 | W. F. Palmer was again elected to the board of the Century Pen Co. and became vice president. | |
| 1913 00 00 | New York Office opened in the Singer Building, at 14 Broadway. | |
| 1913 00 00 | Black Giant introduced (1913 catalog -because there are not button filler-) | |
| 1913 06 summer | The silhouette of the Jack-Knife sections becomes concave | |
| 1913 06 00 | Kenneth Parker, Bruce Jeffris and two friend travel to Europe | |
| 1913 08 01 | Kenneth Parker remain in Stuttgart “until September” JDG | |
| 1913 09 13 | Introduction of button filler (ad The Cornell Daily Sun). Initially, the Parker “Press the Button’* Self Filling Pen was made in both standard and safety.The safely differs from the standard In having a screw cap instead of a slip cap. | |
| 1914 00 00 | Company No. 136784; Parker Pen Company Ltd. Incorporated in 1914. Dissolved between 1916… | |
| 1914 00 00 | Russell Parker, came into the business (book) | |
| 1914 00 00 | Ivorine. We got one shipment of casein galalith from Germany just before or at the time the war broke out. n 1913, with the introduction of the button-filler system, and the internal rubber sac, Parker began the production of holders fully manufactured from brightly colored Galalith which they commercially called Ivorines | |
| 1914 03 00 | George, Martha and Virginia leave for Mediterranean trip. They visit… | |
| 1914 03 00 | Side Talks introduces Bakelite. We are going to make them in the Nos. 20, 23, 24, and 25. Each transparent pen will sell for $1.00 more than the corresponding number in a rubber barrel. | |
| 1914 05 20 | George arrived alone at New York, New York, USA in the Oceanic ship on 20 May 1914, from Europe (Southampton) | |
| 1914 07 26 | Martha and Virginia sailed for America. Their itinerary included the Madeira Islands, Gibraltar, Algeria, Monte Carlo, Italy—Rome, Naples, Genoa, Pompeii—Egypt, Germany, and Denmark, among other countries. Kenneth will remain in Europe “six months longer” JDG | |
| 1916 00 00 | W.F. Palmer is replaced in Century Pen Co. After 1916, neither Palmer nor Parker were on the board nor served as officers, although they will remain as shareholders. | |
| 1916 05 24 | Filed patent US1197224 Washer clip. William Moore received royalty for 17 years (H. Morrissey). | |
| 1916 11 00 | First ad Safety cap without “turban” ideal for washer clip | |
| 1917 00 00 | Chicago Office opened | |
| 1917 01 00 | Side Talks presents the Washer clip. Ad February 12, 1917 The Independent. | |
| 1917 04 16 | Kenneth left Brown University, as second year student, and enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve Force in Newport, Rhode Island | |
| 1917 11 06 | Kenneth Parker army instructor in the new rifles use to State Guard. | |
| 1918 00 00 | New York Wholesale Division opened | |
| 1918 06 00 | KP is transfer to Pensacola, for more flying and landing practice, though with more advanced training to cover such things as night flying, bomb-dropping, and what he called “big boat flying”. | |
| 1918 12 12 | KP, while instructing a student in spins, crashed his Curtis N-9 in Bahia Pensacola after an uninterrupted spin of 5,800 feet. Both, miraculously, suffered only minor injuries. “He took a serious fall, dropping over a mile almost in a perpendicular line into the ocean. Only a broken nose, a good many bruises and some cuts and a misplaced vertebra o two.” Proxy. “He had the fall of more a mile out of the air and falling into the water.” Proxy 1923 | |
| 1919 01 00 | GSP speaks on a Meeting of Fountain Pen Manufacturers (Proxy) | |
| 1919 03 00 | Production being around 3,000 pens a day (Proxy 1919) | |
| 1919 03 00 | Ground broken for Court and Division Street factory (factory explanatory brochure ) | |
| 1919 02 00 | Kenneth Parker working in Lord and Thomas advertising agency of Chicago. Lord & Thomas had been working for Parker for years, to see Side Talks May 1898. | |
| 1919 07 00 | A short time ago Christian Olsen in USA with GSP (Parkergrams July, 1919) | |
| 1919 09 05 | Filed patent US1350983. Pencil Blackman, sales manager (for himself; non assigned to Parker Pen Co.) “Horace Blackman invented the Parker pencil” (JDG January 15,1921) | |
| 1919 09 25 | Proxy Six Epochs of Writing | |
| 1919 09 25 | Camphor to prevent tarnshing (Proxy) | |
| 1919 10 00 | New Pressure Bar (Proxy) | |
| 1919 10 00 | Kenneth Parker in Janesville as Assistant Advertising Manager (Proxy) | |
| 1919 12 00 | New number Parker Bakelite No. 71 gold bang and ring for bridesmaids. Explained in Proxy | |
| 1920 01 01 | New List Prices on Mounted Goods after New York rent strikes Effective Jan. 1st (Proxy December 1919) 6-9-14-16-21-32-33-34-42-48-49-28-50-51-61-62-65-66-70-95-96-98-99 | |
