Parker 51 Lined Sterling Rescue

This cap was in such terrible condition that its owner sent it to me so I could use its inner cap for another pen; he described it as looking “like it's been run over by a sheep’s-foot packer.” I don’t even know if that’s a machine or an occupation, but the cap was not pretty.

There was a lot of peeling rhodium plating scattered around, and dozens of dents, which were accumulating black tarnish. I couldn’t make this a like-new cap, but I did manage to make it presentable, I would say..

 

 


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