| 1920 01 01 | Advertising Schedule of 1920 for $100,000 (Proxy December 1919) | |
| 1920 00 00 | Officers George president, Russell vicepresident, W.F. Palmer secretary-treasurer, Blackman Sales Manager, Kenneth advertising manager. Bernard M. Palmer, collection manager and assitant secretary. Morrissey office supervisor; John McDonough general factory superintendent Arthur Walsh foreman factory no 1. Don McLaughlin foreman factory no. 2 and Frank Byrme setting and assembling dept: 311 employees (H. Morrissey). “300 in factory, 100 in its officces, and 50 salesman on the road” (JDG Jan 15, 1921). | |
| 1920 04 21 | Century Pen Co. Palmer and Parker remain shareholders because they subscribe 53 shares each by capital increase for a stock dividend | |
| 1920 06 00 | New numbers models No. 201, 202, 203, 204, and 205 (Proxy May 1920) | |
| 1920 08 00 | Metal new styles. We have just recontly liad some new styles. sterling silver, 14 K heavy gold plate and some in solid gold. The pens with the solid gold barrel and cap retail at $35.00. (August 1920. Parkergrams) | |
| 1920 08 00 | Parker increases capital stock from $100,000 to 1,500,000. Officers George president, Russell vicepresident, W.F. Palmer secretary-treasurer, Blackman Sales Manager, Kenneth advertising manager. Bernard M. Palmer, collection manager and assitant secretary. | |
| 1920 09 00 | In Parkergrams ads and November in Rotarian ad, Parker say to have 285 styles of Parker pens | |
| 1920 11 00 | Ivorines in Proxy | |
| 1920 11 00 | The new factory is all right for occupancy November 1920 Parkergrams. Finished Court and Division Street factory (factory explanatory brochure ) | |
| 1920 12 00 | “In December the company moved to its modern $375,000 new home in Court…sales $1,500,000 (JDG January 15, 1921) | |
| 1921 00 00 | From here Century Pen Co began its decline until its total liquidation in 1938. There is no dividend and salaries are lowered year after year. | |
| 1921 04 28 | George Parker delegates in Russell for the Century meeting | |
| 1921 08 00 | When the Duofold was first launched, last August…Proxy 1922 | |
| 1921 08 04 | GSP speaks on Duofold | |
| 1921 10 01 | Filed patent US1484683. Self filler. Lewis Tebbel. No used. | |
| 1921 11 00 | Duofold. National advertising campaign begins. Parkergrams, Saturday Evening Post, Office Appliances, The Rotarian, Geyer’s Stationer, etc. | |
| 1921 11 00 | Parkergrams speak on Lucky Lock Pencil. Parker put on the market their “Lucky Lock Pencil” August 1921. | |
| 1921 11 00 | Parkergrams present Duofold pen | |
| 1921 11 07 | Filed patent US1632371. “Lucky Lock” Pencil with eraser and extra leads chamber. George Gilman. | |
| 1921 12 13 | Office Appliances and others Trip. Mr. Parker star his first long export trip getting nucleus of the Business started and planted in London, Agency estabished in Italy, Next over to the Orient – to India, Procedure was to acquaint himself first with the American Consul, who would In turn Introduce him to Bankers and the Businessmen* This procedure followed in Bombay, Calcutta, Ceylon and eventually Java, Australia, China and the Phillipines. Pleasant Business recollections | |
| 1922 00 00 | There are eyedropper (self-filler or regular) 1922 with eyedropper United Cigar Stores premium catalog in my Ads folder | |
| 1922 01 00 | The minute we discontinued shipping pencil… Attleboro pencil factory is dismantled. Machinery, Gilman and Guyot in Janesville. Complete Court top floor factory will be utilized for pencil production (Proxy) | |
| 1922 01 00 | Mr. Parker appointed W.E. Knight. Norfolf street, Strand, London, to represent the Parker Pen Co. in the British Isles. (Office Appliances Feb. 1922) | |
| 1922 03 30 | Parker Junior and Lady in Proxy. Duofold De Luxe and Junior De Luxe later added as annexes to this catalog | |
| 1922 05 (spring) | Parker completed catalog of 64 pages. The book open with interesting descriptions and illustrations of manufacturing operations (Office Appliances, July 1922). | |
| 1922 06 08 | (To see Proxy) In any case, before GSP arrived. Contract with the Saturday Evening Post for thirteen colores pages to be used every four weeks for one year at a cost of $110.500. This contract would be extended in frequency and would last for many years. I had been home I would have vetoed the proposition for -a man of my age does not have quite the same enthusiasm that the younger fellows have. Perhaps not the same vision. Anyhow, now that it’s settled, I am rather glad it has been done. Again, it brings YOU in the foreground for inasmuch as YOU WANTED IT DONE, the responsibility is yours. “Responsibilities gravitate toward those whose shoulders are broad enough to bear them”. It the next few months will disclose whether there are shoulders that are too narrow to assume the responsability incurred by the contracting of $110.000 in the Saturday Evening Post. Sales Manager Blackman thinks he has a bunch of “thoroughbreds” that are as “clean as a hound’s tooth” and that every man will give a good account of himself. | |
| 1922 07 18 | George arrived in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA on 18 July 1922 | |
| 1922 07 27 | Mr. Parker arrived Janesville. Welcomed home by 350 employes (Janesville Daily Gazette) | |
| 1922 08 00 | Parker manufacture metal pens. Mr. Gilman has given the metal pens. Duettes. Proxy August and December 1922. …I wonder if you realize how much time and thought on Mr. Gilman has given the metal pens in making them absolutely the best thing of their kind on the market? | |
| 1922 09 01 | Filed patent US1486246 Duofold button and pressure bar | |
| 1922 11 00 | Parker Duette gold filled pen and pecil set were introduced. | |
| 1922 12 16 | Duofold De Luxe and Junior De Luxe wide rolled gold or solid gold cap bands were introduced in Saturday Evening Post. | |
| 1922 12 21 | Filed patent US1647093. Clip | |
| 1923 01 02 | Star 1923 Parker Convention | |
| 1923 01 20 | Duofold with girdle cap band – Proxy . Discussed somewhat at the Convention. Written in Proxy same time of stationers Banquet (Later January 1923) | |
| 1923 02 00 | Trip GSP to Mexico Cuba Panama Argentina Chile Brasil (“this will probably take three months”) | |
| 1923 02 10 | Flashing Black added to Duofold line. Saturday Everning Post ad. Already discussed in the January Convention according 1923 Proxys. | |
| 1923 06 00 | Added gold girdle cap band to Duofold (Proxy). First ad SEP August 25. | |
| 1923 03 17 | Filed patent US1492451. Improvement Duofold with double pressure bar. | |
| 1923 05 31 | George arrived in the Vestris ship New York, New York, USA on 31 May 1923 | |
| 1923 07 28 | First ad. Established a factory in rented quarters in Toronto, Canada. Founded Sept. 10, 1923 and | |
| 1923 09 00 | Parker D.Q. Duofold Quality ad in Office Appliances. In other doc. “You must show skill and caution in handling the D.Q. or it will cut into your Duofold business” | |
| 1923 11 01 | Trip. G. S. Parker, president of the Parker Pen Company, Janesville, Wisconsin, with his wife and daughter, are touring the Orient. The Parkers sail from San Francisco November 8 the SS. “President Grant,” arriving at Kobe, Japan, November 23. A stop route will be made at Honolulu. in the itinerary are: Seoul, Corea, Peking, China, care Grand Hotel de Peking December 7-18; Shanghai, China, care Astor Hote!, December 22-28; Manila, P. I., care Manila Hotel, December 30 to January 8; Melbourne, Austraiia, care Bank Australasia, January 27 to February 1; Sydney, Australia, care Bank of Australasia, February 1 to February 8; Batavia, Java, care Koenings Plein Hotel, February 27 to March 8 Singapore, Straits Settlements, care Hotel de Europe, March 10-17; Rangoon, India, care Oriental Hotel, Marchn22; Calcutta, India, care Great Eastern Hotel, March 27 to April 1; Lucknow, India, care Carlton Hotel, April 4;Delhi, India, care Hotel Cecil, April 10; Bombay, India, care Taj Mahal hotel, April 17. Aden, Arabia, care Ameri can consul, April 27. Port Said, Egypt, care American consul, May 5; Rome, Italy, care American consul, May 12 Stuttgart, Germany, care John Gollner, Box 228, May 17. Mr. Parker was through the East about a year ago. | |
| 1924 00 00 | Printing Plant out of the factory for more space. | |
| 1924 04 05 | Duofold pencil to match the Duofold pen. SEP ad. | |
| 1924 08 00 | In England for launching the Parker Pen Co. Limited are Mr. Kenneth S. Parker, Advertising Manager Mr. H. L. Blackman, Sales Manager and Mr. L. A. Crowell, of the firm of Benson, Gamble & Crowell, who handle our national advertising. PKG | |
| 1924 08 27 | English subsidiary started (Morrissey). Decision Great Britain Summer of 1924, Kenneth, Mr, Blackman, Don Korst and George S, Parker went to London. | |
| 1924 10 05 | Kenneth Parker in Europe. October 5 arrivals to NY port. Kenneth arrivals in the Stutgartt ship from Europe (Southampton) | |
| 1924 12 13 | Duofold “Big Bro” pencil to match the over-size Duofold Senior pen. SEP ad. | |
| 1925 00 00 | 740 employees (H. Morrissey) | |
| 1925 00 00 | Parker spend $1,000,000 in advertising | |
| 1925 01 00 | Don McLauglin Superintendent of the Rubber Deparment, made a suggestion in regard to the stamping (imprint) that is used on the holder being more compact and less conspicuous, so that it will more nearly resemble the stamping on the Big Brother pencil. Mr. Gilman has taken up and dies have been holders will look very much better and the stamping very much more inconspicuous than at present. | |
| 1925 01 00 | Fom Convention a Research Department has been inugurated with Mr. Gilman as Executive in charge. | |
| 1925 00 00 | 1925. Kenneth Parker travel to Europe. Kenneth Parker arrivals in Homeric ship | |
| 1925 03 00 | 1st trimestre. Research Department inaugurated with Mr. George W. Gilman as Executive in charge. | |
| 1925 03 00 | Launching Black Line pens pens mounted with gold bands and gold clips. Then Black & Gold line. This pen supercedes the DQ Pen, it is possible that you will get calls for this pen with DQ nibs, merely add the “DQ’‘ after the catalog number and shipment will be.made accordingly. | |
| 1925 04 00 | Celluloid Permanite, a non-breakable material, added for Duofold. | |
| 1925 10 00 | Parker Pen Co. Stocks public offering. “oversubscribed by one hundred thousand dollars” | |
| 1925 10 27 | Star GSP trip. Geyer’s stationer August 1926. Departure on the long journey. (Egypt, Ceylon, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China and Japan) | |
| 1925 12 00 | Parker doubles advertising in Saturday Evening Post. 26 pages a year, and half of them to be on the inside from cover. | |
| 1926 01 00 | San Francisco Office opened | |
| 1926 01 11 | George S. Parker in Egypt (to see Our stay in Cairo, Proxy 1926) | |
| 1926 01 26 | Filed patent US1793610. Desk set receptacle. Guyot. | |
| 1926 04 01 | Start to shipment Green Jade pens. First ad as Pastel Shades line; no Duofold for not contaminating this last line. Senior as “Jade Lucky Curve Pen” June 05, Liberty Magazine ad. Petite pens Pastel Shades at $3.50, include Mottled Green (Jade) at $5.00. | |
| 1926 04 15 | Star to shipment desk sets. First ad September 4, Saturday Evening Post. | |
| 1926 05 21 | FOURTH trip to the Orient. Trip Geo. S. Parker trip “third tour of the world”. This day in Shanghai (The China Weekly Review). 1927 “I recently returned home after an absence of nine months from the United States. A good portion of my FOURTH trip to the Orient was spent in Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China and Japan.” | |
| 1926 07 08 | Filed patent US1705656. Folding desk socket. Horace Blackman, Sales manager and Palmer’s son-in-law. | |
| 1926 08 19 | Filed patent US1629987. Rotating desk socket. Horace Blackman. | |
| 1926 10 01 | Filed patent US1669036 Gripping in desk socket. Blackman | |
| 1926 10 16 | Filed patent US1669040. Improvement Blackman socket. | |
| 1927 00 00 | Russell and Kenneth Parker travel to Europe. They return in Berengaria ship. | |
| 1927 00 00 | 1927 Josef Lamy in charge of Parker Janesville Export Department. (Proxy). 1927 Chas J. Lamy, manager, resident at 509 5th Avenue, Janesville. (Janesville directory) | |
| 1927 01 05 | Parker decides to market Patrician made from seconds. Lamy reported | |
| 1927 01 22 | Filed patent US1720717. Pencil. | |
| 1927 02 09 | Meeting in Chicago promoted by GSP between Parker, Sheaffer’S, Waterman, Wahl, Conklin, and Mabie-Todd. | |
| 1927 03 02 | George Parker delegates in Palmer for the Century meeting. Morrissey delegation witness. | |
| 1927 04 00 | Chinese (Mandarin) Yellow new color added (Proxy). First ad June 04, Liberty and SEP next to Lapis Lazuli color. Beging shipment May 13. | |
| 1927 04 01 | Duofold Guarantee forever. First cost, Last cost, Only cost ad. Letter GSP “Free repair of all Duofold pens policy effective April 1, 1927”. | |
| 1927 04 06 | Filed patent US1674271-US1674270-1674259 Pencil desk socket Bernard M. Palmer | |
| 1927 04 16 | Begining shipment New desk set with gold-plated ball and Socket with gold band. New Gold-filled Band on Desk Pen Taper. | |
| 1927 11 10 | Filed patent US1819383 III Improvement pressure bar button filler Duofold | |
| 1928 01 00 | Kenneth Parker, Bernard Palmer and Josef Lamy traveled to Germany to complete Osmia negotiations | |
| 1928 01 00 | Donald McLaughlin, Janesville superintendent, at the end of January arrived Hilderberg to oversee production and install new machinery in the Osmia plant. | |
| 1928 01 00 | Trip. GSP Poscard from Cairo to Ms. Sager | |
| 1928 03 29 | Kenneth Parker in London (first phone call linking Janesville with a foreign city, KP calls his wife from London | |
| 1928 04 00 | Osmia. Parker purchases the controlling interest in the second largest fountain pen company in Germany. This Company, known as Parker A. G. with a subsidiary known as Osmia G. M. B. H. | |
| 1928 04 11 | Parker made arrangement to put out a $10 Duofold Black & Pearl. Delivery about June first. Proxy | |
| 1928 04 18 | KP lunch with Crowell and Pfanstiehl, chemist | |
| 1928 04 27 | Dahlberg unexpectedly visit Janesville with his sacless self-filling (vacumatic) pen. KP’s Journal | |
| 1928 05 00 | Lamy and Böhler managers in Osmia. | |
| 1928 05 24 | Filed patent US1782597 Dispensing cabinet. Blackman | |
| 1928 06 16 | Formal opening and dedication of Janesville Kempton-Dudley airport. Kenneth Parker with his presence and work belonging actively into the general Committee of the American Legion planes, for this June 1928 Dedicate Airport Beacon Light, at the beginning of the “air era” in Janesville. | |
| 1928 06 20 | Proxy. Slip sections, so is not necessary unscrew the section- | |
| 1928 07 00 | Parkergrams presents Modernistic “Blue-and-White”, True Blue color | |
| 1928 07 00 | William Palmer resigns and sell 75,000 of their 100,000 shares. | |
| 1928 07 03 | Dahlberg visit Janesville unexpectedly | |
| 1928 07 12 | Dahlberg pens prototypes (12) arrived to factory. (KP Journal) | |
| 1928 08 07 | Kenneth Parker, made a 405 mile business trip; over four states in 12 hours. Taking off from the Janesville airport at 7 a. m. in a Waco biplane of the Kempton Dudley Flying service, with Col. Jenkins at the stick | |
| 1928 08 23 | GSP speaks on desk set “animal line” and a hundred desk set work of art and better than the last year | |
| 1928 09 00 | Parkergrams presents Black and Pearl pens and pencils. November 03 SEP double page ad. | |
| 1928 09 11 | Days 11, 14 and 15 meeting Dahlberg-Jeffris-KP about patent purchase. Eventually, on 15 September the negotiations broke down. KP’s Journal. Dahlberg did not visit Janesville newly until 1931 | |
| 1928 09 14 | Filed patent US1904358 Dahlberg Vacumatic | |
| 1928 09 14 | First ad modernistic blue and white $3.50. | |
| 1928 09 18 | Demonstrations by a representative of the Fairchild monoplane company were given to officials of the Parker Pen Company. These taken up were George S. Parker, president of the pen company, Kenneth Parker, advertising manager, Mrs. Kenneth Parker, and B. M. Palmer, credit manager. | |
| 1928 10 29 | Parker’s Executive Committee approval the purchase of a Fairchild FC-2W2 aeroplane | |
| 1928 11 00 | Mr. Palmer sold 75% of his holdings to A. G. Becker & Co., Chicago. They, in turn, offered the Palmer stock to the public and had it listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange. | |
| 1928 11 00 | John Gollner visits Janesville. GSP said “Id addition to running his own business, he represents this company in looking after the interests of the German subsidiary several times a month, and he does it well. His long experience in business nominates him as a valuable man in this connection. | |
| 1928 11 25 | The Parker Fairchild plane was christened «Parker Duofold» in Chicago airport by the famous pioneer of air Amelia Earhart | |
| 1928 12 26 | Pen Desk Set Company Incorporation | |
| 1929 00 00 | Kenneth Parker arrives in Aquitania ship | |
| 1929 02 04 | They decided to put Streamlined line in production. Trip. GSP and wife very busy ready to go to South America (KP Journal) | |
| 1929 02 09 | Filed patent US1821477. Sacless filling mechanism. KP. No used | |
| 1929 02 09 | February 9th, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Parker sailed from New York aboard the S. S. Western World of the Munsen Line for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| 1929 02 11 | Filed patent US1793824 sacless self-filler mechanism KP. No used. Inspired by Dahlberg, in 1929 KP filed two applications for sacless, self-filling pens where the barrel provided the ink reservoir. | |
| 1929 03 15 | Filed patent US1801635 Sac one stroke vacuum. Similar to later Sheaffer’S touchdown. William Edgar Moore = Washer clip | |
| 1929 03 00 | Kenneth Parker travel to Europe. Problems with German business. He returns in Aquitania ship | |
| 1929 04 18 | KP meeting with Scott Baker at office. He has what seems to be just the ink we want (see one year ago-talk with Pfanstiehl) | |
| 1929 04 00 | Geo. S. Parker returns from South America (Industry Trade Journal) | |
| 1929 05 08 | Pen Desk Set Co. meeting in Chicago. George Parker and W. Sheaffer present (KP Journal). | |
| 1929 05 20 | Kenneth Parker flews to Sheaffer factory (KPJ) | |
| 1929 06 17 | Craig Sheaffer visits Parker Janesville factory, staying with him in his house (KPJ) | |
| 1929 07 00 | Streamlined present in Parkergrams. Proxy: “Mr. K. S. Parker who is responsible for the idea of the streamline pen and pencil struck an idea in pen making that seems to grew in importance as time goes on.” | |
| 1929 07 00 | Socket desk set. New clutch | |
| 1929 07 05 | Filed patentUS1772000 streamlined pen desk socket. Guyot | |
| 1929 07 00 | Osmia losses continue. Zoccola is put in charge in an attempt to save the business. | |
| 1929 07 31 | Kenneth Parker bought his first private aircraft, a Consolidated Fleet Model 1 | |
| 1929 08 01 | Trio. Pen, pencil, and Knife | |
| 1929 08 07 | Filed patent design USD81254. Streamlined. KP | |
| 1929 09 00 | Parkergrams First ads with Streamline shape pens and sockets | |
| 1929 09 26 | Filed patent US1818743. Adjustable feed. KP. No used. | |
| 1929 10 07 | October 7 is inauguration day for the desk set campaign | |
| 1929 10 24 | Crack Wall Street | |
| 1929 11 15 | Filed patent US1917568. Filling system. No used. | |
| 1929 11 27 | KP All day meeting decided on several important improvement in new pen. | |
| 1929 12 00 | Kenneth Parker in Heidelberg with Bruce Jeffris. Order to close Heidelberg factory. | |
| 1930 00 00 | 745 employees (H. Morrissey). | |
| 1930 00 00 | George departed Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA in 1930. | |
| 1930 00 00 | George departed Rio De Janeiro in 1930. | |
| 1930 01 23 | Filed patent GB318982 Dahlberg Vacumatic in United Kingdom. | |
| 1930 00 00 | Kenneth and Jeffris arrives in Paris ship. | |
| 1930 02 01 | KP vacation with the Crowells in Bermuda. Trip. GSP paid (KP Journal). | |
| 1930 02 00 | Parkergrams presents Vest-Parker Duofold Pens and Pencils to match are the very late vogue. Ideal for golf or bridge, since they are small enough for any vest pocket or womans handbag.. First ad SEP April 05, 1930. | |
| 1930 03 03 | Committe Executive decided to sell Fairchild plane (KP Journal). | |
| 1930 03 12 | Committe Executive decided to reduce March advertising by $18.000 (KP Journal). | |
| 1930 04 25 | Parker’s Executive Committee decided to sell the Fairchild. After fifteen months, the plane had traveled an estimated 100,000 miles and carried some 15,000 passengers. | |
| 1930 05 20 | KP visit Sheaffer’S factory all day. Assit Mr. Pollard, Sheaffer attorney (KP Journal page 193 Duofold book). | |
| 1930 06 04 | Filed patent US1860093 Pen desk socket. Guyot. | |
| 1930 06 17 | Craig Sheaffer visits Parker factory staying with KP in his home. (KP Journal). | |
| 1930 06 28 | Filed patent US1892145 Pencil. Guyot. | |
| 1930 07 00 | Kenneth Parker, delivering the Consolidated as part payment, bought an exclusive two-place open tandem biplane Verville «AT» Sport Trainer. | |
| 1930 07 26 | First ad SEP Green and Pearl color. | |
| 1930 11 00 | Parker Club House. | |
| 1930 12 00 | Parkergrams introduces the Everett Worthington desk set. | |
| 1931 01 09 | GSP sails for Japan (Proxy). | |
| 1931 01 10 | SEP $12,000 ad. Everett Worthington desk base (Proxy). | |
| 1931 02 07 | Trip. Geo. S. Parker trip Arrived Shanghai (The China Weekly Review). | |
| 1931 02 20 | Filed patent US1972395. New Quink colored. | |
| 1931 02 24 | Filed patent US1932248. New Quink drying. | |
| 1931 02 25 | Rented quarters for the ink business tobacco warehouse opposite Northwestern railroad station. | |
| 1931 03 02 | Filed design patent USD87792. Holder in ringed celluloid. Preamble of ringed vacumatic. Russell Parker. | |
| 1931 03 16 | Another cut in advertising today (KP Journal). | |
| 1931 04 04 | First ad new color Burgundy and Black (Proxy March 25 speaking on reorders). | |
| 1931 04 08 | Filed patent US1853876 Desk set socket KP. | |
| 1931 04 10 | Deal with Joseph Platt, $6,000/year more expenses. | |
| 1931 04 17 | Filed patent US1958084 Pen desk bases withs statuettes, ash trays, calendars, clocks, name plates, cigar lighters, etc. Ivan Tefft. | |
| 1931 04 23 | Signed pre-contract with Dahlberg. GSP returned from China. | |
| 1931 05 05 06 | Kenneth Parker visits and “long talks” with the Sheaffers in Fort Madison (KP Journal). | |
| 1931 05 13 | “Quink is at last going on the market” (Proxy). It is the ink that cost this Company $31.430,92. “Quink was introduced in April, 1931; shipment started June. 1931.” First ad in SEP July 25. “after three years of research and experinent and the expenditure of $68,000 (circa 1940)”. | |
| 1931 05 28 | Started producing ink today. KPJ. | |
| 1931 06 04 | Filed patent US1920770. Pencil. KP & Ivan Tefft. Eye! To see pencil $1.00. | |
| 1931 07 00 | Campaing Old stock Gold Capped Pencil free with a pen (to see ads & Proxy). | |
| 1931 07 15 | Parker Duofold Combo pen-pencil market test . | |
| 1931 07 18 | Filed patent US1916808. Desk set socket KP. | |
| 1931 07 31 | Visit of 3 days Prince and Princess Svasty and Prince Arjuna. Incident in the Verville. | |
| 1931 09 11 | Anti advertising meeting (KP Journal). | |
| 1931 10 00 | Kenneth Parker, after selling the Verville to Liberty Magazine, acquired a powerful 4 place cabin monoplane Stinson Junior SM-8A. | |
| 1931 11 09 | Committe Executive decided 1932 first quarter advertising only by $75.000 (KP Journal). | |
| 1931 12 00 | Parker Gift Emsemble containing Quink. | |
| 1932 00 00 | the company purchased a building on Toronto, University Avenue. | |
| 1932 00 00 | Pen-Parker desk. | |
| 1932 01 14 | New Low-Priced Duettes. Parkergrams Introduction of Parker (Moderne in GB) $3.75 sets. in three colors—green and gold, onyx, bronze and blue. Introduction of Parker (Premiere in GB) $5.00 sets in grey and red, blue and black, and mahogany and white. | |
| 1932 01 30 | Decided to purchase Dahlberg patent $ 20,500 cash. KP’s Journal. | |
| 1932 02 00 | Introduction Pen-Parker modernistic pen desk base. | |
| 1932 02 01 | Filed patent US1892181. Desk set Pen-Parker. Ivan Tefft. | |
| 1932 05 00 | Many money-saving efforts marked much of 1932 for Kenneth. The housekeeper/cook at home was released. The gardener was let go. | |
| 1932 06 28 | A fire into the hangar of the Janesville City airport destroyed the KP Stinson and other 5 planes. Only the Stinson of Kenneth Parker was covered by insurance. | |
| 1932 07 summer | Parco sets. | |
| 1932 08 07 | Stevens—Maloney of Chicago 15 sales Vacuum Filler. | |
| 1932 08 24 | Kenneth wires that the boys are taking hold of the new sales program the trade-in and the PARKER Golden Arrow (vacuum filler.) – in great shape. (Proxy). | |
| 1932 09 01 | Filed designs US89815/6 Ivan Teff, ¿First idea for Vacuum filler shape? | |
| 1932 09 07 | Filed design patent USD89449. Ringed celluloid in vacumatic. Russell Parker. | |
| 1932 09 26 | Filed patent US1950364. Improvement in Christmas feed. Edward Moore. | |
| 1932 10 05 | “The complete line of Golden Arrow samples in the special Deluxe carrying case will be ready today and your samples should reach you on Saturday at the latest.” Proxy. | |
| 1932 10 06 | Filed patent US1980508. Vacumatic improvement. Ivan Tefft. | |
| 1932 11 04 | KP. Pfanstiehl came to check up and tell us whether we are safe to ship Vacuum Fillers. He thinks they are now OK – its a pity he wasn’t on payroll 3 weeks or 3 months ago. Tefft very jealous about him. | |
| 1932 11 05 | Pfanstiehl made a deal with GSP and KP $300 a month for 4 months. | |
| 1932 11 09 | Start shipment Vacuum Filler (Proxy). About December 1 we made initial shipments of our new Vacuum Filler Parker Pen (Annual Fiscal Report). | |
| 1932 12 07 | GSP in Proxy say: the barrel and cap for the PARKER VACUUM FILLER were designed for us by Mr. Joseph Platt. | |
| 1933 01 08 | Russell Parker died. Aged 39. (2:15 h. KP Journal). | |
| 1933 01 30 | George and Martha took a long holiday in Jamaica to rest and relax in the Caribbean sun. | |
| 1933 02 01 | Woolworth business preparations getting rather involved (KP Journal). | |
| 1933 02 07 | Pfanstiehl up today making good progress on Woolworth nib (KP Journal). | |
| 1933 03 01 | First order from Woolworth for Safford pens. A whopping 164,000 units. (KP). 5th Avenue?? Parker made no profit other than the satisfaction derived from providing jobs at a time when few were available. The nibs (pen points) were made of ordinary brass. They had no hard-tipped writing surface. Clips and decorative bands were also of plain, unprotected brass. | |
| 1933 03 15 | KP with Stinson and Babe Meigs in Janesville. It was gorgeous flying again ! | |
| 1933 03 18 | Vacuum Filler ad in SEP (opaque barrel). | |
| 1933 03 27 | KP meeting with Morrisey, LAC et al decided on $5 Vacuum Filler. Kenneth’s Journal. | |
| 1933 06 10 | First ad with 3 rings cap and Junior. | |
| 1933 09 02 | To see ink visibility barrel. | |
| 1934 02 02 | Lunch with the Wrights and others in his house. (KP Journal). | |
| 1934 03 00 | Parker still working for Woolworth (Philip Hull Memoirs). | |
| 1934 03 22 | Filed patent US2037177. “vacumatic” Twist filler. No used. | |
| 1934 01 13 | Filed patent US2005752. Method for pointing nib. Carl Pfanstiehl. | |
| 1934 01 18 | Filed patent US1989351. Transparent barrel in Vacumatic. Lucius Crowell. | |
| 1934 03 15 | Filed patent US2035378. Vacumatic threated section. | |
| 1934 03 16 | Filed patent US1985643. Vacumatic improvement. Nipple in diaphragm. Carl Pfanstiehl. | |
| 1934 06 06 | Palmer remains shareholders (I suposse his son because William F. Palmer was dead in this time) and Parker shares have passed to Lucius Crowell’s propierty in Century Pen Co. | |
| 1934 08 06 | Filed patent US2031343. “vacumatic” Twist filler. No used. | |
| 1934 09 08 | Filed patent US2035372 One-stroke vacuum filler. No used. Eye! To see Sheaffer’S patent date. | |
| 1936 | Trip to China The Mysterious Yangtze. | |
| 1936 08 12 | Filed patent US2110007. Sealomatic desk set. | |
| 1936 09 25 | Filed patent US2096044. Wrapping celluloid. | |
| 1937 00 00 | 1040 employees included Canada (H. Morrissey). | |
| 1937 03 13 | Kenneth Parker, accompanied by Frank Matthay of the same company arrived in Shanghai this week (The China Weekly Review). | |
| 1937 03 18 | Filed patent design USD107708. Challenger Sword clip. | |
| 1937 06 07 | Filed patent US2187528. Russell Wing. Parker “51” collector origin. | |
| 1937 07 19 | Geo. S. Parker died. | |
| 1938 01 24 | Written agreement with the Parker Pen Company and Russell Wing covering all existing inventions, and all future inventions, called improvements. | |
| 1938 10 26 | Dissolution of Century Pen Co. | |
| 1939 00 00 | Kenneth arrives in Coamow ship.. | |
| 1939 01 06 | Filed patent US2223541 Parker “51”. Marlin S. Baker. | |
| 1939 08 08 | Filed patent design USD116097. Parker “51” outline. Kenneth Parker & Marlin S. Baker. | |
| 1939 11 13 | Filed patent US2267147. Process for manufacturing Parker “51” nibs. Marlin S. Baker. | |
| 1940 00 00 | Parker “51” appeared in a few places in Brazil. | |
| 1940 07 26 | Filed patent US2278907. Cap “51” and improvements. Marlin S. Baker | |
| 1940 09 09 | Filed patent US2264975. Alloy for tip nibs. Milton R. Pickus. | |
| 1940 12 00 | The management and employees of the Parker donated £5,000 of their pay sheet thus joining the Spitfire Founds campaign launched by Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Aircraft production. The money contributed towards the construction of Spitfire Mk Vb serial number AD384, RY-Z, which was built at Castle Bromwich, and named “Geo S Parker”. | |
| 1941 00 00 | Parker “51”. | |
| 1941 01 10 | Filed patent US2286878. Adjustable pencil eraser. | |
| 1941 03 31 | Filed patent US2308658. Apparatus for tipping nibs. | |
| 1941 05 00 | First Munitions Contract. | |
| 1941 10 03 | Filed patent US2282840. Wing. Feed Collector for open nibs. There are Parker vacumatic prototypes with this collector. | |
| 1941 12 15 | Filed patent US2339079. Apparatus for tipping nibs. | |
| 1941 12 19 | Filed patent US2328580. Ruthenium tip nibs. Milton R. Pickus. | |
| 1942 07 02 | Filed patent US2308810. Pen Desk set socket. | |
| 1943 02 26 | Parker and Wing entered into a written agreement with W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company for Triumph nib use. Sheaffer would pay Parker $25,000.00, and shall pay to Wing royalties on each fountain pen sold. | |
| 1943 10 29 | Army-Navy “E” Award. | |
| 1943 12 29 | Filed patent US2386500. Magnetic desk set base. KP. | |
| 1944 04 10 | Filed patent US2360297. Wing feed improvement. | |
| 1944 04 16 | Filed patent US2398531 Parker “51” improvement. | |
| 1944 06 02 | Filed patent US2387001. Variation Parker “51”. Marlin Baker. | |
| 1944 06 10 | Star for “E” Flag. | |
| 1944 07 00 | Fennimore Plant opened. | |
| 1944 10 12 | Filed patent US2400768. Parker “51” improvement. | |
| 1945 00 00 | 1040 employees included Canada and 174 of Fennimore (H. Morrissey). | |
| 1945 05 07 | German surrender signed with two Parker “51”. | |
| 1945 07 00 | Parker Pen Co. acquired the Parker “51” Express, a Cessna AT17 twin-engine adapted for civil aviation as T-50, predictably bought through the Surplus Property Board program, conducted by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. who in those months after the end of the WWII offered for sale more than 20,000 warplanes. | |
| 1946 03 00 | The company acquired a Beechcraft D18S twin-engine, serial A-113, whose production had started late 1945, the first to be issued to any post-war aircraft. Registered in the Civil Aeronautics Administration with license number NC-5151 as tribute to Parker “51” fountain pen. | |
| 1946 08 00 | Purchase building in Menomonie for Quink production. | |
| 1947 01 01 | Parker and Wing entered into a written agreement with Waterman. | |
| 1948 08 23 | Filed patent US2612867 Parker 51 Aerometric. Marlin Baker. “The sac may be compressed manually or by suitable mechanism but preferably a pressure bar 25 is provided for compressing the sac” . | |
| 1952 03 00 | Parker Pen Company incorporated a converted Navy Lockheed Ventura PV-1 bomber into its fleet. Pilot Lee Haynes and copilot Bob Hansen belonged to the Parker employee staff. The Parker Lockheed Ventura was luxuriously converted for civil use by Remmet-Werner of St. Louis, Mi. Its luxurious and comfortable interior, designed by famous expert Maria Bergson of famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss´ office. | |
| 1953 | Arrow Park | |
| 1953 09 23 | 4,000 persons jammed Arrow Park’s to tour the first day of two-day open house. | |
